Jennie Garth is opening up about working with disgraced producer Dan Schneider on the WB seriesWhat I Like About You.

While sitting down for theArmchair Expertpodcast on Monday, the actress, who starred in the series alongsideAmanda Bynes for four seasons starting in 2002, recalled getting bad vibes from Schneider and, because of that, preferred to communicate with series co-creator Will Calhoun.

To the point where I said to Will, like, I would rather just communicate solely with you. I trust you. I think that you have my best interests in mind, and I dont feel that way with your partner. So Id rather just be with you. And he was like, No problem, she said. When first approached to star in the series, Garth said of Schneider, He was kind of the Amanda side of it; she had worked with him a lot onThe Amanda Showand all the things. So, he had hooked his wagon onto her.

When Garth was asked whether she witnessed Bynes being destroyed by Schneider, Garth said not specifically him but added, There were a lot of problems in the ecosystem of her. Garth said that when they filmed the pilot she was 30 and Bynes was 16. I didnt know how to be around a teenage girl. She taught me so much, Garth explained after being asked if she helped Bynes navigate early stardom given her experience on 90210.

The comments mark Garths first time speaking about Schneider at length. When asked in 2024 about her working relationship with Schneider, she bluntly stated toTHR, I dont want to talk about Dan Schneider ever again in my life.

In 2024, Investigation Discovery released the four-part docuseriesQuiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,which made claims about toxic workplaces for child actors and crews onthe Nickelodeonseries Schneider created and ran including The Amanda Show, Drake Josh,Zoey101, iCarly, VictoriousandSam Cat. Among theallegations were that he tolerated toxic workplace conditions, allegedly tormented and humiliated the cast and crew on his TV sets, was inappropriate to young females who worked for him and wrote inappropriate scripts for child actors to perform.

Garth noted to THR at the time that she had not heard from her co-star Bynes since the airing of the documentary but did say, I just love her, and I would love to see her at any point.

In a video exclusively obtained byThe Hollywood Reporter, Schneider said of the docuseries, When I watched the show, I could see the hurt in some peoples eyes, and it made me feel awful and regretful and sorry. I wish I could go back, especially to those earlier years of my career, and bring the growth and the experience that I have now and just do a better job and never, ever feel like it was OK to be an asshole to anyone, ever.

There are definitely things that I would do differently, he said. The main thing that I would change is how I treat people and everyone. I definitely at times didnt give people the best of me. I didnt show enough patience. I could be cocky and definitely over-ambitious, and sometimes just straight up rude and obnoxious, and Im sorry that I ever was.