Melissa Joan Hart might be happy in her marriage and career, but that hasn’t stopped her from discussing her past. Over the years, the Nickelodeon star has opened up about her life as a child actor and how she navigated, often clumsily, the transition into adulthood. She’s even opened up about her early romances in several interviews and her book, Melissa Explains It All. Hart recently talked about briefly dating Ryan Reynolds. In fact, the mother of three once said she regretted not taking the romance more seriously.

Melissa Joan Hart once said she regretted not getting serious with Ryan Reynolds

While Hart didn’t take the fling seriously back then, it was a decision she would come to regret. In 2013, she wrote about the flirtation, explaining that they were “smitten and cute.” But she moved on and started dating someone else. While Reynolds and Hart were both child actors, she was the more established star at the time.

Hart once again discussed Reynolds during a 2023 appearance on Hey Dude…The 90s Called! Hart again noted that she had a “little thing” with Ryan Reynolds when they worked together on a movie — likely the 1996 TV movie, Sabrina the Teenage Witch — but didn’t elaborate further. She did, however, note that she dated Corky Martin, who also goes by Chris Martin, in the ’90s. Martin appeared in Nickelodeon’s experimental teen drama Fifteen. Ryan Reynolds appeared on the same show.

Ryan Reynolds and Melissa Joan Hart found their perfect matches

While Melissa Joan Hart might regret not taking things to the next level with Ryan Reynolds, it all worked out for the best. Both went on to marry other people and seem pretty happy with their choices. Both Reynolds and Hart have long-standing marriages.

Melissa Joan Hart is celebrating more than 20 years of marriage to Mark Wilkerson. The pair met in 2002 at the Kentucky Derby. A year later, they married and have since welcomed three sons. Their eldest child, Mason, was born in 2006. Two years later, they announced the birth of their second son, Braydon. Tucker Wilkerson joined the family in 2012.

Reynolds famously went on to wed and divorce Scarlett Johansson before hooking up with Blake Lively. Reynold and Lively met in 2010, began dating in 2011, and married in an intimate ceremony in South Carolina in 2012. They share four children. Their eldest child, James, was born in 2014. Their second daughter, Inez, was born in 2016, and their third daughter, Betty, joined the family in 2019. Their youngest child, Olin, was born in 2023.