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Child actress Jennette McCurdy has detailed the complicated relationship she had with her late mother, Debbie, who was hellbent on making her a Hollywood star.
Next week, the former Nickelodeon star, now 30, will release her memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, in which she admits she never wanted to be an actress but pursued the craft because it was her mother’s dream.
In an excerpt of the memoir published by Entertainment Weekly, McCurdy recalls the bittersweet moment she was cast in her first-ever series, iCarly. Aged 14, she was relieved to score the regular role as Sam Puckett as the gig would give her and her mum some financial freedom.
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“I’m elated,” the actress writes. “Everything’s going to be different now. Everything’s going to be better. Mom will finally be happy. Her dream has come true.”
But McCurdy said she had previously told her mum she didn’t find acting enjoyable, but her concerns fell on deaf ears.
“Mom looks at me in the rearview mirror,” the former child star recalls in her memoir. “A mixture of shock and disappointment fills her eyes. I immediately regret saying anything.”
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Debbie then breaks into a fit, McCurdy says: “[She] bangs on the steering wheel, accidentally hitting the horn. Mascara trickles down her cheeks. Her hysteria frightens me and demands to be taken care of.
“‘Never mind,’ I say loudly so Mom can hear it through her sobs. Her crying stops immediately, except for one leftover sniffle, but as soon as that sniffle is over, it’s complete silence. I’m not the only one who can cry on cue.”
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McCurdy is best known for her role as Sam Puckett on iCarly, before playing the same character and iCarly and Victorious joint spin-off series called Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, but the show only lasted one season in 2014. Soon after, McCurdy slowly retreated from the spotlight.
Last year on her podcast Empty Inside, McCurdy opened up about her decision to ditch acting.
“I resent my career in a lot of ways,” she said. “I feel so unfulfilled by the roles that I played and felt like it was just cheesy, embarrassing … I imagine there’s a very different experience to be had with acting if you’re proud of your roles. I’m so ashamed of the parts I’ve done in the past.”
“I quit a few years ago because I initially didn’t want to do it,” McCurdy added. “My family didn’t have a lot of money, and this was the way out, which I actually think was helpful in driving me to some degree of success.”
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