A POPULAR 90s star has revealed she nearly lost her TV and big movie gigs after posing for NSFW photos.
Melissa Joan Hart opened up about her experience on Monday’s installment of the Pod Meets World podcast.
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The topic arose when co-host Danielle Fishel, 42, referenced a throwback photo of Melissa, 47, at the New York premiere of her 1999 hit film, Drive Me Crazy.
It appeared to surface some feelings for the child star, who recalled a heartbreaking story that happened that night.
“At the time, I thought this was the worst day of my life,” Melissa told Danielle and her co-hosts, Rider Strong, 43, and Will Friedle, 47.
She went on to detail the tragic events that unfolded, including her almost getting fired from numerous jobs over a steamy photoshoot.
SCARY LAWSUIT
“As soon as the movie started, I was whisked away in a limo. I was supposed to go shoot the movie, Scary Movie, in Vancouver, [Canada]…
“I was put in the limo and taken away, and I had just broken up with my boyfriend while we were in the movie, and I’m like crying, and I’m upset.”
Melissa then revealed: “I get a call in the limo on one of those phones, and they’re like, ‘You’ve been fired from the movie. You can go back to your party.'”
The Nickelodeon alum explained that she then went to a party at Planet Hollywood, where she learned the reason for her supposed firing.
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“My lawyer shows up and goes, ‘You did a photo shoot for Maxim magazine?’ I was like, ‘Yes, I did.’ And they’re like, ‘Well, you’re being sued and fired from your show. So, don’t talk to the press, don’t do anything.'”
The Clarissa Explains It All alum confessed: “I did a photoshoot for Maxim, it’s Maxim. Of course, you’re gonna be in your underwear.”
CAREER MISHAP
Will then asked Melissa if that was the end of her run on the widely successful sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which she starred in from 1993 to 2003.
“No, nothing came of it, but, of course, in the moment, I didn’t know what was going on,” Melissa admitted. “And what happened was they had no ground to stand on.”
The Melissa and Joey star explained the lawsuit was because Maxim used her character’s name, Sabrina, on the racy cover photo, instead of her real name.
Melissa posed topless, with just a black thong and a white towel covering her breasts in the pic for the men’s magazine.
The association of her TV character’s name with the shoot apparently breached her Archie comic contract that said she’d “never play the character naked.”
Despite not going ahead with her role in Scary Movie, Melissa said everything was sorted out after she wrote an apology letter, and her jobs were not affected.
Melissa’s career continued to soar as an actress and producer with a number of film and TV credits.
Aside from acting, the mom of three launched a clothing line with her husband, Mark Wilkerson, 46, called King of Harts and was the former owner of a candy shop called SweetHarts.
She also became the first celebrity to win the grand prize of $1million on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune on October 17, 2021.
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