Melissa Joan Hart admits she still feels ‘really guilty’ for taking Britney Spears to her first nightclub when she was underage
Nearly 25 years later, Melissa Joan Hart still has some regrets about her young friendship with Britney Spears.
The Sabrina the Teenage Witch star, 48, admitted she ‘feels’really guiltyabout taking the Grammy winner, 42, to her first nightclub when she was underage, years before Spears’ 2008 collapse and subsequent conservatorship.
“Britney and I had to do a lot of press together,” Hart told ET about promoting 1999’s Drive Me Crazy. “And we had a lot of fun together during that time.”
She co-starred with Adrian Grenier in the teen romance, which was named after Spears’ single “(You Drive Me) Crazy” that appeared on the soundtrack.
Hart and Grenier, 47, also appeared on the songs with Spears video clipand the pop star made a cameo on Hart’s Nickelodeon show Sabrina that year.
Melissa Joan Hart admits she feels ‘really guilty’ for taking Britney Spears to her first nightclub when she was underage
The outing took place years before Spears’ 2008 collapse and subsequent conservatorship
βI saw that she was just surrounded by people and could never break away,β she recalled. “And I was like, ‘Hey, do you want to come?’
βI went to a club every night β I love to dance and I loved going out, but I also knew I had to be responsible and when to stop,β Hart added.
The Bad Guardian actress opened up about their first night out: βShe was underage and young and β but me [was] just like, “Let’s go out. We’re just going to go out and have some fun.”
βI still feel guilty about that to this day, because as a big sister I should have known better,β Hart said.
She previously detailed their first night out when she appeared on Bethenny Frankel’s talk show in 2013 and admitted to leaving Spears at the club.
βSo I went to her hotel and invited her to go out with me and we went to a club,β Hart said.
βShe was underage, so I snuck her in the back door and we danced a little bit and then people swarmed on top of her and then she got stuck at a table, hanging out with people, chatting,β she recalled.
Heart added. ‘And I thought, “I have to go to work tomorrow, can I go?” And she said, ‘Yes, yes, yes. No, go ahead, I’m fine. They’re taking me home.'”
Spears was placed under conservatorship in 2008 until 2021, when she gave evidence about the “abuse” she allegedly suffered.
“Britney and I had to do a lot of press together,” Hart told ET about promoting 1999’s Drive Me Crazy. “And we had a lot of fun together during this time.”
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The Bad Guardian actress opened up about their first night out: βShe was underage and young and β but me [was] just like, “Let’s go out. We’re just going to go out and have some fun.”‘
βI still feel guilty about that to this day because as a big sister I should have known better,β Hart said
The Glory artist recently raised concerns about another mental health episode after suffering an injury at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.
She was doing cartwheels outside her hotel room when she twisted her ankle, after having a drink at the hotel bar with boyfriend Paul Soliz.
Spears said she was “harassed and gassed and tricked into going out into the street barefoot to meet the ambulance.”
‘I was in my pajamas and yes, I had cried because I hurt my foot!!! No malfunction!!! I’m a grown** woman who is actually very naive in most situations!!!’ she wrote on Instagram.
A source previously told DailyMail.com that it was Britney’s mother Lynne who “called 911 and told them Britney was having a breakdown and had self-harmed,” knowing her daughter was “in a traumatized state.”
The Glory artist recently raised concerns about another mental health episode after suffering an injury at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles
A source previously told DailyMail.com that it was Britney’s mother Lynne who “called 911 and told them Britney was having a breakdown.”
“Britney cried in pain and called Lynne in Louisiana to tell her what happened,” the insider said. “At the time, Lynne was the only one who knew she had hurt herself.”
Seeing a stretcher was “traumatizing” for Spears and caused “a severe panic attack” after she was placed under a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold in 2008.
Spears has since reportedly threatened to sell her Serenity mansion in Kentwood, Louisiana, where her mother has lived rent-free since it was built in 2001.