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Sharing years of inner pain, and how she overcame unspeakable abuse. My mom wanted to keep me as controllable as possible, and me growing up was a threat to that. Plus, destination unknown. The latest craze hitting the travel industry. Surprise vacations. Oh, youre going on a trip . Where are you going . I have no idea. Pack your bags, head to the airport. And then we have our envelope that has our destination. Okay, it says no peeking. Russia would you trust someone else to book your vacation . And hey now, youre an all star remembering steve harwell, the lead singer of smashmouth. Nightline will be right back. The purrfect reminder th. Lifes more fun in the deep end. cat 2 yeah so never stop exploring. Always keep it real. cat 1 and do whatever floats your boat just like we do. vo feed their fantasy. Friskies oh stuffed up again . So congested you need sinex saline from vicks. Just sinex, breathe, ahhhh [sniffs] what is wow baby daddy. Sinex. Breathe. Ahhhhhh juju thanks for joining us. Tonight an unexpectedly raw and candid memoir from nickelodeon star turned bestselling author Jennette Mccurdy im glad my mom died mixes humor that stayed on the bestseller list for more than a year. In it she details her struggles offscreen, including eating disorders and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother. Here again our interview. On the outside, i was doing a lot of the performing, the tap dancing of the smile and the showing up and landing on my mark, and im going to just do what i need to do and be this happygolucky nickelodeon kid. My name is samantha puckett, and im from seattle, and i love fried chicken. But inside i was hurting. It was painful. I was angry. I felt unsupported. Juju you pulled back the curtain on childhood stardom. It is not a pretty picture. Not as i see it. Reporter at 15 Jennette Mccurdy was one of the most recognizable child stars on television, playing sam puckett in icarly. To her millions of fans she was known as the funny bff. But she says behind that bubbly onscreen persona, nothing about her real life was funny. For you, what were the pitfalls of child fame . Youre playing an adults game. Youre in an adults world, and you dont recognize that. Youre incapable of being on that level, but you are confused and you think that you are. I think it really leads to stunted personal development. Juju her personal struggles eventually prompting her to abandon acting all together. You say quite frankly this was never your dream. Stardom was never your dream. Whos dream was it . My moms. I think she wanted me to have a better life than she had, but i also think her approach was very unhealthy and informed by her own lack of selfwork. And she lived vicariously through me. Jennette had her first audition at age 6, encouraged by her late mom deborah. Their motherdaughter bomb deeply disordered and chaotic. She says her family struggled financially. Over time, like so many other child stars, her acting paid the bills. It felt like a lot of pressure. And then i think my mom saw my career as a way out of that life of that way of living, of that constant grind. Juju how chaotic was that childhood home . You describe it with one line that stuck with me, that the air in the house felt like a held breath. It was really complicated. My mom also had cancer when i was 2 years old. It was the first time she was diagnosed. So not only was it chaotic because of the abuse that was happening and my moms violent and erratic and unstable behavior, but also because we all lived in fear of her cancer coming back. Juju that volatile relationship is at the center of jennettes dark and deeply personal memoir, im glad my mom died. What made you pick that . I think i earn that title through the writing of the book. But i wanted it to be something that would grab peoples attention and get them to pick up the book and hopefully learn by the end of it why have i chosen that title. Juju from the tender age of 11, she says her mother taught her the dangerous habit of calorie restriction, which would turn into years of eating disorders. In many ways, your child tried to keep you a child. I think my mom wanted to keep me as controllable as possible. I think she really wanted to have her influence on me, and me growing up was a threat to that. Juju is key to that was calorie restriction. Absolutely. I think my mom encouraged and conditioned my anorexia because both she thought it would in some ways help my career and also because it served her goal of keeping me young and under her influence. Juju the book reveals dark episodes of her childhood that for years jennette says she blocked out. She describes how her mother would give her showers and touch her invasively until she was a teenager. She referred to them as medical exams on your private parts. Yes. This is the hardest part of the book for me to write about it. It was a really emotional experience. I laughed during the writing of it and i cried a lot after i wrote that vignette. Juju you talk about basically having outofbody associations, outofbody experiences when this is happening to you. Yeah. Juju what do you think is going on . Ive tried to understand, and that didnt lead me anywhere productive. I would just spin my wheels trying to understand my moms motives. Juju this continued until you were 17 . Yeah. Juju and you describe in the book that you felt violated. Yes, i