Melissa Joan Hart is reflecting on “one of many worst days” of her life.
The “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star opened up in regards to the incident – and the way Britney Spears was concerned – whereas taking a look at footage from the highs and lows of her practically 40-year profession earlier this month.
“Aw! Me and Britney!” Hart, 49, started whereas exhibiting off a snap of her and the pop star on the New York Metropolis premiere of “Drive Me Loopy” in 1999.
“In the event you have a look at my eyes, they’re very bloodshot as a result of this was what I’d take into account, for those who learn my guide, one of many worst days of my life on the time,” she continued.
The teenager rom-com, which took its title from Spears’ hit track “(You Drive Me) Loopy,” starred Hart and Adrian Grenier as neighbors who grew to become unlikely dates.
Hart, nevertheless, needed to depart the premiere early as a result of she was due in Canada to movie a scene for “Scary Film” – till she wasn’t.
“We did the press collectively, after which we went inside to observe the film, however I used to be really flying to Vancouver to shoot the film,” she defined. “I used to be imagined to be the small half to start with, that’s just like the Drew Barrymore knockoff half.”
“They determined after I did the becoming that I didn’t have large enough boobs,” Hart added.
The “Clarissa Explains It All” alum revealed that she was already on her option to the airport when she discovered she had been handed over for the “Scary Film” function that will in the end go to Carmen Electra.
“I’m driving to the airport, and again in these days, you had the mobile phone within the limo, and I obtained a name, and it was like, ‘Flip round, return to your premiere. You’ve been fired from the film,’” she recalled.
“And I used to be like, all proper, a minimum of I get to hang around there,” Hart added.
To make issues worse, the actress then discovered that she had been “fired” from “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” shortly after returning to the premiere of “Drive Me Loopy.”
“My lawyer meets up with me first and says, ‘Due to your cowl of Maxim journal, you’re being fired out of your present,’” Hart, who appeared on the duvet of Maxim’s October 1999 problem, remembered.
“I actually begin crying, after which my dad comes and hugs me,” she shared. “I don’t see my dad typically, so for him to hug me? I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, my dad’s hugging me.’ It was only a dramatic night time.”
However regardless of being instructed she was let go from the favored WB sitcom, Hart was really not fired and continued to star because the titular Sabrina Spellman till it ended 4 seasons later in 2003.
The “Melissa & Joey” alum beforehand opened up about what she known as “one of many worst days” of her life throughout an look on the “Pod Meets World” podcast again in 2023.
On the time, she credited the backlash from her Maxim journal cowl with serving to “Drive Me Loopy” gross practically triple its funds.
“Can Melissa be attractive? She’s 23 — is she allowed to be attractive? What’s occurring right here? Is it allowed? Is it OK? Why is she being fired from her present? And all of the drama,” she mirrored.
“It made for ‘Drive Me Loopy’ to return out and be an enormous success,” Hart concluded.
