I'm Glad My Mom Died

I mean, the dam kind of broke that one of the one of those members that is a Max Miller that went on the floor and said he personally stole five thousand dollars from my mother.

I listened to a book that's a memoir that I really loved that made me remember that we wrote a memoir. Yeah. And in that way.

So this chick, Jeanette McCurdy, do you know her book, I'm Glad My Mom Died? She just, it just came out. I fucking listened to it too.

It was fucking unbelievable.

It was really good.

It's ballsy and hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time. And so good.

I'm glad my mom died.

That's a crazy book title.

She's not smiling. She's holding ashes and I'm glad my mom died.

It was really good. I think it's good too. And she like audio booked it.

It was literally like listening to that was like listening to you just like having a conversation with her.

Jenette McCurdy wrote her fantastic book "I'm Glad My Mom Died" about her very abusive mother momager and her experience with Dan Schneider.

And then I remember getting to the end of her book, literally just like crying because I was.

It's fantastic. And that, I mean, that I think is the most incredible example of what a lot of these other people...

It was just an incredible book. I remember sitting, I read it last year when it came out and I was just, I mean, full, just tears reading it because these are the stories of the people that I grew up with. They're the things that I saw but was protected against.

I think for many people is seen as not just something funny, not just a story that's interesting, but in many ways a cathartic exploration of how we see the relationships that we have with many of our parents, our caregivers, whoever it was in our world because you wrote a book entitled I'm Glad My Mom Died and it is a massive hit.

I definitely don't hate my mom. I think she was a really complicated and nuanced person and I try to kind of articulate her to the best of my ability in all of her many shades and colors.

getting to the place where I was finally glad and relieved that she was dead, you know, it took me so long to be able to accept that reality.

I felt even if they did, it was a message worth sharing. I really, I really mean that.

I'm glad my mom died is available now wherever you buy a book.

It is a massive hit. So two questions. One, did you hate your mom? And two, does everybody?

I definitely don't hate my mom. I think she was a really complicated and nuanced person and I try to kind of articulate her to the best of my ability in all of her many shades and colors.

getting to the place where I was finally glad and relieved that she was dead, you know, it took me so long to be able to accept that reality.

I think it's way more common than anyone would care to admit. I know just from my experience of going into auditions countless times I'd have like 103 feet for my mom would be having me chug Gatorade. I'd be walking into like pretend to be a homeless child which is just already so kind of messed up as it is.

With my mom, I haven't gotten to a place of forgiveness. I was trying to get to a place of forgiveness for so long. In therapy, I would sort of plead almost with my therapist like, why am I not able to get to this place? What is...what's wrong with me that I'm not able to forgive my mom for this abuse? Why am I so terrible that I can't get to that place?

Jim Jenette McCurdy who's an actress who was one on one of these shows uh who that was produced by Dan Schneider who's got all these like pending out like people are starting to say he was you know very inappropriate especially with the female young female actresses uh sure at this book that went viral because it's called I'm Glad My Mom is Dead and talked about her growing up in um you know in Hollywood and what that experience life but she alluded to the experiences she had on such she didn't come out I it's probably for when I remember about it she didn't come out and say these are the names who these are who she should go after but the book was so popular it was you know on because the title so flashy everyone heard about it it wasn't a secret

Like she's Cody from serves up Streisand's autobiography follows on the heels of books from celebs like Viala Davis Jeanette Mercurdy, Matthew Perry, Pamela Anderson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Britney Spears and of course Prince Harry

So that was my understanding of a title, but thankfully we picked a better title, I think. And now that gets to live as a chapter title, which is better for me, but I think it worked out for the best, but the title was pretty difficult to come up with. I'm just proud. I came up with it. I like an inflammatory title and loud still kind of probes. Absolutely. It would have been crazy to be like, my eyes are up here.

The duo follow story. Like, it's like what? Or like, you know, I like the idea of like a catchy title, but I do get that. That was a little dark. That's what they told me. I was like, especially with after having written the whole thing and the manuscript and everything, even my editor was like, I think that this title works in better context after you read it.

