Alexa Nikolas Reacts to DAN SCHNEIDER Apology (FULL INTERVIEW) 

Dan should be interviewed by an actual reporter who is willing to GRILL and EXPOSE this gross predator. Jail.

His entire apology was basically “I’m sorry you felt that way”

I fully suspect that Amanda Bynes has the most to say that could be said about Dan Schneider. He is able to make these statements because he is fully confident that Amanda won't talk.

I feel like Dan was bullied growing up and didn’t feel like girls liked him. So when he got a little bit of power he exploited and controlled every girl and woman that came into his life. He is sick

The fact that Dan is letting one of his former employees interview him rather than a legitimate journalist is very telling. He wants to put on a show of holding himself accountable without letting go of any control he has over the narrative.

Honestly, im willing to bet Dan contacted boogie, with a script .

I love how Dan's excuse for underpaying the two female writers is basically, "Well I underpaid my other writers too!" Freaking amazing...

“Sorry people didn’t like working with me but no one stopped meeeee” such a good apology. Good one dan. 🙄🙄

5:01 “The fact that I participated in it” You didn’t participate in it, you PERPETUATED it

My thing is, if it takes over 20 years to “apologize” he is not sorry. This is beyond disgusting.

I worked in Hollywood. We all heard the rumors. Unfortunately they are all true. Dan is a horrible person who should be held accountable.

Dan found one of the few Nickelodeon actors who WEREN’T children while on the show to interview his ass 😂😂😂

used a black dude to stave off the racism allegations but to also softball him questions on HIS platform

Bro had DECADES to apologize, he’s sorry he got caught.

Not to mention he was essentially grooming a generation of people watching these shows, so more children and adults normalize these things they watched kids doing. It’s sick

I noticed that comments are disabled on his video, so apparently he does not want to hear any criticism of his remarks. I watched it, and I noticed how earnestly sincere he comes across throughout. He is also incredibly polished; he doesn't seem to be reaching for any words, or taking a few moments to process how he should respond to a question. It comes across as him knowing exactly what he he is going to say before he's even asked the question. For all we know, he wrote the questions himself. In other words, it reeks of being scripted. And he's extremely selective of what issues he's willing to address. He repeatedly makes his pitch that, in essence, he was simply overworked and short-tempered, and he said and did some impertinent things, and that he owes some people some apologies (he hasn't even apologized to anyone in the years since his sacking?!?). But on the more serious allegations, the questions aren't even raised, so he isn't put in the uncomfortable position of having to provide any answers. And as the executive producer, I find it very hard to believe he played no role whatsoever in what his staff people were paid. He did argue that it's supposedly perfectly normal in television for two writers to split one salary, and claimed that it happened multiple times in his writers' rooms. However, I've read recently that apparently that's not true, it is in fact very illegal. I should hope the SWG pursues this matter with both Schneider and Nickelodeon, and ensures that writers are properly and lawfully paid for their work.

The fake cry then immediately going back to talking normal made me so fucking uncomfortable. Everything about him is disgusting. Edit: adding the timestamp so it's easier to find, but I'd rather yall watch the whole video. 40:25

Him talking about being new and inexperienced to filmmaking as an excuse for sexual harassment and child predatory behaviour is WILD.

The age old phrase. He's not sorry about what he did, he's just sorry he got caught

Alexa, you are an icon. Thank you for calling predators out so firmly. If more people get passion like this, the world will be a better place.

Dan Schneider is a sociopath. How he casually switches from tears to just normal casually talking is actually terrifying

I got so mad at the end when he said “there should be a therapist there to make sure the kid really wants to be on tv and understands what’s going to happen”. Are you kidding me? No child would expect to be subjected to sexual harassment on a TV show. It wasn’t never about the kids not actually wanting to be on TV, it’s about YOU manipulating children on YOUR tv show. He tried to make it sound like they should’ve expected what happened. Literally victim blaming.

Licensed therapist should be there additionally overseeing the directors and production team to ensure they’re not doing psychological damage with predatory sexual behavior

“Are you okay? You wanna take a minute?” 💀 I just found that line funny idk why

The passive language he uses, "I'm sorry this happened" rather than "I'm sorry I did this," is so disgusting.

Why would you reach out for Dan. When victims are kids that are now adults.

he’s so worried about people liking his shows, but he’s also the reason most kids were not allowed to watch his shows growing up. PAC.

