The embattled ex-Nickelodeon producer calls Denberg’s allegations “wildly exaggerated and, in most cases, false.”
“I feel like that is the first time he preyed on me,” she said.
If I did that with respect to Lori Beth, I sincerely apologize to her.
Lori Beth Denberg and Dan Schneider.Bryan Bedder/Getty; Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
But I cannot apologize for things I did not do."
When Denberg won, she alleged, Schneider fondled her breasts and put his mouth on them.
She added, “I couldn’t have been more vulnerable.”
Schneider was also accused of showing pornography toAmanda Showwriter Jenny Kilgen in an episode ofQuiet on Set.
Denberg told Business Insider that Schneider would lash out at her on and off set as well.
“It was one of those turns that was just really upsetting and scary,” she said.
“Everyone else seemed to completely blow it off.”
EW has reached out to representatives for Hecht and Nickelodeon for comment.
“There’s right and wrong,” she said, “and there’s true and false.”
