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Melissa Joan Hart revealed that she erstwhile was acrophobic that she would beryllium fired from Sabrina: The Teenage Witch for posing topless connected the screen of Maxim in 1999. The actress, 47, admitted that she got a terrifying telephone telephone from her lawyer portion attending a enactment for the movie Drive Me Crazy on an occurrence of Pod Meets World. She showed a photograph with Britney Spears from the afterparty, wherever she’d been crying and opened up astir her affectional day. “At the time, I thought this was similar the worst time of my life,” she said.
Melissa said portion astatine the afterparty, her lawyer told her that the Maxim shoot would bring her clip connected the amusement to an end. “My lawyer shows up and goes, ‘You did a photoshoot for Maxim Magazine?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, I did.’ They’re like, ‘Well you’re being sued and fired from your show. So, don’t speech to the press. Don’t bash anything,'” she recalled.
She past said her ma and shaper called to inquire what had happened, and she explained that she conscionable did “Whatever my publicist told maine to bash astatine the photoshoot.” She said, “I did a photoshoot for Maxim! It’s Maxim! Of course, you’re going to beryllium successful your underwear.”
Melissa opened up astir her ‘Maxim’ sprout successful a caller ‘Pod Meets World’ interview. (Shutterstock)
The Clarissa Explains It All actress said she started crying, and her dad met her aft the party. Amid each the confusion, she said that helium asked however she was doing. “He hugs me, and I’m crying adjacent harder, due to the fact that my daddy’s hugging. I’m being fired from my show. I was conscionable fired from the movie [Scary Movie]. I conscionable broke up with my boyfriend,” she said.
Ultimately though, the scare turned retired to not beryllium anything. Boy Meets World star Will Friedle asked if the incidental happened arsenic the amusement was ending, and Melissa said it wasn’t. “Nothing happened. Nothing came of it, but of course, successful the moment, I didn’t cognize what was going on,” she said.
Melissa revealed she was frightened that she’d beryllium fired from ‘Sabrina’ successful 1999. (Bob D’Amico/Abc/Viacom/Kobal/Shutterstock)
Obviously the amusement didn’t end, and Melissa went connected to proceed starring in Sabrina until the series’ finale successful 2003. More recently, the amusement inspired the spin-off, the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, from 2018 to 2020. The reboot featured Kiernan Shipka arsenic Sabrina.
