SNL Vet Was 'Horrified' By Fake Nose She Wore In Blossom Spoof That Made Mayim Bialik Feel 'Ashamed'

Saturday Night Live alum Melanie Hutsell is opening up about her discomfort donning a prosthetic nose to play Blossom's Mayim Bialik in a 1994 sketch, days after Bialik shared that the spoof made her feel "ashamed."

On Oct. 18, Bialik revisited the sketch in an essay on Variety. She remembered being the only Blossom cast member singled out for her physical features, particularly her "undeniably Jewish nose."

"Girls all over the world used to tell me that they had never seen a Jewish girl like me on TV before," she wrote. "I wonder how those girls felt when they saw an actress playing me with a comically prosthetic nose."

On Friday, Hutsell shared her regrets, saying she "knew it was wrong" in a statement obtained by Entertainment Weekly.

"When we were preparing to do that sketch all those years ago, I was absolutely horrified that they wanted me to wear a prosthetic nose to play Mayim Bialik's character, Blossom," she said.

"I remember so clearly that when I expressed that I did not want to wear the prosthetic nose for the sketch, I was told if I refused, I would be fired," she continued. "And keep in mind, many of the people who had a hand in creating the sketch were Jewish. Although I had and have always had a strong moral compass, I didn't have the strength to refuse to do the sketch after I was told I would be fired."

If she had the opportunity to do it all over, Hutsell said she "would have refused to wear the prosthetic nose and taken the risk of losing my job. That would have been the right thing to do."