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Aug 17, 2022 · Jennette McCurdy spoke about her three brothers, Dustin, Scott, and Marcus, and their reaction to her book, 'I'm Glad My Mom Died.' Read their response here.
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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.
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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 ...
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Aug 17, 2022 · With I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy lays bare the horrors of child acting. The former Nickelodeon star burns her bridges in her new memoir.
Sep 6, 2022 · Along with the published memoir, McCurdy also recorded an audiobook version of “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” a process that took four days and a lot of prep to help her get through it.
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Nov 8, 2022 · I am glad that she died.” McCurdy’s mother was a hoarder, filling their house with objects the family couldn’t afford and forcing McCurdy and her brothers to sleep on floor mats instead of...
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.
