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Former Nickelodeon star Melissa Joan Hart is reacting to Investigation Discovery’s bombshell docuseries “Quiet on the Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV.”
Hart, who starred in “Clarissa Explains It All” on the community for 5 seasons between 1991 and 1994, stated on the March 28 episode of Meghan McCain’s podcast, “Meghan McCain Has Entered The Chat,” that whereas she did not undergo what these within the docuseries allege occurred to them, she stands with them.MORE: Nickelodeon alum Kenan Thompson reacts to ‘Quiet on Set’ docuseries: ‘Examine extra’
The actress shared that she has but to see the docuseries herself, however admitted she must.
“Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV” investigates claims of abuse, sexism, racism, and poisonous workplaces at some Nickelodeon exhibits in its heyday of the Nineties and early 2000s.Paul Morigi/Getty Photographs for March Fourth, FILEIn this Jan. 23, 2024, file photograph, Melissa Joan Hart attends an occasion in Washington, D.C.
“I do not know different individuals’s experiences and I am not negating something anybody else says,” Hart stated. “I’ve by no means been advised these individuals’s tales which can be within the documentary … and I’ve to say, I’ve by no means heard a narrative from a Nickelodeon star personally. Nobody’s come to me and talked to me about any of those conditions.”
“That is to not say that something about anybody’s story,” she continued. “I completely belief and consider them, 100%.”
Hart stated she by no means skilled any kind of abuse working as a child star at Nickelodeon’s Orlando studio — suggesting there might have been a distinction between how issues had been run in Florida versus the studio in Hollywood — throughout the time she was there, saying it was “nothing however a beautiful expertise.”MORE: Former Nickelodeon stars converse out about alleged inappropriate work environments
Nonetheless, the “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” alum did say “they did work the youngsters rather a lot more durable than [they] most likely legally ought to.”
“We had a ton of enjoyable, it was simply lengthy hours, that is all — as a result of I needed to do faculty and the present,” Hart defined.NickRewind/YouTubeMelissa Joan Hart is proven in a scene from “Clarissa Explains It All.”
Hart defined she felt “very protected and really protected” on the set of “Clarissa Explains It All,” insisting that “not each egg within the Nickelodeon basket is rotten.”
“There have been some good eggs,” she stated. “There have been some individuals that actually took care of me.”
Hart’s response to “Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV” comes after “All That” and “Kenan & Kel” alum Kenan Thompson’s, with the actor saying he “wasn’t actually conscious” of the alleged abuse however including “my coronary heart goes out to anyone that is been victimized, or their households.”
Nickelodeon has responded to the collection, with the community telling ABC Information that whereas it “can not corroborate or negate allegations of behaviors from productions many years in the past, Nickelodeon as a matter of coverage investigates all formal complaints as half our dedication to fostering a protected {and professional} office setting freed from harassment or different kinds of inappropriate conduct,” including that it has “adopted quite a few safeguards through the years to assist guarantee we live as much as personal excessive requirements and the expectations of our viewers.”
“Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Children TV” just lately introduced a fifth episode of the docuseries will drop April 7.