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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 · $20 at Amazon. 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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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.
- She Was Forced Into Acting by Her Mother
- She Endured Childhood Trauma Due to Her Mother's Control
- She Developed An Eating Disorder at A Young Age
- She Wanted to Quit Acting Before Finding Fame
- She Was Allegedly 'exploited' as A Teen Actor
- She Has Maintained A Healthy Friendship with Miranda Cosgrove
- She Was 'Pissed' at Ariana Grande While Filming Sam & Cat
- She Was Bribed to Keep Quiet About Her Experience at Nickelodeon
- She Relapsed After Her Mom's Death But Is on A Journey to Recovery
Jennette said she was forced into the life Debra wished she could've had; Jennette recalls her mom asking, "You want to be Mommy's little actress?" and says she felt she had no choice. Debra secured auditions for her kids with Barbara Cameron, mother and manager of Growing Pains' Kirk Cameron and Full House's Candace Cameron Bure. Unlike Jennette's...
Forcing her into acting was just one of the many controlling situations the actress says her mother put her through. The extremity of Debra's control went as far as "wiping my butt" at eight years old, Jennette recalls in the memoir, adding that her mom said she "needs to do it until I'm at least 10." In addition, Jennette says Debra regularly perf...
Jennette points to her mom as the root of her eating disorder and believes Debra faced one herself. And as Jennette recalls, for Debra, "The only thing worse than a cancer diagnosis is a growing-up diagnosis," so she tried to appease her by looking younger. Doing everything to make her mom happy, she turned to calorie restriction (per Debra's sugge...
Prior to booking her breakout role on Nickelodeon's iCarly, Jennette recalls the anxiety-filled moment she told her mom she wanted to quit acting, immediately regretting what she had just admitted. Jennette recalls her mom's reaction in her memoir: "'Don't be silly, you love acting. It's your favorite thing in the world,' Mom says in a way that mak...
Jennette details numerous instances where she felt "exploited" as a teen actor both on and off set. The actress refers to the person behind the demands as "The Creator" throughout the memoir, never naming them. She recalls a time while filming an episode of iCarlywhen "The Creator" — whom she describes in the memoir as mean-spirited, controlling, a...
Jennette reveals she has kept a solid friendship with iCarly costar Cosgrove, even long after the series wrapped in 2012. In the book, Jennette praises Cosgrove for being a kind friend during the most difficult years of her life.
She had a different relationship with former Sam & Cat costar Grande (who played Cat Valentine on the series). In the spinoff, which only lasted one season after its 2013 premiere, Jennette says her dynamic with the singer was fraught with jealousy and resentment. As a pop star on the rise, Jennette recalls how Grande was always absent from set, wh...
When Jennette was on a conference call with several of her agents and managers following the wrap of Sam & Cat, she says she was offered $300,000 to "never talk publicly about your experience at Nickelodeon" — particularly as it related to "The Creator". "This feels to me like hush money," McCurdy recalls of her reaction, noting that she turned the...
When her mother was on her death bed with a predicted 48 hours to live, Jennette whispered in her ear news she thought would revive her. "Mommy. I am . . . so skinny right now. I'm finally down to 89 pounds," she recalls in her memoir. Following her mother's passing, Jennette says she relapsed, battling anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating yet again...
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 on August 9, 2022, by Simon ...
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Sep 6, 2022 · Books. Jennette McCurdy says she 'never expected' her memoir to connect with so many people. “I had no idea it would hit the way that it hit,” the former Nickelodeon star tells TODAY of her...
