Overview
- On the Call Her Daddy podcast, McCurdy said she was 17 or 18 when she became involved with a man in his mid-30s whom she met at work on iCarly.
- She described pressured sexual encounters, including a hotel episode where the man arrived drunk, requested oral sex, and told her he would guide her through it.
- McCurdy characterized the dynamic as manipulative, with the man emphasizing his needs as she tried to honor a plan to wait until marriage shaped by her Mormon, homeschooled upbringing.
- She said he lived with a girlfriend during their involvement and only discussed leaving that partner after she said she could not continue.
- The relationship tapered around her mother’s death in 2013, they briefly reconnected, and revisiting the experience for Half His Age stirred unresolved anger ahead of the book’s release later this month.