Kenan Thompson says he feels for many who have been mistreated whereas working as youngster stars at Nickelodeon again within the day — however he additionally makes clear … he simply wasn’t considered one of them.
The comic hopped on the ‘Tamron Corridor Present’ Wednesday, the place he was plugging his “Good Burger 2” film — which, sarcastically, is a Nickelodeon manufacturing — and he was requested level clean what he fabricated from all of the horror tales that surfaced in ‘Quiet on Set.’
Kenan says, “It’s a tough subject because, it’s tough for me because I can’t really speak on things that I’ve never witnessed … Because all these things happened after I left, basically, and Dan [Schneider] wasn’t really on ‘Kenan & Kel’ like that.”
He goes on to say Dan Schneider would possibly get credit score as a creator of the sequence, however there was truly a special showrunner — in different phrases, KT is saying he did not cope with Schneider very a lot.
Of all of the alleged mistreatment happening at Nick, Kenan says, “I wasn’t really aware of a lot of it, but my heart goes out to anybody that’s been victimized or their families, you know what I mean? I mean I think it’s a good thing that the doc is out and it’s putting things on display that need to be, you know, stories that need to be told for this, accountability sake.”
He says it is a powerful factor to digest, as a result of he personally has fond recollections of his Nick days … although, a number of his costars clearly had a foul expertise with the community.
Kenan is simply the most recent former youngster star to speak out in regards to the documentary — Josh Peck stated one thing final week, this in mild of his costar Drake Bell detailing the abuse he endured whereas working for Nick.
In fact, there are scores of different ex-child stars we now have but to listen to from … huge ones too.
