Jennifer Aniston is set to star in the TV adaptation of Jeannette McCurdy's memoir, 'I'm Glad My Mom Died.' Former 'iCarly' star McCurdy's book details the relationship she had with her abusive mother and the road to recovery she took following her mother's death in 2013. 'I'm Glad My Mom Died' became an instant bestseller after it was published in 2022.
00:00Jennifer Aniston is set to star in the TV adaptation of Jeanette McCurdy's memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died.
00:07The star and executive producer of The Morning Show will lead another Apple TV Plus series inspired by McCurdy's best-selling memoir.
00:15Former iCarly star McCurdy's book details the relationship she had with her abusive mother and the road to recovery she took following her mother's death in 2013.
00:24I'm Glad My Mom Died became an instant bestseller after it was published in 2022.
00:30The series is described as a dramedy that will center on the codependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kid's show and her narcissistic mom who relishes in her identity as a starlet's mother.
00:42Aniston will play the mother.
00:44McCurdy will serve as a co-showrunner and Aniston is also an executive producer.
00:48McCurdy previously told The Hollywood Reporter soon after the book was released,
00:52I've been so touched by how much the emotional thrust of the story has connected with people, which I see as being my relationship with my mom.
00:59That's an important and complicated relational dynamic to explore, and to see that people are responding to it has been amazing.
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