"All That" Star Lori Beth Denberg Reveals Dan Schneider Showed Her Porn, Touched Her Inappropriately

Former teen star Lorie Beth Denberg opens up about disgraced Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider.

According to the All That star, Dan Schneider called her into his office around her 19th birthday to address Denberg's weight, only for the conversation to shift into something even more insidious. The actress alleges that Schneider began showing her clips of pornography on his phone, with the last video displaying a woman performing oral sex on a donkey.

From 1994 to 1998, Denberg recalled Schneider placing her in countless "uncomfortable situations." She alleges that he would lash out at her on set, played sexually explicit videos for her numerous times, and once initiated phone sex.

"I feel like that is the first time he preyed on me," Denberg told Business Insider. Following the success of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, the producer continues to deny all accusations against him, including Denberg's, stating they are "wildly exaggerated and, in most cases, false."

"As I have previously stated, there were times, particularly in the early years of my career, that I made mistakes and exhibited poor judgment as a leader," Schneider said. "If I did that with respect to Lori Beth, I sincerely apologize to her. But I cannot apologize for things I did not do."

Around the year 2000, Denberg said she tried her best to protect Amanda Bynes. She went to Albie Hecht, the then president of film and TV at Nickelodeon and All That co-creator Brian Robbins, and reported she was worried about how Schneider treated Bynes. The young and rising actress appeared emaciated and exhausted on the set of The Amanda Show, which Schneider created and produced. Denberg states that she and another Nickelodeon employee were barred from the set of the show after they spoke to executives.

She remembered visiting The Amanda Show set and noticed a 13-year-old Bynes looking "gaunt." She said she overheard Schneider say the series had to stop filming recently because Bynes was tired. In addition, a high school friend of Denberg, Farah Alvin, recalled her saying that Amanda was not okay after the visit. What in the world did they do to poor Amanda Bynes? "I felt like I tried to help her — to help Amanda, and couldn't," Denberg said.

"Nobody thinks it is their responsibility" to protect individuals working at Nickelodeon, Denberg said. Adding that higher-ups act as if employees "should thank them for the privilege — and it's just absolutely disgusting."

Denberg joined the All That cast in 1994 when she 17. When she turned 19, however, things turned sexual with her boss. It began with phone calls. Denberg said they would talk about sexual topics, and Schneider initiated phone sex. In 1996, she spent late nights with the producer, sometimes sleeping over. While they were not sexually intimate, Denberg said they'd give each other massages and that Schneider would always play porn on his computer. Alvin corroborated this story to Business Insider.

Denberg recalled the time when Schneider asked her to come with him to visit his auto repairman. The producer had a gun on him, and when a police officer pulled him over due to his car's tags, Schneider pushed the weapon to Denberg. She hid it under her skirt as he spoke with the policeman. Their relationship, the actress claims, turned into a "weird, abusive friendship," with Schneider fondling and putting his mouth on her breast whenever he would "win" a game of Jeopardy!

Denberg did not see these interactions as inappropriate then and only recently began grappling with the power imbalance in her and Schneider's relationship. If she refused Schneider, she felt he would stop working with her or humiliate her on set. "I couldn't have been more green," she said. "I couldn't have been more vulnerable."

Denberg claims Schneider began to lash out more when working on set. If she stood up for herself or pushed back against him, she said that "it became more and more of, I'm going to make your life miserable. I'm going to treat you as badly as I can."

Denberg told Business Insider that speaking up about Schneider makes others feel safe to follow suit. The 48-year-old, who still acts to this day, acknowledges that this may ruin her chances in working with future films – but she's willing to take that risk. "She wants Nickelodeon to take responsibility," the Business Insider interviewer notes. "And she wants people to know what Schneider did."

"There's right and wrong," Denberg said, "and there's true and false."

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