Jennette McCurdy says Nickelodeon offered her ‘hush money’

Former iCarly star Jennette McCurdy has made vital allegations towards Nickelodeon, starting from not being allowed the identical privileges as her Sam & Cat co-star Ariana Grande to a “present” of $300,000 if she agreed to by no means converse out about her experiences on the famed youngsters’s community.

An excerpt revealed by Self-importance Truthful from McCurdy’s new memoir, I am Glad My Mother Died, went into element of McCurdy’s expertise as a rising TV star. An unnamed man, known as “the Creator,” allegedly pressured McCurdy to drink whereas underage, and gave her massages. Whereas “the Creator” will not be named within the ebook, iCarly was notoriously the brainchild of Dan Schneider, who was investigated by ViacomCBS previous to his 2018 departure from Nickelodeon.

McCurdy alleged “the Creator” had a two-face persona that included a “beneficiant and over-the-top complimentary” facet, in addition to a “mean-spirited, controlling, and terrifying” one that would make “grown women and men cry together with his insults and degradation.”

Whereas “the Creator” later confronted vital penalties for his conduct on the community, McCurdy wrote she was informed that she would obtain the $300,000 “thank-you present” so long as she agreed by no means speak publicly about her expertise at Nickelodeon. In the end, she selected to not settle for it.

“What the f**okay? Nickelodeon is providing me 300 thousand {dollars} in hush cash to not speak publicly about my expertise on the present? My private expertise of The Creator’s abuse?” McCurdy wrote. “This can be a community with reveals made for youngsters. Shouldn’t they’ve some kind of ethical compass? Shouldn’t they a minimum of attempt to report back to some kind of moral customary?”

Whereas McCurdy was promised an iCarly spinoff, this system finally turned Sam & Cat, through which she co-starred with Grande, who reprised her function from the the collection Victorious. However whereas Grande was allowed to pursue work alternatives outdoors this system, McCurdy was informed by executives she couldn’t.

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“What lastly undid me was when Ariana got here whistle-toning in with pleasure as a result of she had spent the earlier night taking part in charades at Tom Hanks’s home. That was the second I broke,” McCurdy wrote within the memoir.

McCurdy detailed different incidents on the community, together with how she was embarrassed by being pictured in a bikini at a wardrobe becoming. When she voiced her considerations to her mom, she was informed by her to take care of it, since “everybody desires what you will have.”

That response was only a piece of the advanced relationship along with her late mom. Whereas she struggled with set life, she has additionally spoken about how her residence life was very difficult.

“My earliest recollections of childhood have been of heaviness, and chaos,” McCurdy informed Folks in 2021, sharing that she witnessed critical bodily preventing at residence between her mother and father. “My mother’s feelings have been so erratic that it was like strolling a tightrope day by day. The temper fluctuations have been every day.”

Although the actress was terribly shy, she stated her mom “at all times dreamt of being a well-known actor and she or he turned obsessive about making me a star.” That included monitoring and controlling her meals. On the time, McCurdy suffered from obsessive-compulsive dysfunction, consuming issues and anxiousness.

“I do know if my mother have been alive, I would nonetheless have an consuming dysfunction,” McCurdy shared. “It was solely distance from her that allowed me to get wholesome.”