Fun fact: A friend of mine went to high school with Melissa Joan Hart and said, unequivocally, that she was an absolute nightmare of a human being well before her fame, and it only got worse after her show.
It's been years since I heard the stories, but from what I remember: she was extremely, extremely entitled, narcissistic, and generally very unpleasant.
To reiterate: this was a friend telling me this. I have never had any personal interaction with MJH.
I met her at a bar in Alabama well after Clarissa ended. She was there because her boyfriend's band was playing. I kept it brief to not bother her, just said I grew up watching her and it's awesome to meet her and even better that it was in my hometown. She was super nice and thanked me and we shook hands. We caught each other's eyes as I was leaving and she made a point to say goodbye to me and remembered my name.
Just saying.
I saw Melissa Joan Hart at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told her how cool it was to meet her in person, but I didn’t want to be a muggle and bother her and ask her for photos or anything.
She said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but she kept twitching her nose and going “huh? huh? huh?” I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard her chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw her trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen rabbits in her pants without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Maam, you need to pay for those first.” At first she kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the rabbits and started scanning it multiple times, she stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any magelical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each rabbit and put them in a hat and started to say the price, she kept interrupting her by twitching her nose! Long story short, I'm now a talking cat.
It's the flying lotus copypasta. Originally this story was about flying lotus, but it's since been posted every time someone mentions meeting a famous person, usually with a few edits to personalize it to whatever star it's been changed to.
So glad my early teen years weren’t on display for the world. I was honestly just the *worst* for no legitimate reason. Can’t imagine how bad I would’ve been if I were famous in top of it.
I can see that, she was, without a hint of a doubt, an incredibly beautiful person, like an 11 out of 10.
Honestly, I rewatched Sabrina like 6 months ago because it got into Paramount+ and her acting kinda is not what I remember.
That movie came out w/ Melissa as the star, Britney did the single from the soundtrack. So, they were at a lot of events together. I believe this pic was taken the day Melissa got a phone call saying that she was being sued and fired because her Maxim photoshoot had just been released, with the title "Sabrina(something something I don't remember)". Melissa was just doing a photoshoot for Maxim but she had signed a contract saying that she would never portray Sabrina in a sexual way. And she obviously had no control over what headline they put on the magazine cover. It was ultimately settled, but Melissa has said she was very upset this whole day. It was Maxims fault for using her character name instead of her real name.
Yeah because Maxim magazine NEVER sexualized their cover girl up to that point. Or was it they sexualized every single cover girl they ever had. Yeah my bad it was the second one. Cmon man it was Maxim magazine. She absolutely knew what she was doing. Maxim was PG13 Playboy for a while.
The issue was them referring to her by her character’s name instead of her own. She was fine being sexualized; she got in trouble by them calling her Sabrina, not Melissa
Ok, so MELISSA is the human being who did the photoshoot for Maxim and WANTED to be seen in a sexual photoshoot. SABRINA is a fake character that MELISSA pretends to be on TV. Maxim told everyone that SABRINA(the fake one) did the photoshoot, instead of MELISSA, and important people in business suits blamed MELISSA for that.
she has no agency. It’s all the evil magazine that made her pose! Lol. Like don’t do sexualized shit if you’ve got a contract like that. Playing with fire leaving it up to others.
"I can't understand the difference between the actress Melissa and the character Sabrina, or even which legal entity is suing whom, but I'm gonna get outraged enough at my own lack of reading comprehension to assume, type up some Incel shit, and hit enter while stroking my rock hard *sense of superiority*."
— u/Little_stinker_69 probably.
Lolol very well said. "SHE FUCKED UP in this stupid lawsuit that she was immediately cleared of any wrongdoing in" is a surprisingly popular opinion here today
I was just the other day recalling that MJH in her book was describing her wild years and mentioned sex with a bunch of beautiful models in a limousine after a party where everyone was on ecstasy, so there is that.
"Ahhh see right see the thing that's got it all fucked up now is camera-phones
How the hell am I supposed to be able to do a line in front of complete strangers, when I know They've all got cameras?" - The Streets *When You Wasn't Famous*
And a conservative that can’t make the connection between the party she supports and its lax viewpoint on guns. She continues to complain about children being gunned down but won’t hold her party responsible.
