Within the wake of headline-making docuseries Quiet on Set, its topic Dan Schneider is going through new claims of sexual misconduct.
Former All That star Lori Beth Denberg tells Enterprise Insider, in an interview performed by Quiet on Set govt producer Kate Taylor, that Schneider performed pornography for her, lashed out at her on set and as soon as initiated cellphone intercourse.
In 1995, the highly effective children TV producer, who served as head author on All That, known as Denberg into his workplace, telling her {that a} feminine producer had met with him to debate Denberg’s weight achieve. He was reportedly upset and informed Denberg he ought to’ve been the one to speak together with her, since he “understood what it was wish to be obese,” Enterprise Insider writes.
The dialog shifted, Denberg says, and Schneider confirmed Denberg, who was 19 on the time, pornography clips on his pc. This included a video of a lady performing oral intercourse on a donkey. “I really feel like that’s the first time he preyed on me,” the previous Nickelodeon star informed the publication.
She says that Schneider’s inappropriate dynamic together with her began with frequent cellphone calls. He would discuss intercourse together with her, she claims, and at one level, he took it additional, initiating cellphone intercourse, Denberg says. When the All That manufacturing moved from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1996, Denberg would go to Schneider’s house, sleeping over at instances.
Denberg says that she and Schneider initially didn’t have intercourse throughout her sleepovers at his house, however they might give one another massages, and he would present her porn. Nonetheless, their relationship shifted to being sexual a few years later, she says.
The actress says that one night time, when she was at Schneider’s house, the 2 have been watching Jeopardy! and made a guess to see who may guess probably the most solutions accurately. The winner’s prize could be a therapeutic massage. When Denberg received, Schneider fondled her breasts and put his mouth on them.
Denberg says that for some time she didn’t assume his habits was inappropriate, on condition that she was not a minor on the time of their dynamic changing into sexual, however has since realized the facility dynamic he took benefit of. She informed the publication that the rationale why she felt she couldn’t flip down Schneider was as a result of her job was on the road.
One more reason why she was scared to confront him, she says, was his unhealthy mood. She explains that Schneider would typically have outbursts, which have been a problem on set. She remembers that whereas out to dinner with writers and crew members, Schneider requested the group if that they had observed that Denberg’s breasts have been totally different sizes.
Denberg, who was 18 or 19 on the time, threw a bread roll at Schneider so he would cease the inappropriate feedback. Nonetheless, he responded by screaming at her, then strolling out of the dinner. “It was a type of turns that was simply actually upsetting and scary,” she says. “Everybody else appeared to utterly blow it off.”
A former All That crew member, who remained nameless, tells Enterprise Insider that Schneider relished humiliating Denberg on set. In a single state of affairs, Schneider, the crew member says, made Denberg wait on a chilly soundstage whereas soaking moist to movie a “Sweaty Girl” sketch.
Denberg additionally says that Schneider wouldn’t write jokes for her recurring section “Very important Data” till the final minute, not giving her time to rehearse earlier than she needed to carry out dwell, which she sees as a “energy play” on Schneider’s half.
After leaving All That in 1998, Denberg, who developed a friendship with Amanda Bynes, was invited by the younger star to go to the Amanda Present set. Whereas there, she observed that Bynes seemed “gaunt” and grew involved about Bynes.
She says she informed All That co-creator Brian Robbins, now a part of a trio of execs working Paramount International, about her considerations for Bynes, bursting into tears. In keeping with Denberg, Robbins didn’t ask any observe up questions and stated Schneider “hadn’t had it straightforward both,” Enterprise Insider writes.
Denberg later determined to talk with Albie Hecht, who was the president of Nickelodeon Leisure on the time. At first, he appeared to take her considerations critically, calling her to say the community had made modifications to Bynes’ capturing schedule.
Nonetheless, Denberg later discovered by a pal who labored on The Amanda Present that there was an image of her hanging in a guard shack, pointing to her as somebody who was amongst these banned from set.
In a press release shared with The Hollywood Reporter, Schneider denied Denberg’s allegations. “Lori Beth’s accusations of me are wildly exaggerated and, normally, false,” he stated. “The truth that an govt producer of Quiet on Set would pursue allegations concerning what might have occurred between adults practically 30 years in the past — solely every week after I filed a defamation lawsuit accusing Quiet on Set of being deliberately false and deceptive — appears greater than coincidental.”
Schneider continued, “As I’ve beforehand acknowledged, there have been instances, significantly within the early years of my profession, that I made errors and exhibited poor judgment as a pacesetter. If I did that with respect to Lori Beth, I sincerely apologize to her. However I can not apologize for issues I didn’t do.”
Nickelodeon and Paramount haven’t but responded to THR‘s requests for remark