Thank you so much for speaking out. I heard your story years ago and it broke my heart. My childhood was spent watching a lot of Nick. We looked up to you as kids. And we look up to you now for exposing all of this. ❤

His words are empty. He could've apologized years ago. He used kids for his fetishes. Kids who felt hurt by that will never get that back. No apology will undo that. And he disabled the comments. Spineless

I HATE how he tried to shift blame onto the parents for not bringing up concerns, when HE was the one that created that environment and made parents feel like they couldn’t bring up said concerns to him without facing repercussions.

“We’re not some people and we’re not gonna be remembered as that” YES

I like how he was able to stop crying instantly

bro a grown man massaging kids was just looked over??? It was a friend interviewing him, totally calculated and rehearsed. F Dan and Boogie

"wouldn't happen today" dude if he hadn't been exposed it would STILL BE HAPPENING TODAY

Dan basically says he wants to apologize... but never actually does. If he really meant it, he'd reach out to each and every person in the doc, and even those that weren't. He hasn't. He's already built his empire and he comes off as if he currently has no shame about anything he did. Cut the jokes out? The damage has already been done. My heart absolutely breaks for Drake Bell and what he went through. I couldn't watch his interview without crying my eyes out. The fact that his father had his suspicions and it happened anyway, especially when he warned Drake's mother and she simply didn't listen... omg 😢💔 She failed her son, point blank. A year and 4 months is *NOT LONG ENOUGH* for what Brian Peck did to him!!! I also cried when they found all the child porn and a child's undergarment in Jason Handy's house and what he wrote in his journal. Absolutely disgusting and horrifying. And Boogie.... you say you can't speak on anyone's journey, but then you go and speak about Amanda? 🧐 If you can't speak on another's journey.... why are you conducting this interview? Why not go to the victims and ask them if they'd care to speak further about their journey? You literally praise Dan for the work he's done, including the success of the black actors. What about those black actors that were treated poorly and those that had to go to therapy? Screw them, right? Disgusting. You gave him the opportunity to paint himself in a better light. Dan and his fake tears played you like a fiddle and you don't even see it smh. The *ONLY THING* I can agree with is suggesting a therapist on set. Some kids might not know how to tell their parents they don't feel comfortable, safe, or they're not interested in the industry. A therapist might be able to pick up on subtle body language clues and can tell when something is wrong. Kids need a lot more protection than that though... asking parents to leave the room while the adults speak to them is highly unacceptable. No minors should be left alone in a room full of adults. This whole thing makes me sick... especially when Brian got a job at Disney after all of this. What in the actual fk?? I'm officially *DONE* with Disney! Hearing some of my favorite childhood celebrities defended a child predator is absolutely mind boggling to me. Seeing adults actually victim blame a *CHILD* and claiming the adult was the victim is in a whole different world of its own. I've caught small glimpses of shows on Nickelodeon here and there and I just never understood what people saw in them. They simply weren't funny, imo. I'm deeply sorry to each and every one of you that suffered at the hands of Dan Schneider, Brian Peck, Jason Handy, Cody Longo, Marty Weiss, and Ezell Channel. Watching this doc and this interview was hard, I can't even imagine having to actually live through it. You all have my deepest sympathy and I wish you all nothing but healing and happiness.

Imagine getting SA’d by your father then going to work with someone who allegedly forced you to get an abortion to cover his crimes, then made a joke about it on air on the show Amanda deserved better and I hope these revelations help her sleep better at night. You are a hero Amanda, a strong woman and surely will become a role model in what should be in children’s entertainment.

If Boogie had been the one to reach out to Dan, this wouldn't have been posted on Dan's youtube channel.

Note how also through all his “apologies” he never once genuinely apologized to the female writers or for his misogyny. Women still aren’t worth that to him.

Thank you so much for the work you do and this channel Alexa ❤

Love the Sickelodeon merch! Where did you get the balloon? You should sell those.

The way Boogie talks is extremely robotic and disturbing. It’s like listening to a hostage.

the “jokes” were “funny to kids” because he added a laugh track and it was told to us that it was supposed to be funny

Lol I maybe 3 minutes of that interview and said nope, saw yours underneath and knew I had to watch

Thankyou for all of this !! And every single thing you addressed was so valid and what was needed to be said !!

It's called minimising. it makes the complainants look like they've overreacted to something that was trivial. It's a tactic abusers use.

Boogie had to been paid to do this. I like to say Dan should have gotten a journalist to interview him but I’m guessing he wanted to control the situation.

15:45 “let’s cut those jokes out of the show, just like I would’ve done 20-25yrs ago” Daniela Monet who played Trina Vega on Victorious was so uncomfortable with a scene she’d done and asked them to cut it and he said no😐

been waiting to watch this :)

The entire interview feels rehearsed, avoids actual confrontation and sweeps accucations under the rug without explaining what you did exactly.

