Jennette McCurdy explains why she's glad her mom died
In the former child actor's memoir "I'm Glad My Mom Died," she explores her troubled relationship with her mother who pushed her into acting.
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Jennette McCurdy never wanted to be an actor. She wanted to be a writer. But her mother Debra McCurdy wanted her to act, insisting “writers get fat.” So McCurdy started working as an extra before graduating to commercial work and eventually going on to star in Nickelodeon’s “iCarly” and “Sam & Cat.”
While her on-screen characters were,” she details her complicated relationship with her abusive mother up until her death from cancer in 2013.