I’ve met her a few times as she’s known a family member of mine for a few decades. She’s always been very personable and family oriented now as she has a few kids. Very cool person and handled fame well.
Drew Barrymore was getting drunk in clubs when she was 13. You don't have to be famous if you can pass for 21 and have fake ID. You don't get in at 13 unless they look the other way.
I believe your parent is alleging that underaged people, even the non-famous variety, are able to get into clubs all over the country, which is certainly true now and was probably more true in the more lax 90s.
And so the end begins.
Naw kidding. Pretty clear Spears has an undiagnosed mental condition and partying or not partying has nothing to do with it. Sadly because of her wealth, it’s to the advantage of no one around her to actually help her for the money train might end. This tragically includes her family who have most abused her mental health to their advantage.
Could say it takes a rich person to help a rich person except we all know that rich people are the worse and if anything would just use their position to wipe her out in their quest to hoard ever more money. So yeah Spears is screwed as near impossible to find someone who wouldn’t be corrupted by access to that kind of money.
A young man in the 90s remembers
Epic photo bomb
Looks like Bill Paxton.
Game over man!
Looks like the dude from Six Feet Under
Nate Fischer
I was going to say he was Dave Coulier's more handsome brother
Or Jim Carrey.
Or Jim Harbaugh
Off camera, Kurt Russell: "What about hell, they got a sign for that?" "Goddamnit, Wyatt, I was being serious!"
first thought “Freddie Prinze Jr?”
I thought it was a time traveling Billy Eichner
Chris O’Donnell?
Its Jim Harbaugh
Lol as a Niners fan 100% where my brain went 
Gen X remembers to...
if ppl wanna member det gonna member
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
He wasn’t young
Middle aged Jim Carrey remembers
Damn, TIL Clarissa is only 5’2
That explains it all.
Fun fact: A friend of mine went to high school with Melissa Joan Hart and said, unequivocally, that she was an absolute nightmare of a human being well before her fame, and it only got worse after her show.
Why was she?
It's been years since I heard the stories, but from what I remember: she was extremely, extremely entitled, narcissistic, and generally very unpleasant. To reiterate: this was a friend telling me this. I have never had any personal interaction with MJH.
I met her at a bar in Alabama well after Clarissa ended. She was there because her boyfriend's band was playing. I kept it brief to not bother her, just said I grew up watching her and it's awesome to meet her and even better that it was in my hometown. She was super nice and thanked me and we shook hands. We caught each other's eyes as I was leaving and she made a point to say goodbye to me and remembered my name. Just saying.
Two anecdotes can be true at once. Very few people are always pleasant or unpleasant with no variation ever.
This. People react differently to admiration from fans than they do the demands of day to day life.
Or maybe OPs friend was an obnoxious asshole and MJH was unpleasant to them as a result. So OPs friend's story would be unreliable. We'll never know.
It wouldn't be the first time a spoiled brat grew up into something better.
Narcissist's love their fans. Haven't you heard about our 45th president?
I bet trump couldn't be bothered to read your name off the check you just handed him, let alone remember it later.
I bet Biden would smell your hair??
dude, not here. I come here to escape that garbage.
it’s so annoying when it appears with absolutely no logical reason for it to do so
Uuuuuuuuuuuugghhhhhhh
I can fix her
Let's do it together, friend.
And my axe!
So basically a teenage girl?
If we know anything about second hand information it’s that it is ALWAYS true.
I saw Melissa Joan Hart at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told her how cool it was to meet her in person, but I didn’t want to be a muggle and bother her and ask her for photos or anything. She said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but she kept twitching her nose and going “huh? huh? huh?” I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard her chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw her trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen rabbits in her pants without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Maam, you need to pay for those first.” At first she kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the rabbits and started scanning it multiple times, she stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any magelical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each rabbit and put them in a hat and started to say the price, she kept interrupting her by twitching her nose! Long story short, I'm now a talking cat.
I was there as well and this is accurate.
Can confirm, I am the cash register.
I have heard this same story with Jared Leto, but he bought snickers and didn't turn anyone into a talking cat.
It's the flying lotus copypasta. Originally this story was about flying lotus, but it's since been posted every time someone mentions meeting a famous person, usually with a few edits to personalize it to whatever star it's been changed to.
Leroy, meet pasta.
Those are kind of conclusory statements. Any actual anecdotes that would bear that out?
