Jennette McCurdy is about to top the bestseller’s list once again with the release of her 2026 novel, Half His Age. The I’m Glad My Mom Died author’s book explores a fictional relationship between a 17-year-old and her married writing teacher, and during Jennette’s promo tour, she’s opened up about her own experience with a man in his 30s when she was just 18.
Here is everything we know so far about Jennette’s 2026 novel, Half His Age.
Jennette recalled the past toxic relationship during her “Call Her Daddy” 2026 appearance.
Jennette has dated Jesse Carere, Andre Drummond, Paul Glaser and Graham Patrick Martin, according to The Sun. She has not disclosed the name of her current boyfriend yet.
Jennette has not disclosed the name of her former boyfriend, with whom she had a sexual relationship when she was 18 and he was in his 30s. Though she discussed her experience during a January 2026 interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, and revealed that she met the unnamed man on the set of iCarly.
“He would show me movies that he thought I would like. Like, Dazed and Confused, which I did not like but I pretended to like. He would play me music that I did not like, but I pretended to like,” Jennette explained. At the time, the 30-something-year-old man was in a relationship with and living with another woman. Jennette, for her part, was raised Mormon and hadn’t engaged in a sexual relationship before meeting him.
