actress Melissa Joan Hart posted an emotional video to Instagram on Tuesday, revealing that she was helping kindergarten children escape the school shooting Nashville On Monday.

Three nine-year-olds and three school staff were killed at Covenant School when the gunman, identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, broke into the academy and began shooting.

The Sabrina the Teenage Witch star and Nashville resident shared her experiences in one Instagram Video to her almost 2 million followers, a day later. She says her children — sons Mason, 17, Braden, 15, and Tucker, 10 — attend the school “right next door” to where the massacre took place.

“We moved here from Connecticut, where we went to school a little way from Sandy Hook, so this is our second experience of having a school shoot where our kids are very close,” the 46-year-old said of her 1.7 million followers. “Fortunately we are all fine.”

The “Melissa & Joey” star said she and husband Mark Wilkerson didn’t hesitate for a second when trying to help the young children who were “trying to escape from school.”

The couple happened to be on their way to conferences at their sons’ school, she says.

“My husband and I were on our way to school for conferences. Luckily our kids weren’t there today,” Hart explained through tears.

She added:

“We helped a kindergarten class across a busy highway. They climbed out of the woods, they were trying to escape a shooting at their school. So we helped these tiny kids cross the street and get their teachers there.”

The Nashville Police Department released the bodycam footage and it cannot be overstated how remarkable the response was. These men are absolute heroes. pic.twitter.com/aOT8IJyH04

— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) March 28, 2023

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“We helped a mother reunite with her children and I just don’t know what to say. Enough is enough. Just pray, pray for the families,” she continued.

“Prayer today, action tomorrow,” she captioned the minute-long clip. “That was too raw to post yesterday but I wanted you to hear this story.”

Authorities say Audrey Hale shot herself into the Christian Academy with two assault rifles and a pistol on Monday morning.

Hale, who is described by investigators as a former student at the school, murdered the six victims before police fatally shot them, just 14 minutes after authorities received the call about an active gunman.

The victims were named Monday afternoon: Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all aged 9. Three adult school employees were also killed: substitute teacher Cynthia Peak and janitor Mike Hill, both 61, and principal Katherine Koonce, 60.

Longtime Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter has been fired after Disney cut costs. Marvel Entertainment, a small consumer-focused division that operated separately from Marvel Studios, is also set to be fully integrated into other Disney entities.

Perlmutter has a controversial history with Marvel. He gained control of the company during the notoriously rough 1990s, during which the company was even forced to file for bankruptcy. Perlmutter expanded the company’s merchandising efforts by selling the film rights to properties such as X-Men And Spiderman. Many fans today claim these deals were terrible for the company, although others saw it as the only way to save the company.

Perlmutter sold Marvel to Disney for $4 billion in 2009 after the success of the first iron man Movie. Since then, Perlmutter’s control of Marvel has slowly diminished, with Kevin Feige gaining more control of Marvel Studios. Perlmutter ended all involvement in 2015 after a dispute with Feige over the Marvel film budget Doctor Strange, in which Perlmutter wanted to fire Feige but was overruled by Disney CEO Bob Iger. Perlmutter remained in charge of Marvel Television through 2019. Since then, Perlmutter has been primarily responsible for comic book publishing and other parts of licensing, such as video games.

The decision to let Perlmutter go follows his attempt to bring friend and activist investor Nelson Peltz to the Disney board by reaching out to senior executives about it six times from August to November last year. Peltz wanted to join the board because he had been vocal in opposing Iger’s return as CEO. Perlmutter claimed Peltz was able to “cut costs, revitalize Disney’s streaming business and clean up the company’s messy succession planning.” As of now, Peltz has not joined the Disney Board.

Perlmutter wasn’t the only one to be fired from Marvel Entertainment. Disney also named Marvel Entertainment Co-President Rob Steffens and Chief Counsel John Turitzin. According to insiders Umberto GonzalesRob Grosser was also dismissed from his post. Grosser was a longtime outside Marvel security advisor who was considered Perlmutter’s “fixer”.

Source: The New York Times

“I thought she was incredible for someone who basically deserved her and I didn’t feel like that person,” the Gravity Falls actor told Drew Barrymore

Jason Knight has revealed that his battle with addiction made him feel unworthy of dating his now-wife in the early days Melanie Lynsky.

During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, the 43-year-old Raising Dion star revealed he didn’t think he “deserved” Lynskey as he was battling alcoholism when they first met.

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“I knew from an early age how incredible Melanie was,” he explained. “It’s not as cute a story as you might think. It was messy and interesting and weird, but mixed into the mix – I was dealing with some drinking issues.”

Ritter knew how “amazing she was,” Ritter said, “I thought she was incredible for someone who basically deserved her, and I didn’t feel like that person. I was feeling a little too crazy.”

.@JasonRitter opened up that he had to address his alcoholism when he first started dating @Melanielynskey. pic.twitter.com/Nw4Glxnw4i

— The Drew Barrymore Show (@DrewBarrymoreTV) March 29, 2023
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It wasn’t until a year after his sobriety that the ‘Gravity Falls’ actor realized he thought he might be worthy of their relationship.

“It wasn’t until after I didn’t drink for maybe a year that I started to be like, ‘Oh, maybe I can promise someone else some things,’” he recalled. “It was like a slow burn, so I knew she was amazing, it worked on me enough to feel like maybe I could be right for her too.”

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Lynskey gushed, “He worked so hard. He’s worked on himself so much, I’m so proud of him.”

Knight is almost 10 years sober and celebrates each year by updating a Twitter thread he created in 2018.

“Five years ago today I stopped drinking alcohol,” he wrote at the time. “I’m so grateful to the wonderful community of people who have helped me learn about myself and bravely shared their experiences with strangers like me. I was quiet but I listened.”

Five years ago today I stopped drinking alcohol. I am so grateful to the wonderful community of people who have helped me learn about myself and bravely shared their experiences with strangers like me. I was quiet but I listened ❤️

— Jason Ritter 🦋 (@JasonRitter) October 17, 2018
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Inspired by Ritter’s feelings, host Drew Barrymore revealed that she hasn’t had a drink in almost four years.

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“I haven’t been drinking — and I’m not sober, I’m not working on any program — but alcohol has been my poison and I haven’t had a drink in almost four years,” she explained.

“The narrative you create is, ‘I can’t be with anyone,’ and I haven’t been in a relationship since I stopped drinking,” Barrymore continued. “I’m really looking forward to one day not having that ‘bad girl’ narrative, the instability, the ‘I’m not someone who has the right to be with anyone for her sake.”