Nickelodeon and overbearing mother 'failed to protect her,' McCurdy claims in new memoir 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
She says her overbearing mother and the television industry were both to blame, as they "failed to protect her," according to the"My whole childhood and adolescence were very exploited," McCurdy said. "…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.
According to the New York Times, McCurdy, 30, wrote in her memoir about embarrassing moments on the children’s television network when she was asked to be "photographed in a bikini during a wardrobe fitting and being encouraged to drink alcohol by an intimidating figure she simply calls the Creator."
After McCurdy starred on "iCarly," Nickelodeon promised her a spinoff series of her own, but walked back on their offer and madeMcCurdy says she felt undermined by the network as they discouraged her from exploring other career opportunities outside the show. However, those rules did not seem to apply to Grande.
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