absolutely felt violated. And eventually accepting that was the most i think integral piece to my own healing and recovery. Juju at the height of her stardom, she landed a spinoff, sam cat starring alongside future superstar ariana grande. She writes about tensions on the set. Say one more time . I said im really smart. Juju you literally wrote i frequently made the mistake of comparing my career to arianas. Yeah. Juju and being everything jealous, of her childhood, jealous of a music career that you dont even want. Sure. I was jealous specifically that she played charades with tom hanks. Thats what got me. Charades with tom hanks. Juju how dare she. I know i was so young at the time, and i think its really hard to not compare yourself to somebody at that age when youre in an environment around them all the time. So i made that mistake repeatedly. And im im glad to be at place now where i wouldnt trade positions with somebody. Juju as the show was airing her mother died of cancer. Jennette says her life was spinning out of control, anorexia morphing into bulimia and example abuse. I was never aiming for bulimia. I was attempting anorexia, but i couldnt keep it up without my mom. I would starve myself for so long and binge and purge because i hated the feeling of fullness. Hated it. Juju it would take jennette years to seek proper help and start therapy to begin grappling with her drama. I couldnt initially accept the idea that my mother was abusive toward me because my whole way of life, my whole way of going through the world was i was operating through this lens of my mom wants whats best for me. Even after she died, im nothing without my mom. I cant do anything without my mom. Im incapable, im incompetent. What would mom want . What does mom need . That accepting that she was abusive would have meant reframing my entire life. And that felt impossible. I couldnt go near that for a long time. Juju jennette says building a new life without her mom began with a stunning decision, to leave acting behind. Why quit acting . It was important for my recovery at the time. It represented my mom living vicariously through me. It represented something that my mom wanted, that i didnt want. It was important for me to step away in a very definitive way and really just focus on completely on healing myself. Juju reflecting back on her career, jennette is critical of the hollywood machine and the world she was exposed to at such a young age. In her book she writes that after sam cat was canceled, nickelodeon offered her a 300,000 thank you gift if she agreed to never speak about her experience at the network, specifically with a man she refers to as the creator, who on one occasion she says encouraged her to drink while she was still under age and gave her a shoulder massage. In response, nickelodeon telling abc news we have no reportable response other than a no comment at this time. I just said no, thats not happening. That sounds like hush money to me. Not doing it. Not taking it. And i do remember leaning against i think i talk about this in the book, i lean against my bed, well, shoot, that could have put my niece through college. That was some good money. But i am ultimately proud of my decision there, wherever it came, from even if it was informed by selfrighteousness, i think i did something that was really hard to do. Oh my god, im proud of myself. Juju why . Why proud of yourself . I think ive chosen integr integrity. And it hasnt always been easy. Juju jennette says shes recovered from years of eating disorders and found a sense of balance for the first time in her life. Whats your body image now and whats your relationship to food like, and how do you sort of go about your day . Im glad you asked this, because when people talk about eating disorder recovery, they talk about it being such an ongoing process that you deal with every single day for the rest of your life, and its always a battle. And i think that kind of language, it doesnt help motive. Im at a place now where i dont obsess about food at all. I havent engaged in any disordered eating behavior for years. Im really proud of that. Juju jennette also says healing also comes through in her writing. She is working on a novel and a collection of essays. And while sees herself as a writer, she hasnt completely ruled out a return to acting. I just wish i could have shown my 20yearold me now. I would have known what i was aiming for. I would have had something to hope for, something to be encouraged for. I didnt have that. Juju what would you have told your 20yearold self . Look at me now, baby. Youre going to be fine, kid, i probably would have said. Juju and up next, destination unknown. Where do you want to go on your next vacation . Cant decide . A new travel trend is leaving it to chance,nd it may be just what you need. When moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis takes you off course. Put it in check with rinvoq, a oncedaily pill. When i wanted to see results fast, rinvoq delivered rapid symptom relief and helped leave bathroom urgency behind. Check. When uc tried to slow me down. 