Fans struggled to the news when they learned that actress Melissa Joan Hart — best known as “Sabrina The Teenage Witch” — had been cast as a grandmother in an upcoming ripped-from-the-headlines movie from Lifetime.
The film in question — ‘Would You Kill For Me?: The Mary Bailey Story‘ — is loosely based on the true story of Mary Bailey, whose mother asked her at age 11 to shoot her abusive stepfather. Hart plays Mary’s grandmother, Ella, and mother to Veronica — who gave birth to Mary when she was just 16.
But fans weren’t quite ready to picture Hart, 47, as a grandma — and they took to social media to voice their opinions on the subject.
“MISERY LOVES COMPANY,” one woman posted on X. “I present, Melissa Joan Hart as granny!”
I made it all so much worse. In my head I thought, “Wasn’t she just in a holiday romcom with Mario Lopez a hot minute ago?” Holiday…
