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Alexa Nikolas
Since her role as Nicole Bristow in Zoey 101, Nikolas has been outspoken about her “traumatizing” Nickelodeon experience.
“I did not feel protected at Nickelodeon as a child personally,” she said in an August 2022 Instagram video from a protest outside the network. “And so, I’m demanding that Nickelodeon starts protecting children and not predators.”
Elsewhere in the video, Nikolas called Schneider, who created Zoey 101, a “creator of childhood trauma” whom she “did not feel safe around” as a kid.
“Every time he came on set, my body got extremely tense,” she said.
Nikolas told more of her story in the 2024 docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which focused heavily on Schneider’s tenure at Nickelodeon.
“I wasn’t happy. I actually couldn’t show up to set anymore without crying,” she said. “A lot of my self-worth was deeply damaged from that set experience. Me as a person was altered for life.”
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