{"id":215609,"date":"2026-01-09T07:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/jennette-mccurdy-talks-dating-an-older-man-at-18-how-she-was-a-virgin-when-they-met\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:12:40","slug":"jennette-mccurdy-talks-dating-an-older-man-at-18-how-she-was-a-virgin-when-they-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/jennette-mccurdy-talks-dating-an-older-man-at-18-how-she-was-a-virgin-when-they-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennette McCurdy Talks Dating an Older Man at 18 &#038; How She Was a Virgin When They Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jennette-mccurdy\/\" title=\"Jennette Mccurdy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jennette McCurdy<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about how the age-gap relationship she entered into at the age of 18. <\/p>\n<p>When the <em>iCarly <\/em>actress was only 18, she dated a man in his 30s and that relationship has served as the inspiration for her new novel \u201cHalf His Age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennette<\/strong> sat down for an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/alex-cooper\/\" title=\"Alex Cooper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alex Cooper<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s <em>Call Her Daddy<\/em> podcast and shed a lot of details about the relationship, including how they met at work, he would come over when he was drunk, and how she was a virgin when they met.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2171012\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amid the comments, fans have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/08\/jennette-mccurdy-dating-history-all-of-her-ex-boyfriends-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking back at <strong>Jennette<\/strong>\u2018s dating history to try and figure out <\/a>who she\u2019s talking about. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jennette McCurdy: Half His Age\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DxOA8LF6dSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>You can read a transcript of the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Cooper: How did you guys meet? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennette McCurdy<\/strong>: Through work. There\u2019s nowhere to meet anybody else. All I did was work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: You met at work, so you are a young actor at the time. Were you 17 when you met him? 16?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: I think I was 18 by the time he started working on the show. I think. I\u2019m not sure about that. It\u2019s possible I was younger, but I was at least eighteen. I was most likely 18.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: And how did this relationship start?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: A lot of hanging out on set, a lot of hanging around the writers room. We would hang out in the writers\u2019 room after work. He would show me movies that he thought I would like, like \u201cDazed and Confused,\u201d which I did not like, but I pretended to like. He would play me music that he liked, which I did not like, but I pretended to like. It\u2019s also like, why do they all have terrible taste? They have such a bad taste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: Or, Jennette, pause. Maybe it\u2019s because they\u2019re 30 f\u2013king whatever and you\u2019re 18, so there\u2019s no way you\u2019re gonna have the same taste. Maybe when you get to that age, you actually would \u201clike that movie or that song, but how are you at 17, 18, gonna even-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: I still don\u2019t like it. I still think these things are trash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: You\u2019re like, \u201cActually f\u2013k that sh-t. F\u2013k that sh-t,\u201d but you know what I mean? Half the time, they\u2019re showing you sh-t. You\u2019re like, \u201cWho? What?\u201d and everyone else in the room that\u2019s at age probably knows what that is, because they\u2019re of the same decade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: Yes. Yes, exactly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: Okay, so you guys start hanging out, and then how does it progress to a relationship?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: He comes over. The feelings part of it, like us saying our feelings, I don\u2019t remember the sort of nature of that, but I remember him coming over really drunk one night to my apartment. At this point, I\u2019ve moved out of my mom\u2019s place. I\u2019m very new. Also, red flags all over. I\u2019ve been living away from my mom for maybe two months, and I\u2019m like, \u201cGreat, okay, a relationship, that\u2019ll be great,\u201d and he comes over and he has beer stains on his shirt, and he\u2019s bumbling around and at this point in my life, I\u2019ve never had a sip of alcohol, so I don\u2019t understand how drunk he is. Now I go, \u201cOkay, he was drunk off his ass,\u201d but I didn\u2019t know, did you drink one drink and that\u2019s how drunk you are? How drunk is one drink? How drunk is 10 drinks? I had no frame of reference, so he just comes over really drunk and we make out. It\u2019s a lot of dry humping and it\u2019s that for months and I tell him, at that point, I was still very, I was no longer going to church, but I was still kind of tied to my Mormon roots and didn\u2019t want sex before marriage and didn\u2019t feel ready for that and I certainly was not, in terms of maturity, and so he and I just made out a lot and kind of dry humped a lot. Very high school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: What do you remember about how you felt about the age gap?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: Thinking that I was mature, thinking that I was so smart that this could happen, and also, I hadn\u2019t really felt a deep connection with anybody my age at that point yet. I had felt one connection with a friend, a female friend who I still love to this day, but she was seven years older than me, so not nearly the age gap that it was between he and I, but I remember thinking like, \u201cOh yeah, there\u2019s just something about me that\u2019s a little different. I\u2019m special.\u201d That\u2019s what it felt like for me. \u201cI\u2019m special. I can connect with older people. Younger people aren\u2019t on my wavelength.\u201d Like, please.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: And how did he talk about it and justify it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: Like that. Like that. Like f\u2013king that. It was, you know, \u201cYou\u2019re so mature. I can\u2019t talk to anyone this way. I can\u2019t believe how smart you are.