Like after you read it, you're like, oh, that makes sense because it's like satirical in its very nature. And he's like, but that's not like what you want a title to be. And I was like, all right, I guess I'll trust you man who works in publishing for 20 years. Guess I'll trust you.

I'm just proud. I came up with it. I like an inflammatory title and loud still kind of probes. Absolutely. It would have been crazy to be like, my eyes are up here.

But I was thinking in the same vein as like Jeanette McCurdy's book, which is like, I'm glad my mom died. It's like, that's not necessarily true, but it's like catchy.

I've been reading a lot of books like I just read Jeanette McCurdy's book and even that like that must have been so hard for I guess her mom died so that was like a cool thing that she was able to like probably would have been a completely different book had her mom been alive

I've been reading a lot of books like I just read Jeanette McCurdy's book and even that like that must have been so hard for her.

I guess her mom died so that was like a cool thing that she was able to like it probably would have been a completely different book had her mom been alive and I think I'm right.

I haven't actually read her book but I've seen her interviews and she talks about how like there was a lot that she felt ashamed to say while her mom was still alive because it's like obviously like like I still love my mom and stuff and like there I don't want to you know like if I told the truth like it would be crazy you know what I mean but it's so frustrating to be in a text thread with only me and try to convince me that I'm making things up.

She put out a book and it's called I'm Glad My Mom Died and it's a serious book.

In the book, she talks about how she no longer wants to be called a former child star because she's trying to do stuff now.

Like every time they introduce her and she's a singer and she's an actress, they're like former child star, Jeanette McCurdy. She's like, I just don't want to be called former child star anymore.

Jeanette McCurdy, she put out a book and it's called I'm Glad My Mom Died and it's a serious book.

And she talked about a lot of the stuff that like her mom did when she was a kid actor.

It was not a good look for the mom, but that's not really what the story is about.

In the book, she talks about how she no longer wants to be called a former child star because she's trying to do stuff now.

Like every time they introduce her and she's a singer and she's an actress, they're like former child stars. Jeanette McCurdy, she's like, I just don't want to be called former child star anymore.

All those difficulties that Jimmy Kimmel was pointing to in Hunter's life, mental health problems, addiction issues, he has written about in this book.

He is just as if you think about what's in the book, it's just hard to imagine other than like Mike Barnacle's autobiography. It's hard to imagine anything more horrifying than the things he's already admitted to in that book.

The thing that the committee should be most afraid of is that Hunter has done damage to himself.

The self-inflicted damage that Hunter has done to himself is awful and he will he will cop to it.

And then she reveals that her mom was an abusive stage mother, which reminds me very much of the Jeanette McCready book in which she said, I'm glad my mother died.

And she said, oh, my mom hit me with this hairbrush that's character Lily Rose did to get me to perform.

Even with Jeanette McCurdy's book. Yes. She did a great book yeah.

They wanted to give her $300,000 to sign something when the show ended that she would never talk about Nickelodeon or Dan Schneider.

So in the book she calls him the creator but, and I'm sure that he did it because he had a food fetish.

And she even said, God, at one point I was like, what was I thinking?

And it's really interesting because it's like, it's that whole child star thing.

And she gets her, she's supposed to have her own spinoff show. Instead, they put her with another star and it's called Cat and Sam and she's the lead.

And she starts to talk about this in her book. And then the book is called I'm Glad My Mom Died.

And she had some mental, some physical things like cancer and she did pass away.

She's very candid about how jealous she was of Ariana Grande, who at that time wasn't the musical superstar that she is today.

She's like, I'm jealous about this because I come from nothing. She comes from Boca Raton. Her mother buys her Gucci bags. She's had all these opportunities.

I wonder what's your personal narrative of being a child star and how you came through that because we don't hear you talk about that too much.

I thank them in the front of our book, one of the, I thank the Spice Girls and my mom.