Nickelodeon offered Jennette McCurdy $300,000 to stay quiet about a man she calls the Creator. She says he rubbed her shoulders while she was too scared to say stop. Her mother, she says, gave her "exams" of her private parts in the shower until she was 17. She says he also encouraged her to drink when she was underage. About her mother, she told ABC: "I absolutely felt violated." Acting was her mother's dream, not hers. She went to her first audition at 6, and by 11 she was paying the family's bills. Her mother, she says, "conditioned my anorexia." Her mother died of cancer in 2013, and the anorexia turned into bulimia. When Sam & Cat was canceled, Nickelodeon called the $300,000 a "thank you gift." The condition was that she never talk publicly about her time there. She wrote that it felt like hush money. Nickelodeon told ABC it had no comment. She said no, quit acting, and wrote a book called I'm Glad My Mom Died. It went to No. 1 on the New York Times list. $300,000 to stay quiet. A No. 1 bestseller for talking. "I think I've chosen a path of integrity," she said. "And it hasn't always been easy." Would you have turned down $300,000 to tell the truth?