Melissa Joan Hart recalls vomiting her ‘brains out’ during iconic “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” episode (exclusive)
Melissa Joan Hart recalls vomiting her ‘brains out’ during iconic “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” episode (exclusive)
Emlyn TravisSat, November 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC
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Melissa Joan Hart is talking Sabrina the Teenage Witch with Entertainment Weekly.
The actress recalled being incredibly sick while shooting one episode in a recent cast reunion in honor of the show’s 30th anniversary.
“I was vomiting my brains out,” she said.
Melissa Joan Hart is remembering a less-than-charming moment on the set of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
The actress, who played Sabrina Spellman on the beloved teen drama, revealed that she was incredibly ill while filming the show’s season 3 finale “The Good, the Bad, and the Luau” and was “puking off camera” frequently in between takes.
“I do remember with this episode in particular on that volcano, I was vomiting my brains out,” Hart told Entertainment Weekly during a cast reunion in honor of the show’s 30th anniversary. “And I asked our key grip to stand behind me in case I passed out and fell off because we were out in the sun.”
Melissa Joan Hart on ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’Credit: Paramount
The episode, which aired in 1999, follows Sabrina as she trades Westbridge for Hawaii in order to attend a Spellman family reunion. While there, she learns her family’s unique secret: they’re all born with a twin. And hers happens to be Katrina (also played by Hart).
“I’m puking off camera. I’m standing there trying to play two of me,” she recalled of the episode. “So when I see that I’m like, ‘Oh, God, are you okay?’ I think of little me like, ‘Are you all right?’”
Sabrina and Katrina end up being put through a test to determine which of them is actually the evil twin. In order to prove her innocence, Katrina decides to push Sabrina into an active volcano, revealing that she’s been the evil twin all along.
Despite being sick, the episode still holds a special place in Hart’s heart. “I always ask kids at any Comic Con, I say, ‘Do you know the Spellman family secret?’” she said. “I test people by how well they know the show if they know the Spellman family secret.”
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Hart explained that she loved how the show continued to push her character into outlandish situations throughout its seven-season-long run.
“I always say that Sabrina was kind of a tough character to play for me because she wasn’t daring and adventurous. She was trying to disappear and fade into the woodwork,” she confessed. “But she, luckily, got to do these wild, crazy, weird things which kept it really, really interesting for me.”
She added, “So I think the fact that Sabrina got to be an evil twin, or got to be Alice in Wonderland, or got to be a trapeze artist, kept it really interesting.”
The actress also opened up about her experience directing the season 4 episode, “Super Hero.”
“I just remember because I still have the front of that airplane,” Hart said. “The propeller was breakaway, and the whole crew signed it for me. I still have it hanging up in my house.”
Watch Hart discuss the episodes in the video above.
on Entertainment Weekly
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