Ariana Grande Reflects on Nickelodeon Experience on 'Victorious' & 'Sam & Cat' Amid 'Quiet on Set' Doc Allegations

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Ariana Grande is opening up about her time at Nickelodeon. The 30-year-old “The Boy Is Mine” singer appeared on the latest episode of Podcrushed, hosted by her most recent music video’s co-star, Penn Badgley.

During the conversation, she opened up about being a child star, and her relationship to fame, as well as her time on Victorious and Sam & Cat as Cat Valentine. Keep reading to find out more… “I was 14 and I flew out to audition with Liz Gillies for Victorious, and we were all very excited and we got cast and it was the best news we could hear,” she recalled. “We were young performers who just wanted to do this with our lives more than anything, and we got to and that was so beautiful.

I think we had some very special memories, and we feel so privileged to have been able to create those roles and be a part of something that was so special for a lot of young kids.” Ariana added that now she’s “reprocessing [my] relationship to it a little bit now, if that makes sense.” While Dan Schneider wasn’t directly addressed, nor the Investigation Discovery documentary Quiet on Set, Ariana said it’s been “devastating” to hear stories from former child actors, calling them “survivors.” (Dan Schneider is currently suing the documentary’s producers for defamation.) “I think the environment needs to be made safer if kids are going to be acting, and I think there should be therapists,” Ariana says. “I think parents should allowed to be wherever they want to be, and I think not only on kids’ sets.

If anyone wants to do this, or music, or anything at this level of exposure, there should be in the contract something about therapy is mandatory twice a week or thrice a week, or something like that.” “I was actually talking to Max Martin