Actress Melissa Joan Hart explained through a tearful video Tuesday that she and her husband worked to help kindergartners flee the Nashville school shooting.
The actress and her husband, Mark Wilkerson, have three sons, aged 17, 15, and 10. Hart is most well known for her roles in a number of sitcoms such as “Clarissa Explains It All,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” and “Melissa and Joey.”
“Hey guys, for those of you that know I live in Nashville, and what’s been going on here today, my kids go to school right next to a school where there was a shooting today,” Hart started. “We moved here from Connecticut where we were in school a little ways down from Sandy Hook, so this is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity.”
“Luckily we are all okay,” she went on. “But we did — my husband and I were on our way to school for conferences. Luckily our kids weren’t in today. We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway. They were climbing out of the woods; they were trying to escape a shooter situation at their school.”
“So we helped all these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there,” she explained. “We helped a mom reunite with her children and I just … I don’t know what to say. Enough is enough. Just pray, pray for the families.”
“We pray every night with the kids and at every meal,” Hart stated once about her family, going on to say of her son, “We let Mason lead us in prayer, which is really very cute. He always thanks God for dinosaurs. We go to church every Sunday, and Mason goes to Sunday school while my husband and I are in the actual service. He is learning and coloring. He thinks he is having fun, but at the same time he is learning about Jesus, religion, and prayer.”
“Braydon, too, will start that in a couple of months,” she concluded. “Mason also goes to a Christian pre-school, which I think is wonderful and helpful. They say a prayer before snack every day and do chapel once a week. I think it is nice. It puts him around a group that has the same beliefs as his family. It makes us nice for us to make new friends within that community.”
