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Jennette McCurdy rises above childhood trauma with new book

By ALICIA RANCILIO seizure, to look up and see
Associated Press my face (on a billboard)
Jennette McCurdy is well- felt like my life was mocking
aware the title of her new me.
book, “I’m Glad My Mom AP: Are you definitely done
Died,” (Simon & Schuster) with acting?
is attention-grabbing. She McCurdy: Recently, and
also readily admits that only since writing the book,
she means every word. there’s been a part of me
“It’s something that I mean that’s like, you know, may-
sincerely, I’m not saying it be I’ll write something for
to be flippant.” McCurdy, myself. I could see some-
who co-starred in Nickel- thing like that happening
odeon shows “iCarly” with where I think there’s a ver-
Miranda Cosgrove and sion of acting that could
its spin-off “ Sam & Cat “ potentially be healing for
opposite Ariana Grande, me now, especially if I were
hopes readers will under- the one sort of writing the
stand why she makes such thing.
a bold statement, AP: Now we should re-
“I hope that readers feel Former actress Jennette McCurdy, author of the memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” poses for a ally shout out how great it
portrait, Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Los Angeles.
that by the end of it, ‘this Associated Press is when you find the right
makes sense.’” The 30-year- therapist.
old writes in her book that Writing the book, she says, took so long in therapy. I these tears. I think abusive McCurdy: It’s so important,
her mother Debra “was a was an emotional roller- needed to do so much of love is so complicated ... right? You’ve got to try a
narcissist” who “emotional- coaster. McCurdy, who that excavating work on It’s going to be mixed and couple because you’re go-
ly, mentally and physically hosts a podcast called “ my own. messy. ing to get some doozies.
abused” her. She pushed Empty Inside, “ spoke with AP: When you think back AP: Your book is also a re- You’re going to get some
McCurdy into an acting The Associated Press about now about your childhood minder of how you never people who just make
career as a child and en- looking back, therapy and and your mom, what do really know what’s going you feel worse. They’re
couraged her to have an how she may return to work you think? on with someone because like very preoccupied with
eating disorder, McCurdy in front of the camera. McCurdy: My grandfather people would watch you their doodling or whatever
says. Her mother insisted on Answers have been edited passed away a few years on these shows and maybe they’re doing.
giving her daughter show- for clarity and length. ago, and I got to really ex- think, ‘Oh, she’s got it all.’ AP: Are you still in therapy?
ers through her late teens, AP: It’s one thing to come perience what I consider a McCurdy: Now my life is McCurdy: I am. I just saw
claiming she didn’t wash to realizations about your more conventional griev- very boring. At the time, my therapist yesterday. It’s
her hair correctly, McCurdy childhood through therapy ing process of a really close being on this children’s funny because now if I look
says. It wasn’t until seeking but another to share those family member... It was television show that’s so at my journal notes from
therapy after her mother’s discoveries with the world. heartbreaking and devas- glossy and so polished and when I first started therapy,
death from complications What made you want to put tating. With my mother’s so exactly like perfect ... my it’s like, how many times did
of cancer in 2013 that Mc- it out there, first in a one- death, I’d go from being actual life felt so the oppo- I binge and purge today?
Curdy began to fully deal woman show (also called so, so deeply angry to then site. Living in that dichoto- And, like, trying to have a
with the trauma she was “I’m Glad My Mom Died”) feeling just so sorry for her. my felt really confusing. But better relationship with al-
put through. Before thera- and now in a book? And so I could feel com- also now in retrospect, I see cohol. Now it feels like little
py, McCurdy, was drinking McCurdy: I think finding passion and sympathy and that there’s a lot of humor tuneups or thinking about
excessively and had un- shape is very important. then just anger and rage. in that. turning 30. What an amaz-
healthy romantic relation- There’s certainly many I’d cry because I missed her As agonizing as it is to be ing thing to be able to go
ships. Now after years of stages of processing. Pro- and I’d be angry that I was in the ambulance with my into a therapy session and
work on herself, she’s shar- cessing the events that crying that I missed her and mother while she’s con- just talk about (expletive)
ing her story with the world. happened in my childhood feel she doesn’t deserve vulsing in the middle of a turning 30.q

Kenan Thompson of ‘SNL’ to host Sept. 12 Emmy Awards

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vet- turns for his 20th season this comedy series “All That”
eran “Saturday Night fall. His work on “SNL” has and starred with Kel Mitch-
Live” cast member Kenan earned him a trio of Emmy ell on the spinoff “Kenan
Thompson will host next supporting acting nomina- and Kel.”
month’s Emmy Awards. tions, and he won a trophy His film credits include “Clif-
“Being a part of this incredi- in 2018 as lyrics co-writer ford the Big Red Dog” and
ble evening where we hon- of the song “Come Back, “Barbershop 2: Back in Busi-
or the best of the television Barack,” which was fea- ness.” The Sept. 12 Emmy
community is ridiculously tured on the show. ceremony will air live on
exciting, and to do it on He earned a lead acting NBC and be carried on its
NBC my longtime network nomination last year for streaming sibling Peacock.
family makes it even more his sitcom “Kenan,” which Top nominees include the
special,” Thompson said in NBC canceled in May after dramas “Succession” and
a statement Tuesday. two seasons. “Squid Game” and com-
Thompson has been with Thompson was an original edies “Ted Lasso,” “Hacks” Actor-comedian Kenan Thompson appears at the American
Museum of Natural History’s 2019 Museum Gala on Nov. 21,
NBC’s late-night sketch cast member of Nickel- and “Only Murders in the 2019, in New York.
show since 2003 and re- odeon’s children’s sketch Building.”q Associated Press