The pair starred in Britney Spears’ music video for “You Drive Me (Loopy)”. (Getty)
Melissa Joan Hart stated she regrets taking Britney Spears clubbing when she was underage, explaining: “I really feel actually responsible about that also to at the present time.”
The Sabrina the Teenage Witch actor, 48, regarded again on her profession in a latest interview, together with when she starred alongside the now 42-year-old singer in her 1999 music video for “You Drive Me (Loopy)”.
The star regarded over images of herself and the “Poisonous” hitmaker – whom Hart is six years older – taken again from that 12 months and past. Leisure Tonight stated they’d a “sibling-style bond”, with the actor including that they did “loads of press collectively” on the time.
“I noticed that she was simply surrounded by individuals, by no means capable of break away. And I used to be like, ‘Hey need to come?’,” Hart stated to the outlet of encouraging Spears to go clubbing along with her. “I’d go to a membership each night time – I like dancing and I beloved going out, however I additionally knew to be accountable and, like, when to cease.”
In response to the outlet, Spears would have been simply 17 on the time of the “Loopy” music video launch, which hailed from her debut album, Child One Extra Time.
“She was underage and younger and – however I [was] similar to, ‘Let’s exit. We’re simply gonna exit and have some enjoyable.’ And yeah – and I really feel actually responsible about that also to at the present time as a result of I ought to have identified higher, being a giant sister,” Hart stated.
Spears – who lately re-entered the chart regardless of not releasing music since 2022’s “Maintain Me Nearer” duet with Elton John – touched on her relationship with alcohol in her 2023 memoir, The Lady In Me. She wrote within the guide about ingesting along with her mom when she was in 12 months 9 (the UK equal) in school.
“For enjoyable, beginning once I was in eighth grade, my mother and I’d make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and whereas we had been there, we’d drink daiquiris,” she wrote. “We known as our cocktails ‘toddies.’
“I beloved that I used to be capable of drink with my mother once in a while,” she continued within the guide. “The way in which we drank was nothing like how my father did it. When he drank, he grew extra depressed and shut down. We grew to become happier, extra alive and adventurous.”
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