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Jennette McCurdy Says She Was "Exploited" connected iCarly
Jennette McCurdy is lasting her ground.
The erstwhile child star touched connected her hard determination to turn down what she described arsenic "hush money" from Nickelodeon pursuing harassment she says she endured from a antheral boss.
"I attack it from my idiosyncratic constituent of presumption that I was 21 and coming from a spot of self-righteousness," she explained on the astir caller occurrence of Anna Faris' Unqualified podcast. "Then instantly aft the determination I thought, 'That's a batch of money, I could enactment my nieces done college.' Now I deliberation those kinds of things."
Ultimately, the 30-year-old said she is proud that she "chose the way of integrity," adding she's "cried with pride" of herself.
McCurdy—who starred connected the Nickelodeon series iCarly and Sam & Cat, both created by Dan Schneider—made the bombshell allegation successful her caller memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died. Describing a antheral boss not by sanction but arsenic simply "The Creator," the now retired actress wrote that the intimidating fig offered her archetypal sensation of intoxicant erstwhile she was lone 18 years old, astatine a backstage meal they were having up of the motorboat of Sam & Cat, which besides starred Ariana Grande. At this aforesaid dinner, McCurdy alleged "The Creator" gave her his overgarment and massaged her without consent.
"My shoulders bash person a batch of knots successful them, but I don't privation 'The Creator' to beryllium the 1 rubbing them out," she wrote. "I privation to accidental something, to archer him to stop, but I'm truthful frightened of offending him."
After proceeding of the show's cancellation, McCurdy claims that Nickelodeon offered her $300,000 arsenic a thank-you acquisition with the information that she ne'er speech publically astir her experiences on the show.
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"What the f--k? Nickelodeon is offering maine 3 100 1000 dollars successful hush wealth to not speech publically astir my acquisition connected the show?" she wrote successful her memoir. "My idiosyncratic acquisition of 'The Creator's' abuse?' This is simply a web with shows made for children. Shouldn't they person immoderate benignant of motivation compass? Shouldn't they astatine slightest effort to study to immoderate benignant of ethical standard?"
In a connection provided to E! News from Schneider's team, Russell Hicks, erstwhile President of Content and Production astatine Nickelodeon, said that Schneider "cared astir the kids connected his shows adjacent erstwhile sometimes their ain families unluckily did not. He was the enarthrosis they cried connected erstwhile thing happened to them. He understood what they were going through. Dan was similar the large precocious schoolhouse counsellor you could ever crook to for assistance and guidance. And helium was their biggest champion."
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The connection continued, "Nickelodeon's estimation arsenic the champion successful kids' tv required that thing went connected without the institution knowing. There is simply a standards and practices radical that reads each publication and programming executives looking astatine each episode. Add to that mundane connected each set, were the parents and caregivers and their friends watching each azygous framework of footage and listening to each joke. They had a cardinal dollar marque to protect. Every azygous happening that Dan ever did connected immoderate of his shows was cautiously scrutinized and approved by executives astatine Nickelodeon."
When contacted straight for comment, Hicks told E! News, "I deliberation Jeanette's publication is truly a beauteous tribute to getting the assistance she needed to get done the trauma she experienced with balancing her household and precocious pressured enactment life. Hopefully it'll assistance others get the assistance that they need."
Earlier this month, McCurdy described her childhood and adolescence arsenic being "very exploited" to the New York Times. She said that mother Debra McCurdy—who died of crab successful 2013—didn't intervene due to the fact that she thought it was a part of being an actress.
"There were cases wherever radical had the champion intentions and possibly didn't cognize what they were doing," she said connected Aug. 4. "And besides cases wherever they did—they knew precisely what they were doing."
In the aftermath of McCurdy's revelations, Miranda Cosgrove shared that she didn't recognize what her iCarly co-star was allegedly going through during their clip connected the show.
"When you're young, you're truthful successful your ain head," Cosgrove told the New York Times. "You can't ideate that radical astir you are having overmuch harder struggles."
She continued, "You don't expect things similar that from the idiosyncratic successful the country who's making everyone laugh."
E! News has reached retired to Nickelodeon and McCurdy for remark and has not heard back.
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