alum Daniella Monet hasn’t, and “probably won’t” ever, watch . The actress also said this week she “came out unscathed” amid ongoing revelations about abuse on the network’s various shows throughout the early aughts and 2010s. “I never watched it.
I probably won’t,” Monet said in a preview of this week’s podcast from . Monet played Trina Vega on Nickelodeon’s . Investigation Discovery’s was a five-party docuseries that detailed allegations of abuse, sexism, racism and inappropriate behavior involving underage stars and crewmembers on Nickelodeon TV show sets run by Dan Schneider.
Since the documentary’s release, Schneider has released an apology, and also for defamation. “I feel lucky that like, I came out unscathed and I don’t know anyone who’s been deeply affected outside of the things that were mentioned in that documentary that I didn’t know about, which was really hard to process,” she said. Monet added that she was already 19 by the time she was cast on , older than many other stars who have spoken out about their experiences.
“I was an adult and I’d also grown up in the industry whereas like most of my cast, except for Victoria [Justice] of course, like they were kind of green,” she said. She continued that though her older perspective allowed her to “navigate certain dynamics in a way that [felt] right for me” and kept her “feeling safe,” there were “tones” that “didn’t necessarily always feel safe or normal..
