Within the wake of Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Youngsters TV, a documentary sequence exploring the disturbing allegations of misconduct on varied units in the course of the heyday of Nickelodeon, additional particulars have emerged about notorious producer Dan Schneider. Lori Beth Denberg, who starred within the authentic solid of All That, opened up about her deeply inappropriate interactions with Schneider in a brand new interview with Enterprise Insider.
Schneider was head author on All That all through the 4 seasons through which Denberg appeared, and the interview with Enterprise Insider particulars an alleged occasion shortly after Denberg’s nineteenth birthday through which Schneider requested for a gathering, then started exhibiting the actress clips of pornography on his pc. Denberg claimed that the “grand finale” of footage confirmed a lady performing oral intercourse on a donkey.
Later within the interview, Denberg recollects alleged sleepovers that occurred at Schneider’s dwelling, massages that devolved into sexual touching, and cellphone intercourse initiated by Schneider, most of which occurred when Denberg was nonetheless a young person.
The claims of Schneider exhibiting pornography within the office align with different allegations featured in Quiet On Set, the place a author on The Amanda Present named Jenny Kilgen claimed that Schneider would present his employees pornography to “see how far he may push.”
Following the preliminary launch of Quiet on Set, Schneider sued the producers of the docuseries for defamation. He additionally replied to Enterprise Insider, saying, “As I’ve beforehand acknowledged, there have been occasions, significantly within the early years of my profession, that I made errors and exhibited poor judgment as a frontrunner.” He continued, “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.”
Schneider additionally criticized the timing of Denberg’s interview, calling its arrival so near his defamation swimsuit “greater than coincidental.” He doubled down on his stance, calling her allegations “wildly exaggerated and, normally, false.”
Denberg confirmed that Quiet on Set inspired her to talk out intimately concerning the upsetting episodes with Schneider and hoped others would have the ability to do the identical, saying, “There’s proper and incorrect, and there’s true and false.”
