Amanda Bynes denied wild rumors that disgraced Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider got her pregnant when she was 13 years old.
The “Amanda Show” alum told TMZ that a viral video of her claiming Schneider impregnated her was digitally altered.
Bynes, now 39, also told the outlet that the person who created the edited clip tried to fabricate “lies for clickbait.”
A now-deleted video posted by a fan account showed a clip of the former Nickelodeon star sitting alone in a restaurant. At the bottom of the clip was text that read, “This is the guy I got pregnant with when I was 13! 😭.”
The video then cuts to a scene from “The Amanda Show,” in which a bikini-clad teenager, Bynes, is in a hot tub with a fully clothed Schneider, now 59.
Above the video it said: “Watch this. I’m sorry I couldn’t make your childhood happy again.”
Bynes told TMZ that she posted the first part of the fan-edited video, but it pointed the camera at her boyfriend and didn’t include any of the Jacuzzi scene.
Schneider did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
In last year’s “Quiet on the Set” doc, several former Nickelodeon stars alleged that Schneider fostered a toxic work environment, torturing and humiliating cast and crew members on television sets.
The creator of “iCarly” denied the allegations, but said he owed people a “strong apology” for his past “embarrassing” actions.
In May 2024, Schneider filed a lawsuit against the documentary’s producers and creators for alluding to sexual abuse of child actors at Nickelodeon.
The former “Zoey 101” producer accused Warner Bros. Discovery, Maxine Productions, Sony Pictures Television and others of making the trailer for the five-part documentary series into a “hit piece” against him, filled with “false statements and innuendos,” according to a complaint obtained by Page Six at the time.
Nickelodeon severed ties with Schneider in 2018 following reports that Schneider was under a “cloud of suspicion over his treatment of the show’s young stars.” The producers received a payout of $7 million and walked away.
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