Melissa Joan Hart was one of the best-known actresses of the 1990s, starring in comedies Clarissa explains it all and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Although she was known for her good-girl image, Hart admits that she had some fun nights in her 20s.
“I did sabrina from 20 to 27 years old (from 1996 to 2003),” Hart says in a 2013 interview on Oprah Winfrey. “And yeah, in the beginning, it was the first time I was really hanging out in Los Angeles and I started making my own money, I bought my own house, i started partying and doing all these crazy fun things and really enjoying my life as an adult for the first time”.
Joan Hart recounted in her memoir Melissa Explains It All (‘Melissa explains everything’, in Spanish, published in 2013) the anecdote of when she was invited for the first time to a party at the Playboy mansion, in the summer of 1999.
“To the right was a pool and area with beanbags to hang out in, and to the left was a zoo with peacocks and monkeys. A nearby boarding house had a pool table, slot machines, pinball and private rooms to have relationships, although you could pretty much do it anywhere on the property without causing a stir“, wrote.
“The playmates (models that appeared in the magazine Playboy) who worked at the party were sprayed to make it look like they were wearing swimsuits or lingerie, although in reality they were naked and completely shaven”, he described.
Not long after arriving at the mansion, she and her friends decided to use ecstasy. She spent several hours partying in a limousine with Jonny Moseley, an American athlete who won a gold medal at the 2008 Winter Games, and a girl he met on the spot. She wrote that the substance “made her feel sexier, more talkative and a little more confident around guests like James Woods and Vince Vaughn.”
Photo session under the effects of ecstasy
She remembers that 30 minutes after arriving at her house, after the party, a car came by to pick her up for a photo session with max, an adult magazine. Earlier that year, Hart had entered the Hot 100 list of max, so the readers of the magazine wrote to see it on the cover and an editor called his entourage about it, and he accepted.
She recounts that she didn’t realize how long the ecstasy effect would last after the Playboy party, and that she would still be high when she got to the studio.
“Senses heightened, I knew I was there for a cover shoot, but I didn’t flinch when I saw the closet full of bras, panties and nothing else. (I’m sure my publicist was there to protect me, but I wasn’t in a position to remember the details.) I had been to photo shoots before where they tried to get me to wear almost nothing, but I would never go along with it.. This time, however, after having arrived from a party full of naked people, with me in my underwear and still coming under the influence of drugsI didn’t feel like a modest person”, he indicated.
When the magazine containing that photo shoot was published, Archie Comics, the company that owns the rights to Sabrina the Teenage Witchwanted Hart fired from the show for breach of contract as she was allegedly portraying her character in a vulgar manner.
“Hearing this, I felt as if someone had punched me in the stomach. I went out for a cigarette and called Mom. We were both really freaked out, and she was mad at me too, wondering what she had done on this cover that she was so actionable,” she recounted. Archie backed off from firing her after Hart and her attorney sent a letter of apology. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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