\u201d Are you kidding me? I was such an idiot. I\u2019m so embarrassed. Also, how humiliating that he thought that was smart or even used it as being smart as a manipulation tactic because how stupid of him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: You just obviously referenced that you were a virgin when you met him and you were wanting to wait for marriage. How did that impact the way that sex played a role in this relationship? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: Okay, this begs for a story. He, okay, so we had a plan. He had a girlfriend. Did I say this? <\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: No.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM:<\/strong> He had a girlfriend. Okay. Felt a lot of guilt and shame about that for a long time. <\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: He had a girlfriend while you were seeing him? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: While I was seeing him, yes. While the dry hump make out sessions were happening, he had a girlfriend that he lived with. <\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: That he lived with?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: That he lived with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: So where were you guys hanging out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: My apartment. <\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: How did he explain the girlfriend to you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM:<\/strong> That he\u2019s in a relationship and he, oh man, I can\u2019t believe, yeah, it was tricky because it was initially positioned to me as sort of like, \u201cI\u2019m not going to leave her. I\u2019m not going to leave her, but I want this.\u201d Which is, I mean, come on, right? \u201cI\u2019m not going to leave, but I want to pursue this with you.\u201d So it\u2019s like, don\u2019t get your hopes up. I can have my cake and eat it too, but you can\u2019t. You\u2019re going to not have any cake, but I get to have my cake and eat it too. And this went on for, I think we started, like the physical relationship began in maybe August. And by October, November, I was starting to feel like I can\u2019t do this anymore. Like it\u2019s too difficult to want something this bad to feel this at the disposal of someone else\u2019s kind of whims and availabilities. And it\u2019s these half hour pockets here and there. And like, I just have to be at his, every beck and call. And then when he calls and I\u2019ll go, whatever. And it was just exhausting. It was exhausting and I couldn\u2019t do it anymore. And then finally, once I say that, suddenly it\u2019s, \u201cI\u2019m going to leave my girlfriend. I need to be with you. I\u2019m going to leave my girlfriend.\u201d Which what great messaging to send to an 18 year old. It\u2019s like the whole, the whole process was just so twisted. And so I think, \u201cOkay, is he going to leave his girlfriend? I hope he\u2019s going to leave his girlfriend. I want to be with him.\u201d Whatever. His plan is that he\u2019s going to go home for Christmas break, which he actually does go home, but he\u2019s going to say that the trip is longer than it is. And he\u2019s actually going to be staying at his friend\u2019s place. And I\u2019m going to go stay with him at his friend\u2019s place. We\u2019re going to have a couple nights to ourselves, which I didn\u2019t realize then, of course, I realize now was like the trial period, seeing, \u201cOkay, does this actually work? Can I, do I actually have enough in common with an 18 year old to be with this person? What is this going to look like?\u201d And so we spent those few days together. It went quote unquote well, and he was going to stay firm on leaving his girlfriend. Around this time, my mom had been hospitalized for having, she\u2019d had a seizure. She was hospitalized and then she got out of the hospital and was going to come stay with me at my apartment. But he was going to come stay with me at my apartment because he was breaking up with his f\u2013king girlfriend. So I can\u2019t have my dying mother and my boyfriend she doesn\u2019t know about and would never approve of at my apartment at the same time, right? We have a dilemma on our hands. So I\u2019m going, okay, how do I like treat my dead mother with some, my dying mother, with some kind of respect and how do I keep the place for her? And how do I do this thing? And he\u2019s saying, \u201cI shouldn\u2019t have broken up with her. It was the worst mistake of my life. This is, see, this is what I\u2019m talking about.\u201d Like you can\u2019t, he uses the, \u201cYou can\u2019t meet my needs\u201d thing a lot. And so I go, \u201cOkay, I\u2019ll get us a hotel room. I\u2019ll leave the apartment. I\u2019ll tell my mom I\u2019m hanging out with my friend,\u201d which I did. And she was like very suspicious, very, didn\u2019t matter if she was dying. She still had a mother\u2019s instinct. She was still like, \u201cSomething\u2019s not right about this. Who\u2019s friend, who, how long?\u201d So I ran us a room at the Sheraton Universal, right in  Universal Studios. That was like my idea of like a good hotel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: I also love that we\u2019re not even acknowledging that, why is the 30 whatever year old not getting the hotel room? Why does the 30 year old, does he not have an apartment of his own? Did he, yes, he shared it with the girlfriend. Why didn\u2019t he get the hotel? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: Thank you. Well, you know. <\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: Let the 18 year old do it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: Let the 18 year old do it. Also, I was like, hopefully, maybe we can go on like, the Hogwarts ride. <\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: He\u2019s like, \u201cWhat\u2019s Hogwarts?\u201d You\u2019re like, \u201cOh, right. Sh-t. You don\u2019t know what I like, and I don\u2019t know what you like. Pretend.\u201d Oh, my God. Yeah. Okay. So you\u2019re at the Sheraton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM<\/strong>: He\u2019s completely drunk again doing the bumbling around thing that I didn\u2019t know what that was indication of. And we go into the hotel room and he asks me for a blow job, which I don\u2019t know what that is because I was raised Mormon and because I was homeschooled and I didn\u2019t f\u2013king know. He explains to me what it is and I\u2019m like, \u201cThat sounds kind of weird.\u201d I\u2019m nervous to do this. He\u2019s like, \u201cI\u2019ll guide you through it. I\u2019ll guide you through it,\u201d whatever. He does. And then he\u2019s like, \u201cI\u2019m gonna come\u201d and then it\u2019s squirts in my mouth. I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat was that? What was that? Something came out.\u201d I thought, did he pee in my mouth? What the f\u2013k just happened? I did not know what come was. He explains. And then that was sort of, that was my entry point into, you know, a real form of sexual activity. 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