Jennette McCurdy: I was told to drink alcohol as a Nickelodeon child star
nypost.com“I’m Glad My Mom Died,” including one alleged incident where she was photographed in a bikini as a teen during a wardrobe fitting.The shoot with an unidentified person — whom she called the “Creator” — also reportedly pressured her to drink alcohol when she was just a teenager on the network.Her mom Debra, who died in 2013, said moments like this were simply the consequences of fame. “Everyone wants what you have,” Debra reportedly said.“My whole childhood and adolescence were very exploited,” McCurdy told the New York Times ahead of her memoir’s release on Aug.
9. “It still gives my nervous system a reaction to say it. There were cases where people had the best intentions and maybe didn’t know what they were doing.
And also cases where they did — they knew exactly what they were doing.”Elsewhere in the book, McCurdy scribed how she scored her own “iCarly” spinoff, but thought it would be a solo gig.Ariana Grande — who had starred in the Nick sitcom “Victorious” — was offered to be on the spinoff, which became the 2013 show “Sam & Cat.”However, McCurdy claimed she was barred from doing other acting jobs while on the show, but noted this order didn’t seem to apply to Grande, 29.“So Close” singer McCurdy also alleged that she was offered $300,000 in hush money to not publicly speak about her tenure on Nickelodeon.“What finally undid me was when Ariana came whistle-toning in with excitement because she had spent the previous evening playing charades at Tom Hanks’s house,” McCurdy recalled in her book.
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