Melissa Joan Hart of the television collection “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” strolls the red rug throughout 90s Con on March 18, 2023 in Hartford, Connecticut. Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images
Melissa Joan Hart is opening up regarding the series of occasions that resulted in her weepy picture with Britney Spears at the 1999 Drive Me Crazy best.
The starlet looked like a visitor on the Pod Meets World podcast today, where she shared that on the day of the best, she figured out that her her choice to pose in Maxim magazine virtually obtained her discharged from her renowned tv program, Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
At the Drive Me Crazy best, which Hart calls the “worst day of my life,” she was come close to by her attorney. “My lawyer shows up and goes, ‘You did a photo shoot for Maxim magazine?’” she stated. “I’m like, ‘Yes, I did.’ They’re like, ‘Well, you’re being sued and fired from your show. So don’t talk to the press. Don’t do anything.’”
She stated that her mother as well as manufacturer after that offered her a telephone call, examining her regarding the Maxim shoot as well as informing her that she will certainly obtain started from the comedy for presenting in her undergarments. As she was weeping, Hart’s daddy — that she states was not normally the “warm and cuddly” kind — was there for her with a hug. “I’m like crying even harder because my daddy’s hugging me,” she proceeded. “I’m being fired from my show. I was just fired from the movie. I just broke up with my boyfriend.”
Amid the mayhem, Hart positioned for a picture with Spears, that videotaped her hit, “(You Drive Me) Crazy,” for the movie’s soundtrack. Thankfully, “nothing came” of the examination for the Maxim shoot as well as Hart proceeded having fun Sabrina. “But of course, in the moment, I didn’t know what was going on,” she remembered.
The dangers of kicking her off the program had “no grounds to stand on” lawfully, as the publication had actually utilized her personality name on the cover rather than Hart’s real name without authorization, which is what created the complication. “What happened was the magazine wrote ‘Sabrina, your favorite witch without [a stitch]…’” Hart discussed. “I’d never heard of someone being on the cover of a magazine and not using their name, they used Sabrina.”
She proceeded, “In my Archie Comics contract, it said I would never play the character [of Sabrina] naked… so here they were thinking I’m in breach because I’m playing the character. That was supposed to be me promoting my movie, it wasn’t supposed to be a character. I had no control over what they wrote on the cover.”
Listen fully episode of Pod Meets World here.