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Reporter what if you could go on a vacation like this . One catch, you have no idea where youre headed. Companies are now offering a new way to get away. For me, i think its just why not have someone else do it . Why not surprise yourself. Reporter Erica Silverman and lexy are Young Professionals living in new york city. But in four week, they could be anywhere in the country. We have no idea where were going. Essentially, its a surprise vacation. Really excited to kind of, a, not plan anything, because all i do is plan things. Reporter the two are going on a surprise vacation, paying the company pack up and go to not tell them where theyre going. This trend is a growing part of the travel industry. Companies offering surprise trips saying theyve seen the demand for their services explode postcovid. Pack up and go sends 7,000 travellers a year around the country. How you explaining it to people at work . Oh, im going on vacation. Thats so fun. Where are you going . Actually, i think its kind of fun. Oh, youre going on a trip . Where are you going . I have no idea. Ill find out when i go. Reporter is your guys budget going in . The recommended budget for two travellers is 1700. So sticking to that. Reporter pack up and go has its clients fill out a comprehensive form. When you travel, what do you prioritize . Definitely food and dining. Reporter laying out everything they would and wouldnt want for their dream trip. We have a real person who is looking to see where this traveller has been recently, where they visit frequently, what they like to do, dietary restrictions, hobbies and interests, and we book it from there. Maybe a week before our trip well get an envelope in the mail that has our destination and recommended itineraries and all of those things. And then we go to the airport and well open the envelope and find out where were going. Reporter you guys know each other well. Who is going to have the harder time not opening the envelope for that week . Me. Im the person that like reads what happens in tv shows. Reporter oh, come on. Ready for our trip . I am. Im so excited reporter two weeks later, after packing for somewhere, they arrived at the airport ready for the big reveal. We have our envelope from pack up and go that has our destination. Okay, it says no peeking. Ready . It is a town . Yay oh my god, yay. Reporter after a short flight, arriving in nashville. Explore. Were just going to end up in the wild. Yes, probably. Reporter the days events . Visiting the Country Music hall of fame. Oh, whoa. Reporter a mustsee for music lover erica. And taking in nationals iconic broadway strip. Home of the late night honky tonks. But that late night stop them from a 13mile bike tour in the morning. Their trip a muchneeded break from daily life. But for others, only a lifechanging vacation will do. For me, when i travel, there has to be meaning behind it. So it absolutely soulsearching and finding meaning. Reporter ester spengler booked a trip with black tomato, a Vacation Company that books clients on surprise trips to deathdefying prices with a hefty price tag. I had this weird childhood fantasy my whole life being on my own, isolated out in the middle of nowhere. I really felt this calling on my life that i was going to go places where nobody had ever been before. Reporter the texas mother of two sent on an 11day journey into the Atlas Mountains of morocco. Were there some days that were just mentally tough . At the very outset of the second day, i had to do this scramble up a pretty steep rocky cliff thing. Reporter right. Whoo i was cold and numb when i started, and i was sweating by the time i got to the top. Reporter to pay the 13k price tag, she started a gofundme, even sold her plasma as a last ditch money making effort. But she says it was all worth it. For the first time in about ten years, something inside of me started its like my heart started beating again. Reporter but not everyone walks away feeling so good. For michael wade and taylor dedrick, that 3,000 surprise was unwelcome. When they signed up for a surprise vacation using a different company, they thought they listed all the places they didnt want to go. We got to the airport. Were sitting in the parking garage. I open it up and its a sheet of paper that has a picture of one of the main buildings of austin, texas. And it says austin with exclamation marks, and i shut it. And i sid are you sure you didnt choose texas as place we didnt want to go. And michael, how did you react . When you saw 80 the paper aun austin . I didnt want to go. Reporter but the couple kept an open mind. We had a wine and barbecue tour that was schedule by them. And we ended up making really good friends with everyone on our tour. Now weve gone to tennessee with them. Reporter even an unexpected envelope managing to turn serendipitous, whether its sending you to the cliffs of morocco or the bars of nashville or a place youve already been. Whether you know where youre going or not. At the end of the day, its still a vacation. There are so few times in our lives as adults that we are genuinely surprised. In a good way. And having something as fun as a vacation that youre already so excited about and already looking forward to and amplifying that by just adding one more element of an anticipation i think is really really exciting for a lot of travelers. Juju our thanks to ashan. Coming up, all star, the life and legacy of former smash mouth lead singer steve harwell. Get the show on, get paid and all that glitters is gold feeling sluggish or weighed down . Could be a sign that your digestive system isnt at its best. But a little metamucil everyday can help. 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