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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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320. ISBN. 978-1-982185-82-4. I'm Glad My Mom Died is a 2022 memoir by American writer, director and former actress Jennette McCurdy based on her one-woman show of the same name. The book is about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013. This is McCurdy's first book and was published ...
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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. I'm Glad My Mom Died details how ...
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Aug 11, 2022 · Skyler Caruso. Published on August 11, 2022 05:33PM EDT. Jennette McCurdy 's not holding back. In her recently released memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died, the former Nickelodeon actress opens up about ...
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 beds. She constantly fought with and disparaged McCurdy’s father, sometimes becoming violent. McCurdy recounts a time in the memoir when her mother ...
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Aug 3, 2022 · 340. Jennette McCurdy’s relationship with her mother is at the center of her memoir, “I’m Glad My Mom Died.”. Ahmed Gaber for The New York Times. By Dave Itzkoff. Aug. 3, 2022. When ...
