Jennette McCurdy

In an excerpt from her memoir, 'I'm Glad My Mom Died,' the former 'iCarly' and 'Sam & Cat' star alleges that she was offered hush money to stay silent about ...

I chose you.” I ate everything. I feel so full. I couldn’t stop myself. I take a sip of water while I try and figure out what to say next. “The Victorious kids get drunk together all the time. But I didn’t choose anyone. I like being his favorite for now. “Okay.” “I dunno.” (Vanity Fair has reached out to the network for comment.) One of Nickelodeon’s brightest stars in the 2010s was Jennette McCurdy, who played the petulant prankster Sam Puckett for six seasons on iCarly before coleading Sam & Cat, a spin-off costarring Ariana Grande that lasted just a single season.

Jennette McCurdy reveals in her new memoir, "I'm Glad My Mom Died," the moment that "broke" her while working with Ariana Grande at Nickelodeon.

And I imagine there’s a very different experience to be had with acting if you’re proud of your roles, and if you feel fulfilled by them.” “My friends at 15, they’re not like, ‘Oh, cool, you’re on this Nickelodeon show.’ It was embarrassing. “My experience with acting is, I’m so ashamed of the parts I’ve done in the past,” she said on the “Empty Inside” podcast in early 2021.

Jennette McCurdy is opening up about her time at Nickelodeon as a child star in her new memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died. The now 30-year-old was 15 when she ...

“That was the moment I broke.” McCurdy wrote in her memoir that she was “photographed in a bikini at a wardrobe fitting” and was “encouraged to drink alcohol by an intimidating figure,” whom she referred to as “the Creator.” In a New York Times profile published this week, McCurdy claims she was “exploited” and said there were “cases where people had the best intentions and maybe didn’t know what they were doing.”

Jennette McCurdy, 30, detailed the many problems she faced while appearing on her hit TV show "iCarly" in her upcoming memoir, "I'm Glad My Mom Died," ...

“That was the moment I broke.” “I’m sitting in the waiting room mustering up all my sadness when something shifts in me. “Everything’s going to be different now. Everything’s going to be better. And also cases where they did — they knew exactly what they were doing.” There were cases where people had the best intentions and maybe didn’t know what they were doing.

In her new memoir, Jennette McCurdy alleges Nickelodeon offered her hush money in exchange for staying silent about her experiences with the unnamed figure.

“I’ve come to terms with the fact that I don’t like acting,” McCurdy writes. I want to say something, to tell him to stop, but I’m so scared of offending him,” McCurdy writes in an excerpt from the memoir obtained by Vanity Fair where she recalls one meeting with The Creator. “’Oh, right,” he says, remembering his train of thought without my help. “My shoulders do have a lot of knots in them, but I don’t want The Creator to be the one rubbing them out.

Jennette McCurdy writes about "terrifying" behavior by a man she calls "The Creator" on the sets of Nickelodeon's 'iCarly' and 'Sam & Cat.'

“The way I see it now is, that decision came from self-righteousness,” she writes. She also writes about someone she calls “The Creator” in relation to her time on the Nick shows. It was so commonplace, his behavior, and it was so accepted because everyone was scared of losing their job. It really seems like there’s not much of a moral compass there.” When Sam & Cat ended after one season in 2014, McCurdy has said there was talk of a $300,000 “thank-you gift” from Nickelodeon if she agreed to never talk publicly about her experiences at the network, specifically in relation to the behavior of “The Creator.” But it was really unfortunate; everything that happened in a children’s television series environment.

Jennette McCurdy opened up about the "abuse" that she received from her mother Debra McCurdy throughout her childhood and how she came to terms with it ...

It was through consistent work and exploration that it became freeing and healing." "That got me to the point where I was able to accept my mom was abusive," she said. "I was still very much the person I was while my mom was alive. "She had all the standard stage mom phrases ready to make sure that if I even expressed the slightest bit of discomfort, it was bam, no, that's not allowed." It was abuse." "What would happen if anybody tried to step in was my mom would completely turn off toward them.

'iCarly' and 'Sam & Cat' star Jennette McCurdy says in her new memoir that Nickelodeon offered her $300000 not to talk about her experiences there.

McCurdy said she quit acting a few years ago, because it was her mother’s dream for her to become an actor and not her own. In an anecdote about having another “frequent” dinner with “the Creator” while her contract for the spinoff was being worked out, McCurdy says he pushed her — at 18 — to have a sip of his spiked coffee. It’s to the point where he’s no longer allowed to be on set with any actors, which makes communication in between takes complicated,” she explained of the grueling working environment that his alleged behavior led to. Shouldn’t they at least try to report to some sort of ethical standard?” I wouldn’t be on this s— show saying these s— lines on this s— set with this s— hairstyle,” she writes. I resent being a good sport. “I’m done being a good sport. If I wasn’t such a good sport to begin with, I wouldn’t be in this predicament in the first place. Shouldn’t they have some sort of moral compass? I like being his favorite for now. It wasn’t just a slap-on-the-wrist sort of thing. My personal experience of The Creator’s abuse?” she writes.