Hart confesses in the tome to dabbling in hard drugs, and she opened up to Life & Style about experimenting with "weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms, and mescaline" for a couple years (via Daily Mail), acknowledging she was hanging out with a "bad crowd" at the time. As The Hollywood Reporter argued, however, that the actress' bragging about "[dropping] ecstasy" and "getting her drink on" just reinforces the fact that she's writing her story as a middle-aged mother of three.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly promoting the release of the book, Hart admitted she wasn't particularly wild. "Ultimately I am a very responsible person. I do take my responsibility to my family and my work very seriously, and I always have," she shared, opining, "I don't think it would be anything as shocking as some of the people you see out there that are running amok." Hart noted that she appreciates the support of her family, who kept her on the right track.
The other shocking revelation from Melissa Explains It All surrounds the casting of her love interest on Clarissa. Hart admitted she requested anybody but James Van Der Beek, who was then pre-Dawson's Creek fame. Unfortunately for her, he booked the gig. "Despite my objections, guess who they cast? Yup, my opinion didn't weigh as heavily as I'd hoped," she said. Outside of work, she also apparently had no time for Ashton Kutcher, whom the teen star dubbed a "smart a**," according to Distractify.
