Alexa Nikolas Says Dan Schneider At Wardrobe Fittings

You know Alexa Nikolas from her efficiency as Nicole Bristow on the basic Nickelodeon TV present Zoey 101, which she appeared on from 2005 to 2006.

Over the previous a number of months, Alexa has been talking out and publicly protesting in opposition to Nickelodeon’s remedy of kid actors, usually holding an indication that claims “Nickelodeon didn’t protect me.”

In a current look on the Real Pod podcast, Alexa talked about her expertise on Zoey 101 and says that the present’s creator, Dan Schneider, would usually attend her wardrobe fittings. She was 13 years outdated when she began on the present.

“Whenever I had wardrobe fittings, [Dan] always had to be in them,” Alexa alleged. “Thank God there was a curtain, however he was actually on a chair proper outdoors of the curtain.”

Alexa additionally alleged that Dan would ask to “have the Polaroids” of the wardrobe becoming after it occurred, and that it is not all the time the case that present creators attend particular person wardrobe fittings. She additionally opened up concerning the wardrobe selections she was given as properly.

“I had to wear very short skirts,” she mentioned. “Something that [in] the interviews that I’ve completed that I have not talked about but was that I needed to put on biker shorts beneath my skirts, and so they needed to reduce the biker shorts as a result of the skirts have been too quick…I used to be always having to roll down these biker shorts.”

As beforehand talked about, Alexa protested outdoors Nickelodeon’s HQ in August following the discharge of Jennette McCurdy’s memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, which referred to a determine at Nickelodeon often known as “The Creator” who gave her alcohol underage and a therapeutic massage with out her consent.

“I did not feel protected at Nickelodeon as a child, personally,” Alexa mentioned on the time. “So I’m demanding that Nickelodeon starts protecting children and not predators.”

She additionally mentioned that Dan was “the creator of my childhood trauma.” “I did not feel safe around Dan Schneider while working at Nickelodeon,” she mentioned. “Actually every time he came on set my body got extremely tense.”

“There was footage on Zoey 101 alone that when I look back now, I’m deeply uncomfortable by it,” she additionally mentioned. “An adult should know how that could be seen to others…Nobody did anything about the abuse that was happening on the set of Zoey 101.“

Read extra about Alexa’s protest right here.

Listen to Alexa’s podcast interview right here.

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