On the July 10 episode of the “Louis Theroux Podcast,” Jennette McCurdy elaborated further on the physical and sexual abuse she endured from her late mother Debra, including being forced to shower with her until was 17 or 18. She recalled to Theroux, “She would be in the shower with me, shampooing and conditioning my hair, washing my body. She would give me breast and vaginal exams in the shower and said that she was checking for lumps, she was just checking for cancer.” Despite her mother being fully clothed in the shower, McCurdy said she felt uncomfortable and violated by her mother’s actions. “I knew I didn’t want it,” she said. “But the one time I had attempted to even say, ‘Hey, do you think I could shower myself?’ She flew into hysterics and it just became clear to me. ‘Oh, I can’t ever try to shower myself again.'”
McCurdy said it wasn’t until her mother battled breast cancer in 2013 that she was able to shower all by herself. Appearing on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast in 2022, the former Nickelodeon star admitted that she had a rough time processing her mother’s physical abuse. “That was the hardest to write about [in my book],” she said. “I was just so resistant to it.”
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If you or someone you know may be the victim of child abuse, please contact the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child (1-800-422-4453) or contact their live chat services.
