Jennette McCurdy’s memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died is becoming a TV show starring Jennifer Aniston

Jen­nette McCur­dy and Jen­nifer Aniston.Credit: 

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Jen­nette McCur­dy’s best­selling mem­oir, I’m Glad My Mom Died, is get­ting the small-screen treat­ment.

Apple TV+ revealed Tues­day that it’s releas­ing a 10-episode dram­e­dy star­ring Jen­nifer Anis­ton, who’s already the star of the stream­er’s Emmy-win­ning The Morn­ing Show, inspired by the 2022 book.

McCur­dy will write, pro­duce, and showrun along­side Ari Katch­er, who’s worked on Ramy and the Jer­rod Carmichael Real­i­ty Show. Her co-exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers will be Anis­ton and Katch­er.

It was only a mat­ter of time before the New York Times best­seller was adapt­ed for the screen. The sto­ry fol­lows McCur­dy’s years as a child star, appear­ing on series such as Law & Order: Spe­cial Vic­tims Unit and Will & Grace, before earn­ing a place in the cast of Nick­elodeon’s iCar­ly in 2007.

In her page-turn­er, McCur­dy recalls that she want­ed to quit act­ing, but her mom con­tin­u­al­ly pushed her into the enter­tain­ment busi­ness and guilt­ed her into audi­tion after audi­tion. Her moth­er died of can­cer just as the actress starred in a spin­off, 2013’s Sam & Cat, which costarred Ari­ana Grande.

But McCur­dy recount­ed that she did­n’t real­ly process all that she’d been through with the rela­tion­ship and fig­ure out what she want­ed for her­self until she sought ther­a­py years lat­er.

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“It was impor­tant for me to explore the emo­tion­al and psy­cho­log­i­cal abuse I endured dur­ing my time as a young per­former,” she told EW ahead of the book’s release. “I feel I did­n’t have the tools, lan­guage, or sup­port nec­es­sary to speak up for myself back then, so this book is a way for me to not only hon­or that expe­ri­ence and give voice to my for­mer self, but hope­ful­ly to encour­age young peo­ple to speak up for them­selves in envi­ron­ments where they may be con­di­tioned to just ‘play ball’ and ‘be a good sport.’ (Sor­ry for the sports idioms, I’ve nev­er played sports, so I have no idea why they’re spilling out of me.)”

Around the time the book was released, McCur­dy said that she was done with act­ing, and she described some of her ear­li­er roles as “cheesy, embar­rass­ing.”

“I feel so unful­filled by the roles that I played,” McCur­dy said on her Emp­ty Inside pod­cast in March 2021. “I imag­ine there’s a very dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence to be had with act­ing if you’re proud of your roles, and if you feel ful­filled by them.”