The actress was unsuccessful in her bid for the role on the sitcom at first but was asked back to read the script again by director David Trainer before ultimately being cast in the beloved ABC show, which aired from 1993 to 2000.

However, Fishel, now aged 41, has revealed that she endured a rather unpleasant first day during rehearsals on set at the hands of the show’s creator, Michael Jacobs.

“I had never been a part of his marathon notes session. This was my first one because it was my very first week,” Fishel said during an appearance on the Pod Meets World podcast alongside Trainer.

“Michael starts off the notes by saying, ‘Danielle, I’m going to give you your notes all at one time, at the end and I’m going to give everyone else their notes now, because if I made everyone sit here through all of the notes I had for you, we would all be here for hours and no one would ever get to go home. So you’re just going to wait for the end.’”

Fishel, who was just 12 at the time, said that this humiliating experience caused her to become upset in front of her castmates.

“From that moment on, my eyes welled up because you know, I’m now in front of everybody—all the producers, all the writers, all the cast and all eyes are on me for a second,” she said.

She went on to say that Jacobs’ criticisms on that day caused her to sweat when recalling them to this day, nearly 30 years later.

“What I know specifically was said is, ‘All I know is, if you don’t come back tomorrow doing this entirely differently, you are also not going to be here,’ referencing the girl I had replaced,” she added.

Trainer joined in the conversation to say that such behavior from Jacobs was “disgusting.”

“I worked for Michael for years on multiple shows. This is a hateful story,” Trainer said. “There’s many wonderful things about him, but there’s hateful things. This is one. To hear this, you’re sweating? I’m really pissed. It’s enough to make me want to sign off of this podcast. I don’t want to be associated with anything that guy is associated with. This is just not how you do things. I’m glad it became a hit, but this is disgusting.”

Trainer added: “Everybody who worked with Michael understood, implicitly or explicitly, whenever Michael lurched to one side of the boat, everybody went to the other side to keep it from going under … The job was—and that’s why I hated it ultimately—was to do your job but to also prevent swamping and drowning.”

Despite his harsh methods, Fishel went on to say that Jacobs praised her the next day.

“Let’s give Danielle a round of applause, you did exactly what I asked of you. Thank you, thank you. Congratulations, it was wonderful,” she recalled him saying.

Newsweek has contacted a representative for Jacobs for comment.