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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.
Nov 8, 2022 · In her memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” she details her complicated relationship with her abusive mother up until her death from cancer in 2013. “She turned to me when I was 6 and said that she wanted me to be an actress because her parents would never let her be one,” McCurdy says.
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. I'm Glad My Mom Died details how ...
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Aug 17, 2022 · Early on in I’m Glad My Mom Died, McCurdy’s agent tells her that she didn’t score a callback to Because of Winn Dixie because “they’re looking for an ethereal beauty, and Jennette reads more...
Aug 18, 2022 · I’m Glad My Mom Died. As a child, Jennette McCurdy dreamed of being a writer, drafting her first screenplay as a little girl in Garden Grove, California. Instead, her domineering mother, Debra ...
Aug 15, 2022 · August 15, 2022 2:33pm. Jennette McCurdy Courtesy of Brian Kimskey. Jennette McCurdy is moving forward after looking back on her painful past. McCurdy rose to fame as a child star in the mid-2000s ...
Aug 11, 2022 · “Child stardom is a trap,” McCurdy declares in her debut book, I’m Glad My Mom Died. The coming-of-age memoir recounts her nonconsensual journey of becoming a child actor, and the eating ...
