The Girl Behind The Voice Of 'Dora The Explorer' Is Being Sued For Calling A Classmate A Pussy And Offering Her An E-Cig

NYPost-  A private-school classmate says the voice actress behind the bilingual Nickelodeon character is anything but a wide-eyed innocent — painting her, in a new court filing, as a manipulative gutter-mouth who called her a “p—y” for refusing to try an e-cigarette in school.

The statement was filed in a pending lawsuit brought by the classmate’s parents against the $40,000-a-year Avenues: The World School for expelling their daughter, while giving the child actor just a three-day suspension.

The 14-year-old, identified as M.S. in court papers, says Dora actress Fatima Ptacek, 15, lured her into the bathroom of their Chelsea private school last year and pressured her into smoking out of a vape pen.

“I told her I didn’t want to, but she called me a ‘p—y’ and my competitive side kicked in,” M.S. explains in the recently-filed statement.

Faster than she could utter Dora’s catchphrase, “Swiper, no swiping!” M.S. adds, Ptacek “said some very unkind, hurtful things that in the moment made me feel vulnerable.”




​This is a very sad story and the victim deserves our sympathies. The only problem I see is that the wrong person is being painted as the victim. Who gives a shit that some random 14 year old got called a 'pussy' and was peer pressured into smoking an E-Cig? Since when is that worthy of  lawsuit? This girl owes Dora (Fatima) a thank you, because she just gave her a hell of an introduction to high school. As far as I am concerned, that's like the nicest interaction that a child star has ever had with someone from the real world.

Honestly, I'm more worried that we aren't giving voice actors the preferential treatment that we give physical actors. What the fuck is the voice of 'Dora The Explorer' doing in our private schools? She should be getting her education in some studio-side trailer after spending the entirety of her recording session pretending to talk to a fucking fox. You think it's tough to transition back to being a teenager after acting as if you are part of an alternative reality? Why don't you try sitting in a room alone speaking to no one in a manner that's so oversimplified that you might as well be trying to simultaneously teach American preschoolers Spanish and Spanish preschoolers English? She basically spends her work hours in solitary confinement talking to herself as if she would talk to a person that is both bilingual and mentally incompetent. We're going to persecute her for smoking in the least dangerous way possible and pleading for a little bit of company while she does so? If you were required to sound happy and excitable at all times, you'd probably have a full blown coke addiction by 7th grade. I'm impressed that this broad hasn't already gone full Lohan, so how am I supposed to act appalled that she started making it rain obscenities after being contractually obligated to keep it 'PG' in front of a microphone all day?