Melissa Joan Hart was fired twice in a single evening throughout “one of many worst days” of her life.
Melissa Joan Hart was as soon as ‘fired’ twice in a single evening
The 49-year-old actress has recalled attending the 1999 Drive Me Loopy premiere with Britney Spears after being instructed she had been pulled from Scary Film in favour of Carmen Electra, earlier than discovering out Sabrina, The Teenage Witch bosses had been firing her over a Maxim journal cowl shoot.
Showing on the Betches YouTube channel, Melissa revealed she was planning to skip the screening and secretly drive in a limousine as much as Vancouver to movie the horror comedy Scream spoof.
Nevertheless, she stated: “I used to be imagined to be this small half at first, that is just like the Drew Barrymore knockoff half, however they determined once I did the [prior] becoming that I did not have sufficiently big boobs for that half.
“I bought a name and it was like, ‘Flip round, return to your premiere. You have been fired from the film.’
“And I used to be like, alright, a minimum of I get to hang around right here.”
Nevertheless, as soon as she arrived on the premiere she acquired one other setback attributable to her latest racy Maxim cowl shoot, the place she appeared topless with a bedsheet masking her chest.
She added: “So I used to be already crying and ready for everybody to complete the film and are available on over.
“And after they get there, my lawyer meets up with me [at the premiere] and says, ‘Due to your cowl of Maxim journal, you are being fired out of your present.’
“So then I actually begin crying, after which my dad comes and hugs me, and I do not see my dad typically so, like, for him to hug me. I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, my dad’s hugging me!’ It was only a dramatic evening.”
On the podcast, she was taking a look at a photograph of herself with Britney Spears – whose music Drive Me Loopy featured on the soundtrack for the movie of the identical title – on the premiere.
She stated: “For those who take a look at my eyes, they’re very bloodshot as a result of this was what I’d take into account, in the event you learn my guide, one of many worst days of my life on the time.”
Fortunately for Melissa, she held onto the function of Sabrina, with the sitcom later shifting from ABC to The WB after 4 seasons.
In the meantime, she not too long ago recalled turning down a suggestion to pose for Playboy following the Maxim shoot.
She instructed the Sibling Rivalry podcast: “I did Maxim journal and he and my father had been each being tortured by individuals at work going like ‘Have a look at your daughter! Have a look at your sister!’
“After which Playboy journal got here and requested me to do one thing, and I used to be like, ‘I can not do it.’
“‘I can not do it’, and so they provided me some huge cash, and I used to be like, ‘I can not do it as a result of I do not need my brother to be harm… the very last thing he wants. He is already getting tortured by me and underwear.’ “
