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Sep 7, 2022 · JENNETTE McCurdy frequently cites her late mother Debra McCurdy as the reason why she got into acting. With Jennette releasing her book, I'm Glad My Mom Died, fans are curious to know more about her mom Debra and what her cause of death was.
Sep 21, 2013 · The 21-year-old iCarly star's mom, Debra McCurdy, died Friday after a long battle with cancer, E! News has confirmed. "Jennette has suffered an unimaginable loss," her rep tells E! News.
Nov 8, 2022 · McCurdy felt lost when her mother died until she eventually found therapy, which helped her immensely in recovering from bulimia. But she wasn’t ready to dive into her relationship with her mother just yet. When a therapist suggested her mother may have been abusive for the first time, McCurdy shut down.
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- Jennette's mother, Debra, was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer when Jennette was only 2 years old. Although Jennette said she was too young to remember most of the details about her mother's illness, her mother would bring it up at any chance she got.
- By the time Jennette was 6, her mother decided she was going to become an actor, despite the fact that Jennette had never expressed any desire to try acting.
- Jennette, who grew up Mormon, said she loved going to church every Sunday because it was a "beautiful, peaceful, three-hour weekly reprieve from the place I hate most: home."
- After earning background roles in commercials and shows like The X-Files — work that Jennette said she didn't particularly enjoy — she booked a role in Golden Dreams, a film set during the Great Depression that played at Disney's California Adventure.
Aug 17, 2022 · A refresher: Jennette's mother died in 2013 from cancer—an experience that the actor has openly expressed having mixed feelings on both IRL and in the memoir.
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Aug 17, 2022 · McCurdy’s mother Debra died of breast cancer in 2013, but it would be years longer before McCurdy was able to understand her mother as abusive, and to grasp that she herself had never really...
Aug 18, 2022 · McCurdy’s mom, Debra, who died of breast cancer in 2013 when McCurdy was 21, had controlled and abused McCurdy throughout her life, she writes, pulling the puppet strings on McCurdy’s...
