AUDIO Nickelodeon’s Jennette McCurdy ridicules romance with NBA player Andre Drummond
Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy seemed to take a page from Brandi Glanville’s book while publicly discussing her short relationship with NBA player Andre Drummond during a Nerdist podcast.
Jennette told Pete Holmes of her first kiss with Andre, “We’d already made plans to see each other the next day… I just sort of went for it. But, it wasn’t great. No sparks and the mouths just sort of… The shapes just weren’t right.”
The Sam & Cat star also detailed aspects of the romance that gave her pause — particularly when the Detroit Pistons player FaceTimed her during a massage, gave her some of his NBA gear and initiated communication via Twitter.
“I followed him and I sent him a little message. It was a like public message. And, so since I was following him and he was following me, he sent me a direct message with his phone number… It was ‘Hey, we should get to know each other’ then his phone number. It was a bit forward.”
TMZ shared the pertinent segments…
Here’s the full podcast from The Nerdist. Relationship talk starts around the 20-minute mark…
Jennette’s catching a lot of heat for her comments, which did come off as abrasive at points. But, to be fair, she’s been much more eloquent when talking about the relationship in the past. In an editorial for The Wall Street Journal in September, Jennette said she thought Andre was “sweet, gutsy and flattering.”
“Text conversations started, followed by phone conversations, followed by daily hour-long FaceTime chats,” she said. “He sent me flowers and gifts. I was giddy in the way I hate girls to be.”
Andre hasn’t responded to Jennette’s comments. But, during a February interview with ESPN, he said “everything is cool” between them.
“But I didn’t actually think anything would come of it, to be honest,” he said of flirting with Jennette via Twitter.
UPDATE – Soon after Jennette’s podcast interview, three sexy lingerie selfies of her leaked online! Click here to see the pics and read Andre’s response to rumors that he was responsible.
