Maitland Ward Criticizes Sydney Sweeney's OnlyFans Scenes in Euphoria Season Three

Former Disney star Maitland Ward criticized Sydney Sweeney's portrayal of an OnlyFans model in season three of Euphoria.

The 49-year-old former Boy Meets World actress, now an adult film star and OnlyFans creator, spoke to TMZ about Sweeney's character Cassie. Ward objected to scenes showing Cassie with a pacifier in her mouth, hair in pigtails, legs spread open and wearing sheer clothing.

"There's all sorts of stuff that you can't do," Ward said. "The whole child-baby thing is so disgusting. You just can't go into that whole underage thing like that. I mean, you can do it to an extent if it's very, very playful, like, you're an adult being childlike or something. But just the way it was handled was so gross, and it's just disgusting and vile."

Ward said the scenes violate OnlyFans guidelines. "You don't want pedophilia anywhere near pornography," she told TMZ. Creators risk getting kicked off the platform for such violations.

In Euphoria's third season, Cassie turns to OnlyFans to pay for her wedding. She continues after learning her husband, Nate Jacobs played by Jacob Elordi, is broke and owes millions shortly after their marriage.

Viewers see Cassie dressed as a baby. She also appears as a dog drinking from a bowl, wears a low-cut polka dot bodysuit while jumping rope, uses a sex toy on herself, mails used underwear to subscribers and sucks her own toe in a video.

Ward said the show makes fun of OnlyFans creators rather than celebrating them. "It's saying how weird and creepy they are," she insisted. "There's so many creators who are really working hard to build their brands every day, and this is really disingenuous."

Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Ward.

As a former child actress, Ward shared her Hollywood experiences in an episode of Investigation Discovery's Hollywood Demons. She told Fox News Digital in an April exclusive that recounting her story felt therapeutic at her current age.

Ward found fame as Jessica Forrester in The Bold and the Beautiful and later as Rachel McGuire in the 1990s Disney show Boy Meets World. Studios wanted to mold young actors into what they thought audiences would like, she said.

"I think it was such a factory kind of environment. Like you were just a product being sold, and you knew that yourself," Ward told Fox News Digital. "I mean, I didn't think anything was wrong at the time with anything that was going on, really. I mean, it felt ill at ease in my own body and all my feelings and stuff, but I thought that was just me being stupid. I have to be professional. I have to be part of that Hollywood machine. And that's really what it was."

Ward began starring in adult films about seven years ago. In a March 2025 interview with Fox News Digital, she said she receives more respect in Hollywood since the switch.

"I didn't get anybody coming out hating me for it or anything," she said. "I really got a lot of positivity overall, which shocked everyone I knew. Everybody thought people were just going to rip me apart, and I was going to be judged and raked across the coals, but I got so much positivity and I think it's because I was so positive about it, and I was so happy about it."