Jennette McCurdy Shares Extra Troubling Claims About Her Mother

On the July 10 episode of the “Louis Theroux Podcast,” Jennette McCurdy elaborated additional on the bodily and sexual abuse she endured from her late mom Debra, together with being pressured to bathe together with her till was 17 or 18. She recalled to Theroux, “She can be within the bathe with me, shampooing and conditioning my hair, washing my physique. She would give me breast and vaginal exams within the bathe and mentioned that she was checking for lumps, she was simply checking for most cancers.” Regardless of her mom being totally clothed within the bathe, McCurdy mentioned she felt uncomfortable and violated by her mom’s actions. “I knew I did not need it,” she mentioned. “However the one time I had tried to even say, ‘Hey, do you assume I might bathe myself?’ She flew into hysterics and it simply turned clear to me. ‘Oh, I can not ever attempt to bathe myself once more.'”

McCurdy mentioned it wasn’t till her mom battled breast most cancers in 2013 that she was capable of bathe all by herself. Showing on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Skilled” podcast in 2022, the previous Nickelodeon star admitted that she had a tough time processing her mom’s bodily abuse. “That was the toughest to write down about [in my book],” she mentioned. “I used to be simply so proof against it.”

In case you or somebody you understand stands out as the sufferer of kid abuse, please contact the Childhelp Nationwide Youngster Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Youngster (1-800-422-4453) or contact their dwell chat companies.