Over the weekend break, star Matthew Underwood introduced a dark background with his previous agent. The ‘Zoey 101’ celebrity declared the agent had actually sexually attacked him at age 19. He shared the delicate details in an extensive social media sites blog post.
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Matthew Details Several Violating Incidents
Underwood began his blog post by disclosing that people online have actually been touching him for a response to the ‘Quiet on Set.’ The docuseries highlights the “toxic” society of numerous youngsters’s programs from the late 1990s up until the very early 2000s.
In it, Drake Bell disclosed his discussion train Brian Peck repetitively sexually attacked him while collaborating with the network. He was 15 when it initially started.
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In his social media sites expose, Matthew Underwood outlined a comparable experience both as a pre-teen and well established youngster celebrity. When he was 12, Underwood alleges his friends’ stepfather “groomed and molested” him. He quit being pals with the children since he really felt “personal disgust and betrayal” by a male he had actually relied on like a papa.
Then, at 19, something comparable dropped. This time a previous agent “sexually harassed and then assaulted” him. Matthew Underwood confessed that the going against experience drove him far from acting.
“Again, my trust was betrayed and my self-image crushed. I reported him to the agency and he has since been fired — although he is still active in the industry. This experience provoked my move away from LA and ended my pursuit of acting.”
Matthew cleared up that he’s sharing his experience since he and various other “friends in the business” have actually been obtaining bugged if they haven’t talked on the ‘Quiet On Set’ docuseries. He alleges individuals have actually recommended he and his mom can “die” or “burn in hell.” He likewise declares he’s been called a “pedophile defender.”
“…I’m sharing this with hope that some of you can recognize that just because a person doesn’t shout from the rooftops that pedophiles are bad or that people can suck, that does not mean they don’t have their own reasons for staying silent. Good reasons, personal reasons.”
Matthew shared that he has “extreme empathy” for anybody “taken advantage of by the people they trusted.”
What Matthew Underwood Said About Dan Schneider
Underwood accompanied his declaration regarding the attack with remarks regarding his experience collaborating with Dan Schneider and Nickelodeon.
“I never had a bad experience working on set of a Nickelodeon show and I never had a bad experience with Dan. I have nothing to add to the conversation that anyone would care to hear. I like to believe that people have the capacity to be better humans and Dan appears to recognize that he had been an a**hole in his past.”
Matthew shut his declaration by making clear that he does NOT assistance pedophiles and asking for that individuals quit desiring fatality on his family members.
Swipe listed below to review his complete declaration.
As formerly reported, Dan shared a public apology complying with the launch of ‘Quiet on Set.’ He called the accusations in the docuseries “difficult” to view. He likewise discussed getting on Drake Bell’s side instantly after discovering the claimed sexual assault from Brian Peck.
But not all the previous Nickelodeon celebrities were really feeling Dan’s public apology. In reality, Alexa Nikolas, Matthew Underwood’s ‘Zoey 101’ co-star, didn’t hold her tongue regarding the apology failing.
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