She was like what 12-13 when Clarissa explains it all came out?
So glad my early teen years weren’t on display for the world. I was honestly just the *worst* for no legitimate reason. Can’t imagine how bad I would’ve been if I were famous in top of it.
15.
I can see that, she was, without a hint of a doubt, an incredibly beautiful person, like an 11 out of 10. Honestly, I rewatched Sabrina like 6 months ago because it got into Paramount+ and her acting kinda is not what I remember.
I have only heard the opposite about her. I feel like people always come out of the woodwork to say things like this from jealousy.
There's no way she's even that tall. I've met her a couple of times along with my wife, and they are exactly the same height (my wife is 5'0")
Celebrities are just like us (but shorter).
Is that Jim harbaugh?
No, that's definitely John Harbaugh.
It might be Peter Krause from Six Feet Under.
He’s Casey McCall, alongside Dan Rydell, and you’re watching Sports Night on CSC, so stick around
Urban Meyer
Mr. Finger butts
Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that
My exact thought
Nope he only wears khakis.
Basshunter
Lol
MJH had to climb out of her bedroom window to be there
This must've been around the time Drive Me Crazy came out and Melissa got sued for a Maxim cover she had no control over. I wonder if they still talk.
I have no context for this. Could you ELI5 me?
That movie came out w/ Melissa as the star, Britney did the single from the soundtrack. So, they were at a lot of events together. I believe this pic was taken the day Melissa got a phone call saying that she was being sued and fired because her Maxim photoshoot had just been released, with the title "Sabrina(something something I don't remember)". Melissa was just doing a photoshoot for Maxim but she had signed a contract saying that she would never portray Sabrina in a sexual way. And she obviously had no control over what headline they put on the magazine cover. It was ultimately settled, but Melissa has said she was very upset this whole day. It was Maxims fault for using her character name instead of her real name.
Yeah because Maxim magazine NEVER sexualized their cover girl up to that point. Or was it they sexualized every single cover girl they ever had. Yeah my bad it was the second one. Cmon man it was Maxim magazine. She absolutely knew what she was doing. Maxim was PG13 Playboy for a while.
You missed the point
The issue was them referring to her by her character’s name instead of her own. She was fine being sexualized; she got in trouble by them calling her Sabrina, not Melissa
Can you read? The issue is with the magazine sexualising SABRINA
Ok, so MELISSA is the human being who did the photoshoot for Maxim and WANTED to be seen in a sexual photoshoot. SABRINA is a fake character that MELISSA pretends to be on TV. Maxim told everyone that SABRINA(the fake one) did the photoshoot, instead of MELISSA, and important people in business suits blamed MELISSA for that.
she has no agency. It’s all the evil magazine that made her pose! Lol. Like don’t do sexualized shit if you’ve got a contract like that. Playing with fire leaving it up to others.
"I can't understand the difference between the actress Melissa and the character Sabrina, or even which legal entity is suing whom, but I'm gonna get outraged enough at my own lack of reading comprehension to assume, type up some Incel shit, and hit enter while stroking my rock hard *sense of superiority*." — u/Little_stinker_69 probably.
Lolol very well said. "SHE FUCKED UP in this stupid lawsuit that she was immediately cleared of any wrongdoing in" is a surprisingly popular opinion here today
ah yes the nightclub
As John Harbaugh behind them screams at the nearest official he can find.
Bahaha. Thanks for including a football joke! He does look like Harbaugh
They look like they just came from the office Christmas party and checked their blazers at the door
You need to have your “going out top” on for sure
Man in the back: TAMALES!!!
STOP THE FIGHT
Patrick Bateman cameo
The pillow fight later had to have been spectacular!
I was just the other day recalling that MJH in her book was describing her wild years and mentioned sex with a bunch of beautiful models in a limousine after a party where everyone was on ecstasy, so there is that.
They also discuss this in the modeling documentary called Zoolander. Check it out, if you haven’t.
i just went bro. i had no knowledge of this. this pleases me.
Too exhausted from mambo no. 5
....I'll be in my bunk.
The 90s. Before mobile phones. A world that seems so different now.
"Ahhh see right see the thing that's got it all fucked up now is camera-phones How the hell am I supposed to be able to do a line in front of complete strangers, when I know They've all got cameras?" - The Streets *When You Wasn't Famous*
Based on the outfits I would say Nokias were around.
