Melissa Joan Hart Has a Breakdown in Dramatic New Lifetime Movie: Here's a First Look (Exclusive)

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Melissa Joan Hart is at her breaking point in a dramatic new Lifetime movie.Inspired by real-life events, — part of the network's «Ripped From the Headlines» slate -- follows 17-year-old Lucy (Lizzie Boys) who has been painfully isolated from her peers for years, refusing to let anyone near her house in order to hide her family secret: the overwhelming mountain of items filled in every crevice of space in her home.

She quietly plans her escape to college while managing her mother Joanna’s (Hart) hoarding disorder. Outwardly, a highly functioning nurse, Joanna maintains the dysfunction in their home with an obsessive grip but after a tragedy, Lucy must decide if she will hide her mother's secret, or expose it to the world.ET exclusively premieres a first look at the upcoming film, which finds Lucy carefully tiptoeing around her mother, who begins their conversation innocently enough amidst piles and piles of stuff.

See, Joanna has a dream of one day living in a pristine home without all the clutter and mess she's surrounded by on a daily basis, as she shares the idyllic future with her daughter.«I always told you, honey, it's messy right now but it's just temporary,» Joanna assures Lucy, who's not buying into anything she's saying.