In a brand new interview with PEOPLE, Cosgrove mirrored on the time she and McCurdy shared on the set of the Nickelodeon present.

“We had one another,” the actress mentioned, additionally pointing to her male co-star, Nathan Kress. “I will at all times love them, and so they’ll at all times be household to me, as a result of we grew up collectively for thus a few years.”

Cosgrove recalled navigating the celebrity that grew to become “a lot directly” alongside her two co-stars. She even admitted to being “bummed” about leaving public college, however rapidly shifted her perspective after realizing the three of them can be homeschooled collectively.

“So I do really feel actually fortunate that I had them,” she mentioned.

After “iCarly” concluded, Cosgrove defined how she took a while to discover totally different elements of herself. Extra particularly, Cosgrove went again to high school to check psychology on the College of Southern California.

“I used to be looking for one thing else that I used to be actually taken with or enthusiastic about,” Cosgrove mentioned. “And I really feel like I by no means actually discovered that. However I am nonetheless actually glad I did it, as a result of I feel I’d’ve at all times questioned if there was one thing else.”

Cosgrove then spoke about McCurdy, who famously left performing behind years earlier than publishing her bestselling memoir, “I am Glad My Mother Died,” saying she was glad her former co-star has discovered a brand new ardour in writing.

“And I really feel like that is superb, as a result of her path led her to the factor that she loves. So I am actually glad for her,” Cosgrove mentioned.

And whereas the pair spent years collectively on the hit Nickelodeon present, Cosgrove admitted they don’t seem to be as shut at this time, sharing that she would not “actually see her as a lot now.”

Cosgrove added, nonetheless, “I at all times know she’s on the market, and that if I actually wanted her I might name her, and I hope she is aware of the identical. … I am at all times going to be cheering for her.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Cosgrove mirrored on the distinctive pressures of being a toddler star and the function mother and father can play within the lives of younger performers.

“It is like an grownup job in an grownup world, and a child’s in it. That makes it actually unusual,” she mentioned. “So many youngsters find yourself performing since their mother and father wished them to do it, and I feel that is the place it will get actually messy and complex as a result of then it is far more in regards to the father or mother than it’s the baby.”

Cosgrove’s message is just like McCurdy’s, who spoke brazenly in regards to the abuse she suffered by the hands of her mom throughout her time as an actress.

“My earliest reminiscences of childhood have been of heaviness and chaos,” McCurdy defined in an interview with PEOPLE. “My mother’s feelings have been so erratic that it was like strolling a tightrope on daily basis. The temper fluctuations have been day by day.”

“My mother had at all times dreamt of being a well-known actor, and she or he grew to become obsessive about making me a star,” she added. “I felt like my job was to maintain the peace. And I wished to make my mother glad.”

The success of McCurdy’s memoir led to the event of a newly scripted sequence, starring Jennifer Aniston, on Apple TV+. The streaming big introduced that the e book will probably be tailored right into a 10-episode dramedy, with McCurdy serving as showrunner and author.

McCurdy’s e book was first launched on August 9, 2022, and spent greater than 75 weeks on the New York Occasions Greatest Vendor Record.