Melissa Joan Hart is opening up in regards to the sequence of occasions that led to her teary-eyed photograph with Britney Spears on the 1999 Drive Me Loopy premiere.
The actress appeared as a visitor on the Pod Meets World podcast this week, the place she shared that on the day of the premiere, she came upon that her her resolution to pose in Maxim journal almost received her fired from her iconic tv present, Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
On the Drive Me Loopy premiere, which Hart calls the “worst day of my life,” she was approached by her lawyer. “My lawyer reveals up and goes, ‘You probably did a photograph shoot for Maxim journal?’” she mentioned. “I’m like, ‘Sure, I did.’ They’re like, ‘Properly, you’re being sued and fired out of your present. So don’t speak to the press. Don’t do something.’”
She mentioned that her mother and producer then gave her a cellphone name, questioning her in regards to the Maxim shoot and telling her that she’s going to get booted from the sitcom for posing in her underwear. As she was crying, Hart’s dad — who she says was not usually the “heat and cuddly” sort — was there for her with a hug. “I’m like crying even tougher as a result of my daddy’s hugging me,” she continued. “I’m being fired from my present. I used to be simply fired from the film. I simply broke up with my boyfriend.”
Amid the chaos, Hart posed for a photograph with Spears, who recorded her hit, “(You Drive Me) Loopy,” for the movie’s soundtrack. Fortunately, “nothing got here” of the scrutiny for the Maxim shoot and Hart continued taking part in Sabrina. “However after all, within the second, I didn’t know what was occurring,” she recalled.
The threats of kicking her off the present had “no grounds to face on” legally, because the journal had used her character identify on the quilt as a substitute of Hart’s precise identify with out approval, which is what induced the confusion. “What occurred was the journal wrote ‘Sabrina, your favourite witch with out [a stitch]…’” Hart defined. “I’d by no means heard of somebody being on the quilt of {a magazine} and never utilizing their identify, they used Sabrina.”
She continued, “In my Archie Comics contract, it mentioned I’d by no means play the character [of Sabrina] bare… so right here they had been pondering I’m in breach as a result of I’m taking part in the character. That was presupposed to be me selling my film, it wasn’t presupposed to be a personality. I had no management over what they wrote on the quilt.”
Take heed to the total episode of Pod Meets World right here.
