The child star system, though, is what enabled McCurdy’s mother and worsened McCurdy’s mental health. McCurdy’s mother Debra died of breast cancer in 2013, but it would be years longer before McCurdy was able to understand her mother as abusive, and to grasp that she herself had never really wanted to act. Throughout the process, McCurdy says, she existed in a state of misery, struggling with eating disorders and substance abuse issues. Five years later, she got her own spinoff, Sam and Cat, co-starring Ariana Grande. In 2007, at age 15, she was cast in a supporting role on the Nickelodeon kid’s sitcom iCarly. McCurdy became a working actress at age 6, when, she writes, her mother asked her, “You want to be Mommy’s little actress?” She started as an extra, then graduated to work on commercials and guest star roles on shows like Malcolm in the Middle and CSI. I’m Glad My Mom Died doubles as a damning indictment of the child star system. The result is a detailed look at a very specific and individual childhood of horrors, but it also points to a major systemic problem. Over the course of the book, McCurdy, who built her name on Nickelodeon’s iCarly and Sam and Cat, more than makes her case, detailing years of her mother’s mental and physical abuse. The new memoir from former child star Jennette McCurdy has an attention-grabbing title: I’m Glad My Mom Died.
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