Jennette McCurdy

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.

The new excerpt from I'm Glad My Mom Died includes scenes from a dinner McCurdy had with The Creator while the Sam and Cat spin-off was being worked out, and ...

In a 2021 interview with The New York Times, Schneider denied acting inappropriately with people he worked with. She also recalls the fallout on set after The Creator got in trouble “for accusations of his emotional abuse,” adding, “I feel like it’s been a long time coming, and should have happened a lot sooner.” The excerpt ends with a relieved McCurdy learning that Sam and Cat had been canceled after just one season.

'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.

The iCarly star says Nickelodeon offered her hush money in order for her not to go public with the alleged abuse she faced behind the scenes.

McCurdy writes that her manager was talking about experiences “specifically related to The Creator.” McCurdy starred in the original run of “ iCarly” on Nickelodeon before getting her own network spinoff series, “Sam & Cat.” The actor writes about the day she found out her show was being canceled. According to McCurdy, “The Creator” encouraged her to drink alcohol when she was only 18 years old and also massaged her shoulders in an inappropriate manner.