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Dan Schneider Defends His Relationship With Amanda Bynes After She Ran Away From Home

Nickelodeon writer and producer Dan Schneider says he "supported" Amanda Bynes' desire to be emancipated from her parents.

“She wanted that for herself,” Schneider said, whose rehabilitative interview with former “iCarly” actor Bobby “BooG!e” Bowman aired Tuesday after the release of Investigation Discovery’s damning four-part docuseries, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.” Schneider is credited for creating some of the Nickelodeon’s most successful shows, like “All That” and “iCarly,”as well as launching the careers of several child actors, including Keenan Thompson, Drake Bell, Ariana Grande, during his time as a showrunner in the ’90s and 2000s. During Tuesday’s interview posted on his YouTube page DanWarp, Schneider opened up about the controversy that surrounded his relationship with Bynes, as in part detailed in the docuseries, beginning with her desire to become emancipated.

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