So how did the actress fix this spell gone bad? “I wrote an apology letter,” Melissa shared. “And it was all gone.”
But one unexpected perk of the scenario, she admitted, was a lot of free press.
“The silver lining here is that for weeks, the top news: ‘Can Melissa be sexy’?” she explained. “‘Why is she being fired from her tv show?’ And all this drama. But it made for Drive Me Crazy to come out and be a huge success. It was insane.”
E! News has reached out to ABC, The WB and Nell Scovell, the show’s creator, for comment but has yet to hear back.
Since the show came to an end in 2003 after 7 seasons, Melissa has often reminisced about her time on the beloved sitcom. However, don’t expect her to hop on the revival train.
“I think we would all have a lot of fun, but I don’t think that that necessarily makes for a good show just because we’re having a blast,” she told E! News at That’s 4 Entertainment 90s Con earlier this year. “I think that it’s really hard to reboot something, do it smart. I think that people have thought about it for too long and everyone has an idea of what they want it to be, but I don’t think it would ever make anyone happy.”
