Jennette McCurdy Details Dating A Man In His 30s When She Was 18

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Jennette McCurdy has been incredibly open about the struggles she faced as a child star, and now she’s revealing another tough relationship that she feels “embarrassed” looking back on. While promoting her upcoming novel Half His Age, McCurdy opened up about her personal connection to the book’s title. In her teenage years, she was involved with a man who was about twice her age — and now, she’s sharing how that dynamic impacted her.

McCurdy spoke about her much older ex during her Jan. 7 appearance on Call Her Daddy, saying he was in his 30s when she dated him as a teenager. “I was most likely 18,” McCurdy said. “He would show me movies that he thought I would like. Like, Dazed and Confused, which I did not like but I pretended to like. He would play me music that I di...