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.”