“ You can’t conceit that people around you are having much amain struggles." Miranda Cosgrove responds to Jennette McCurdy...
Miranda Cosgrove responds to Jennette McCurdy
You presumably know that Miranda Cosgrove and Jennette McCurdy starred in iCarly together.
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The two played stylish musketeers in the Nickelodeon hit show and indeed remained musketeers after rephotographing.
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Well this week, extracts of Jennette's bio, I am Glad My mama failed, were published on Vanity Fair. And in the book, Jennette detailed the alleged abuse and exploitation she faced at the hands of a Nickelodeon superintendent she dubbed" The Creator."

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" My whole nonage and nonage were veritably exploited, ” Jennette told the New York Times. “ It still gives my nervous system a response to say it. There were cases where people had the stylish intentions and perhaps did n’t know what they were doing. And also cases where they did they knew exactly what they were doing. ”
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She said The Creator who she described as" mean-spirited, controlling, and intimidating" encouraged her to drink alcohol when she was 14.
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She also said he gave her a shoulder massage without her asking. “ You ’re about to star in your own television show, for crying out loud," Jennette recalled The Creator saying."' You know how numerous kiddies would kill for that occasion? Every last bone of them.' I nod along. He reaches out and places his hand on my knee. I get goosebumps."
Jennette said ultimately The Creator — whom numerous assume is the show's creator, Dan Schneider — had been banned from being on set after being delved for" emotional abuse allegations." She said he'd to give feedback in his" delve - suchlike room off to the side of the soundstage, girdled by piles of cold cuts, his favorite snack, and kiddies ’ Choice Awards."
" I appreciate the quantum of trouble he’s gotten in. It was n’t just a poke on the wrist kind of thing. 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."
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Jennette wrote that Nickelodeon also offered her$,000 to noway speak of what happed. She declined.
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Now, Miranda has reflected on the allegations made in Jennette's bio.
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" When you ’re youthful, you ’re so in your own head," Miranda told the New York Times.
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“ You ca n’t imagine that people around you're having much harder struggles," she said.
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" You do n’t anticipate effects like that from the person in the room who’s making everyone laugh, ” Miranda continued.
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