Greatest identified for originating Sam Puckett on the Nickelodeon sequence and later reprising the position on Sam & Cat with Ariana Grande, Jennette McCurdy defined on her Empty Inside podcast that not solely has she stopped performing, however her Hollywood success does not fill her with delight. 

“I give up a couple of years in the past as a result of I initially did not wish to do it,” she shared in a March 2021 episode, happening to clarify that her mother had inspired her to start out performing at a younger age, and that her gigs ended up supporting her household financially. However she determined to alter profession paths after her mother died in 2013 following a battle with most cancers. 

“My expertise with performing is, I am so ashamed of the elements I’ve accomplished up to now,” McCurdy continued. “I resent my profession in plenty of methods. I really feel so unfulfilled by the roles that I performed and felt prefer it was essentially the most tacky, embarrassing. I did the reveals that I used to be on from like 13 to 21, and by 15, I used to be already embarrassed. My associates at 15, they are not like, ‘Oh, cool, you are on this Nickelodeon present.’ It was embarrassing.”