Jennette McCurdy Says Nickelodeon Offered Her $300,000 as 'Hush Money'
05.08.2022 - 19:59
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Jennette McCurdy is speaking out.
The 30-year-old iCarly star opened up in her new memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, out on August 12, about working at Nickelodeon as a teenager.
In the book, she claims that the network offered her $300,000 if she agreed to not speak about her experiences there, via Newsweek.
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“This feels to me like hush money,” she recalled saying at the time. She said she rejected the offer, and also said she was encouraged to drink alcohol at work while still underage, and was photographed in a bikini at a wardrobe fitting.
She referred to the person responsible as “The Creator,” but did not expressly identify them by name.
“The Creator” reportedly also massaged her shoulders in an inappropriate manner, via Variety, writing: “My shoulders do have a lot of knots in them, but I don’t want The Creator to be the one rubbing them out. I want to say something, to tell him to stop, but I’m so scared of offending him.”
“They’re giving you $300,000 and the only thing they want you to do is never talk publicly about your experience at Nickelodeon,” one of her managers told her, talking about experiences “specifically related to The Creator.”
Her team said it was “free money,” to which she said: “No it’s not. This isn’t free money. This feels to me like hush money…I’m not taking hush money,” she writes.
“What the f–k? Nickelodeon is offering me $300,000 in hush money to not talk publicly about my experience on the show? My personal experience of The Creator’s abuse? This is a network with shows made for children. Shouldn’t they have some sort of moral compass? Shouldn’t they at least try to report to some sort of ethical standard?…I lean back against the headboard of my bed and cross my