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Jennette McCurdy Details Teen Relationship With Mid-30s Man in 'Call Her Daddy' Interview

She recounts a power imbalance without naming him to frame the remarks as part of writing 'Half His Age' for closure.

Overview

  • On the podcast, McCurdy said she was 17 or 18 when she began seeing a man in his mid-30s whom she met on the iCarly set.
  • She described clandestine time together, including writers' room hangouts, saying she got brief windows of his attention and was at his "beck and call."
  • McCurdy said he lived with a girlfriend and only considered leaving after she tried to end the relationship, which she characterized as "addictive."
  • She recounted a drunk request for oral sex that left her confused and said she later had sex despite intending to wait for marriage due to her Mormon, homeschooled upbringing.
  • She said the relationship first ended after her mother's death in 2013, and she now points to her novel Half His Age, out January 13, as a way to process lingering anger.