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Jennette McCurdy Reveals Manipulative Teen Relationship Trauma

1/11/2026

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Jennette McCurdy described a troubling teenage relationship with an older man on the Call Her Daddy podcast as exhausting and creepy.
She said he pressured her into intimacy despite her wish to wait until marriage.
McCurdy, homeschooled and raised Mormon, said she initially felt special dating someone older but later recognized manipulation.
She recounted a hotel-room incident where he insisted on sex while drunk.

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Jennette McCurdy described a troubling teenage relationship with an older man on the Call Her Daddy podcast as exhausting and creepy.
She said he pressured her into intimacy despite her wish to wait until marriage.
McCurdy, homeschooled and raised Mormon, said she initially felt special dating someone older but later recognized manipulation.
She recounted a hotel-room incident where he insisted on sex while drunk.