Jenna Ortega Was Safe From Set Misconduct as a Child Star Because Mom ‘Watched Over Me Like a Hawk,’ Says ‘Child Acting Is Strange’ and ‘There’s Times I Regret It’

Jenna Ortega got her start in Hollywood as a child actor at age 9 and quickly gained a following with roles on hit series like Disney Channel’s “Stuck in the Middle.” She recently told The New York Times that she never endured misconduct as a kid on sets because her mother “watched over me like a hawk.” Ortega did not watch this year’s buzzy documentary series “Quiet on Set,” which included several stories of misconduct and harassment behind the scenes of Nickelodeon shows, but her mother did and “she called me about it.”

“I think for her, it was more pain, because she had seen the way that other

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