He "reached out to Dan to see IF he wanted to talk about it" yet it's on Dan's channel. This is definitely to save face and I'm sure this guy was paid off. The way Dan said he couldn't "believe" Brian peck went to work for Disney after was funny because he knew exactly how. If you have connections, you can go anywhere and he knows that very well. Also, comments were off for a reason.

Now that I've watched Quiet on Set (FINALLY!) I will be binging all your videos because I want to hear ALL your thoughts on everything. Sending lots of love 🫶🏼

You GUYS are going to blow up…. Your channel has everything

The fact that he’s boiling the whole thing down to “I wasn’t very nice 😢” is SO infuriating.

They are READING A SCRIPT. It's so clear. I'm disgusted

I was in an abusive, neglected situation when I was a child. I resonate with you so much.❤

The entire episode of Zoey 101 where the "c*m shot" happens, is literally entirely based off that joke and that joke alone. If the candy wasnt there, the backpacks wouldnt have gotten soiled, and Zoey wouldnt have had to do anything about it. Removing the jokes does not remove the trauma that these kids went through

It's not wrong to interview Dan, what's wrong is softballing questions and enabling his self victimization.

The reason why Dan schneider started to apologize because he got caught and everybody knows it.

This interview was literally just so he can try to manipulate people and get his “heart felt apology “ out in the open. This interview just screams “im a creep pedophile and i got away with what i was doing until now” hes not sorry for what he did. He’s sorry he got caught up. Nobody was thinking about the future and the internet back then. This has been crazy to hear seeing as i grew up watching the earlier years of Nickelodeon.

Thank you sooo much for speaking out in real time during his defunct interview.. I honestly loved your character back then for being a bad ass (I feel like it wasn't really a joke- you were fed up perhaps? Heh) and you are still keeping it up! ❣️Speak that truth and I understand being manipulated and was spared that life in the beginning. I started as a model at 5.. I lasted like 2 years, but personally I know that "Power dynamic" that people have over the Ignorant of that type of field.. It also happens in almost every field I worked. But was too scared to speak up.. I appreciate your podcast. Thank you for speaking out! I can only imagine the repercussions of speaking out against someone in "power" nowadays... You have my support! 👏👏🙏🙌❤

Man started crying and there wasn't a single tear

He’s so good at minimizing everything it’s scary

I was on a tv show set as a kid in 2004 and we had a therapist that was very insistent in talking to every kid very often. I even ran from them once because I didn’t understand what they were. 😂

YES! I wish I knew about this sooner.

he really thought to himself "shit I haven't cried over anything yet, this seems like an appropriate moment"

Chris Hanson would have been the best choice for an interviewer.

"I'd change all this about me" translates to "id do better about keeping people quiet"

When he tried to cry…wow. “Do you need a minute?”

That interview seems scripted

the fact that he said i owe these people "a pretty big apology" and wanted to call and reach out but didnt screams VOLUMES for who this man is and continues to be.

My girl read the shit out of this in the most insightful way possible. I appreciate this video ❤

off the bat, choosing boogie (a formerly beloved and recognizable character from a child’s show) for his interview was strategically manipulative. I think there’s also something very manipulative in the way he apologizes to everyone around the set he may have made uncomfortable and makes a point to emphasize there were many other adults around watching. it’s feels like he’s trying to spread the blame and also point the finger off himself. the blame falls on many people

I just want to give a shoutout to you and Jeanette for busting this story wide open. You guys gave a lot of other people the opportunity to tell their stories. You know they had an article saying you left Zoey 101 because you and Jamie didn't get along back when it happened? Even IF you didn't, that's NOT WHY you left. They are masters of shifting the blame.

Not a glimpse of remorse in his eyes. Not even a slight glimmer. He is not sorry for his actions! He is sorry because he has been exposed for what he really is!

I love people able to share the opinions.

After he was released you can see brian peck sitting next to one kid that wrote a letter to him when amanda accepted an award at kids choice awards

Alexa you are a force of nature. Hearing you speak makes me want to grab a flag and go protest in the streets. You have an unmatched drive for justice and tolerate ZERO bullshit. I just admire you so much.

"Apologizing" my ASS after decades and two different internal investigations, an official firing, and a fucking documentary exposing his bs. That's not "sorry" that's "sorry I got caught"

Love this video! Thank you for making it. Therapist in grad school here, I have a lot to learn and also wanted to give some insight on legality of what Therapists can and can't say to others about sessions. Unless the child is currently causing themselves or others harm we are very limited on telling someone about abuse. I agree that mental health professionals should be on the set as a neutral resource with as little bias as possible to allow for expression of feelings. AND a 3rd party advocate hired to make executives aware of the situation. That way, in the case of Dan, if people were coming in on set to check-in on the behavior, he would have no idea.

