You know what they say: success is the best revenge. In Jennette McCurdy’s case, revenge was a dish best served on the New York Times bestseller list, where her 2022 memoir about her emotionally abusive mother, I’m Glad My Mom Died, spent over a year and a half. But the book, which has now sold more than three-and-a-half million copies and is being turned into an Apple TV show with Jennifer Aniston playing her mother, was never about vengeance. It was about closure.
In it, the former child actor was unsparing – and also, somehow, funny – about the traumatic years she spent in the spotlight, dogged in private by an eating disorder and stuck in a web of controlling relationships. It was a staggering first book, but it was by no means McCurdy’s first time writing.
