Melissa Joan Hart Feels 'Guilty' About Taking 'Underage' Britney Spears to Nightclubs: 'I Should Have Known Better'

Melissa Joan Hart never wanted to be a bad influence on Britney Spears.

During a recent interview with Party tonightHart reflected on her time working with Spears Sabrina the teenage witch and “(You Drive Me) Crazy” video in 1999 and revealed that she took the underage pop icon to nightclubs at the time.

“Britney and I got to do a lot of press together. And we had a lot of fun together during this time,” he said Clarissa explains everything actress, 48, “Toxic” singer. “I saw that she was just surrounded by people, she could never break free. And I said, ‘Hey, do you want to come?’

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Melissa Joan Hart; Britney Spears.

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At the time, Hart was “going to the club every night” and wanted to invite Spears, 42, to join him. “I like to dance and I liked to go out, but I knew how to be responsible and when to stop,” she explained.

“She was underage and young – but me [was] just like, ‘Let’s go out. We’re just going to go out and have fun,” she added They drive me crazy star. “To this day I still feel guilty because I should have known better, being the older sister.”

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Melissa Joan Hart in New York on May 2, 2024.

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Hart stars alongside La La Anthony in a new Lifetime movie Bad guardwhich centers on a woman whose father is placed in a conservatory while she is out of town.

In a recent interview with PEOPLE, Melissa & Joey the star explained that she was “enthralled by the script” and that while Spears and Wendy Williams may be more “significant victims of guardianship and surveillance,” this film has more of a “small-town perspective.”

“In the version of Britney that we see in real life, for her, it’s her struggle to get out of her own guardianship,” Hart explains. “This film is very much about me, the daughter of a man who was taken to the hospital and then put into custody. So I’m a small-town woman who doesn’t have the money to pay big fancy lawyers to fight the big system.”

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