Dan Schneider is apologizing for his behavior depicted on Investigation Discovery’s Quiet On Set and vows to holds himself accountable for how he acted on his Nickelodeon shows in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Schneider’s comments were made to BooG!e, who played T-Bo on iCarly and watched the IG series. He reached out to Schneider to ask him some questions about the docuseries and to give him a platform to respond.
“When I watched the show, I could see the hurt in some people’s eyes and it made me feel awful and regretful and sorry,” Schneider says. “I wish I could go back, especially to those earlier years of my career, and bring the growth and the experience that I have now and just do a better job and never, ever feel like it was okay to be an asshole to anyone, ever.”
Schneider goes on to say he never ever should have asked for massages and crossed the line in the writer’s room with some of the jokes he told and the pranks that he pulled. He’s even calling for some of his old jokes to be cut from reruns of his old shows.
The first two installments that dropped Sunday were meant to reveal “an insidious environment rife with allegations of abuse, sexism, racism, and inappropriate dynamics with its underage stars and crew,” according to ID. The next two episodes aired Monday.
More to come…