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Amanda Bynes Breaks Silence on Viral TikTok Claiming She Was Impregnated by Nickelodeon Producer
Amanda Bynes is opening up about a viral TikTok clip that she says was not made by her.
The former Nickelodeon star, 39, recently appeared in a TikTok video posted by an “updates” account dedicated to her life and career.
The video shows Bynes sitting at what appears to be a restaurant table with text over her that reads, “The man I got pregnant with him [sic] at the age of 13!” It then cuts to old video footage of a young Bynes sitting in a hot tub with television producer Dan Schneider, who is seen in a button-up, undershirt and glasses (it is unclear what he is wearing from the waist down since he is in the water).
Schneider, who created Bynes’ The Amanda Show, has long faced allegations of creating a toxic work environment and sexual misconduct. Though Schneider, 59, has apologized for his behavior in the workplace, he’s denied sexual abuse allegations and sued the makers of the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, claiming it wrongly implied that he sexually abused child actors.
Bynes told TMZ in an article published Friday, November 21, that the TikTok video implying Schneider got her pregnant at age 13 was not made by her and is untrue.
The Hairspray actress told the outlet that whoever made the TikTok spliced together Bynes’ preexisting videos to create “lies for click bait.”
The first clip of Bynes at the restaurant is taken from a recent Instagram Story, she said, and was not made for the TikTok in question.
Quiet on Set, released last year by Investigation Discovery, made explosive allegations and revelations about what it was like for the child actors working on TV in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Bynes did not participate in the docuseries. Around the time of its release, TMZ reported that she and both of her parents, Lynn and Rick Bynes, were approached about recounting their experiences for the doc but chose not to participate.
One source told the outlet that Bynes did not want to participate because she did not have a bad experience, or a similar one, to the ones described in the doc.
