Jennette McCurdy is reckoning with her child-star past in a new memoir, processing a complicated mother-daughter relationship and chronicling the pitfalls of being a young working actress.
Her book, titled, will be released on Aug. 9. «My whole childhood and adolescence were very exploited,» she tearfully tells in a new interview. «It still gives my nervous system a reaction to say it.
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, McCurdy writes in her book about allegedly suffering various indignities during her time on the Nickelodeon series, and its spinoff, .
Among them, the 30-year-old actress claims to have been encouraged to drink alcohol by an «intimidating figure» she refers to only as the Creator.
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