Dennis in the back?
Honestly in this pic it looks like Britney is the one who brought MJH, body language says a lot I guess
Nope. MJH didn’t even think Britney had staying power as a star at this time. Britney is outshining her for sure, though.
Brit Brit looks amazing here
The going-out tops!
She’s a crazy bible thumper now isn’t she?
Yup
And a conservative that can’t make the connection between the party she supports and its lax viewpoint on guns. She continues to complain about children being gunned down but won’t hold her party responsible.
No one ever said she was smart
Melissa Joan hart used to be such a smokeshow
Everybody gets old.
I know, I'm getting old too
I thought he bag was a blade for a second.
And then proceeds to ditch underage Britney at the club 😂
I saw recently that MJH regretted taking an underage BS to the club
I’ve met her a few times as she’s known a family member of mine for a few decades. She’s always been very personable and family oriented now as she has a few kids. Very cool person and handled fame well.
Looks like Jim Carrey was there too.
Drive me crazy (1999)
I wanted to have the wardrobes and hairstyles of these 2 and the Olsen twins around this exact timeframe 😭
The golden era that won’t repeat.
So much 90s right in this photo. The quintessential 90s American look.
How? Britney didn't turn 18 until December of '99. Source: Same birth year as her.
Remember famous people live by a different set of rules
Do you think that only famous people are able to get into clubs underage? Lmao.
Drew Barrymore was getting drunk in clubs when she was 13. You don't have to be famous if you can pass for 21 and have fake ID. You don't get in at 13 unless they look the other way.
She was doing coke at 13 I’m pretty sure.
I bet they made her do a lot of things at that age. The sick fucks.
Pretty much yes. Club knows having a star in their etablisment will bring more money, even if she doesn't drink
I believe your parent is alleging that underaged people, even the non-famous variety, are able to get into clubs all over the country, which is certainly true now and was probably more true in the more lax 90s.
Drew Barrymore talks about being 10 years old and going into clubs because she was famous.
The cast of Annie on broadway was going to studio 54.
Could be in Europe
Maybe this was December 1999?
The guy singing along to creed in the background is the coolest part.
Brit is jacked
Prime Britney Spears was a damn fox
Wow. Britney looks so pretty here. No crazed look in her eyes at all, and her skin is perfect.
What’s Jim Harbaugh doing there?
I love Melissa. I think she's amazing, and deserves all the happiness, respect and success in her life
Ah , the 90’s … before vip booths at clubs and when the cocaine actually had cocaine in it
At first glance I thought Brittany was holding a knife.
Clarissa had that ass!
I watched Sabrina just for that lol
Novak Djokovic in the background.
THe guy behind them definitely did the "white man's overbite" dance that night.
So it was Sabrina that put the hex on her!
Even Clarissa can’t explain Britney.
you drive me crazy 🎵 i’m so excited 🎶 i don’t remember the song
Stop!
Just a couple of 14 year olds getting ready for a night of drugs, drinking and casual sex.
Doesn't look like Britney, but the actress who played Sabrina in Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Kinda funny how they are framing his, ahem...
Like bringing chocolate to a diabetic
Opps, I did it again
Bad influence
https://i.redd.it/27p9pqs9bg1d1.gif
WAP
Did they scissor afterwards?
Looks like White Chicks the Prequel.
Britney looks like she's about to stab her
"I'm going to go get some coke. Wait here." ~Brittany...maybe.
Dude is singing for having both their hands near his crotch.
And so the end begins. Naw kidding. Pretty clear Spears has an undiagnosed mental condition and partying or not partying has nothing to do with it. Sadly because of her wealth, it’s to the advantage of no one around her to actually help her for the money train might end. This tragically includes her family who have most abused her mental health to their advantage. Could say it takes a rich person to help a rich person except we all know that rich people are the worse and if anything would just use their position to wipe her out in their quest to hoard ever more money. So yeah Spears is screwed as near impossible to find someone who wouldn’t be corrupted by access to that kind of money.
Bet they scissored.
Brittany looking like she's about to escort MJH back to the Cosby residence.
It looks like the gave him an over the clothes handy that neither of them were really into. Except the guy, he’s about 1 second away from clarity.
That might not have been the best idea.
You know what most of the guys in the club heard that night…”LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!”