On a February 2021 episode of her podcast Empty Inside, the iCarly alum instructed visitor Anna Faris that she determined to cease performing just a few years again and is now targeted on alternatives in writing and directing, along with internet hosting the podcast.

“My expertise with performing is, I am so ashamed of the elements I’ve achieved previously,” revealed Jennette, who detailed her expertise in her 2022 memoir I am Glad My Mother Died. “I resent my profession in numerous methods. I really feel so unfulfilled by the roles that I performed and felt prefer it was essentially the most tacky, embarrassing. I did the reveals that I used to be on from like 13 to 21, and by 15, I used to be already embarrassed. My mates at 15, they don’t seem to be like, ‘Oh, cool, you are on this Nickelodeon present.’ It was embarrassing.”

Although she hasn’t completely written off a second act. “I do really feel like solely by way of writing the e book have I gotten to a spot the place I believe there is likely to be a approach of exploring performing that does not carry that baggage that I carried with me for therefore lengthy,” she instructed E! Information in October 2022. “Perhaps if I write one thing for myself. I believe that’d actually be possibly one of many solely methods I might type of strive exploring it once more.”