Just came out that he's suing Quiet On Set for defamation. Which only shows that he's NOT sorry and will take no real accountability unless the cameras are pointed at him.

He’s embarrassed that so many survivors are speaking out, that he can no longer sweep things under the rug / pay things away / intimidate people - he’s embarrassed he has to speak about this, and embarrassed that it’s on camera! What a narcissistic response from somebody who harmed people - including children! - for decades.

It’s embarrassing for him because he’s a narcissist who got CAUGHT. He’s embarrassed he got CAUGHT. He’s embarrassed people are JUDGING him. He’s embarrassed people are thinking LESS of him. He’s not embarrassed because his actions are despicable and horrendous acts of abuse against women and CHILDREN. He’s embarrassed because of his EGO. He’s embarrassed for himself, and not his victims.

"If I would have known back then, I would have changed it." You always knew what you were doing, Dan. You literally (as told in the docu-series) told ALL of the parents from the child actors and actresses to LEAVE the room to barely and briefly adress the former employee who r*ped and s*domized a CURRENT child actor you were working with in order to not get sued/be held responsible for child endangerment by them. You knowingly SEPARATED children from their legal guardians, the ONLY ones who could (and you knew potentially WOULD, have they known) protect and remove them from that enviroment, JUST TO CONTINUE THE SHOW. A child can't emotionally take that information like an adult could. A child can't proceed to take action in that situation. THE PARENTS AND GUARDIANS needed to be primarily informed of that, and you deliberately withheld that from them. They only knew because of rumours and then the news. And guess what? Not only did it happen that time, but it did again. AND THEN AGAIN. 3 child predat*rs on the set, guess what (who) the common denominator is here! But yeah, pressuring a female coworker to scream "I'M A SL*T!" in a room full of people by threatening to put her job on the line if not totally comes out of naiveness of being a boss for the first time! You didn't know! Oopsie!

👏 you are calling it as you see it! More people need to watch this to watch out to psychopaths.

him having the audacity to fake cry about what happened to drake.. like let’s not forget Amanda Bynes’s tweets about how she was FORCED TO GET AN ABORTION AT 13 CUZ HE SA’D HER?!

So let me get this straight a grown ass man who’s been abusing kids for years and years under a television program that claims to think about the children is getting special treatment when he’s not the one that is the victim in the first place as he spent more time with these kids than the parents that were supposed to be there to protect them. Alexa I’m very sorry for what you and the other child stars had to endure and put up with.

Just noticed the Sickeloadeon sign 😮

Alexa, You EATS DOWN. i love your boldness, your hungry, your energy and you’re devotion to making things right! you stand up for for us in ALL WAYS. as an SA survivor, what dan did and is still doing is SICK.

the fbi needs to investigate every single one of dan’s computers

We finally know who is the real dirty dan.

I'm looking forward to seeing him go down for all the things talked about and all the things not talked about

He’s the perfect example of only apologizing because he was caught.

I do not support Dan Schneider he's disgusting I support Alexa Nikolas I'm giving her a shoutout to the victims. Dan Schneider is gross he's needs to be lock up

The rage in you is so satisfying because your sense of justice is on the mark

It's interesting how one of the first singles that Ariana put out after Victorious ended (Feb 2, 2013) was Break Free (lyrics video Jul 2, 2014), and then on Feb 6, 2015, she released One Last Time (lyrics video), and featured Matt Bennett, who played Robbie, in the actual music video which was released 10 days later (Feb 16, 2015)......... I might be reading too much into it tho, but like.... idk://

they way she talks is so satisfying to listen too, i love how she speaks up for herself and the many victims who are too afraid too. we can’t change the world, but we can help one person at a time

What about the foot stuff? What about his treatment to Alexa? What about taking accountability for creating an environment where he COULDN’T be told no?! That was one of the biggest points of the doc! That Dan created a toxic environment to where he makes or breaks careers based on if those kids cooperate or not.

I’m not 6 min in and the fact that he brings up how embarrassed he is more than anything else tells me everything I need to know.

The whole thing felt like he paid a guy to give him softball questions when he could’ve just been on the documentary if he “had nothing to hide”

tried to post this link as a comment on dan's lastest instagram post that linked the original interview. got hit with "comments on this post have been limited" lmao