‘iCarly’ Star Jennette McCurdy Reads Email Sent From Abusive Late Mom
Jennette McCurdy is giving insight into how her abusive late mother used to speak to her. The former iCarly star appeared on Red Table Talk, opening up to co-hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris about “decades of torment, exploitation and manipulation inflicted by her very own mother” after “years of suffering in silence.”
McCurdy, now 30, read an email from her mother Debbie about seeing a photo gossip website TMZ took of her and her boyfriend at the time in Hawaii. Debbie began by writing, “Dear Net. I am so disappointed in you. You used to be my perfect little angel, but now you are nothing more than a little SLUT, a FLOOZY, ALL USED UP.” McCurdy continues reading, “‘And to think–you wasted it on that hideous OGRE of a man. I saw the pictures on a website called TMZ–I saw you rubbing his disgusting hairy stomach. I KNEW you were lying about Colton.’ I had told her I was with a friend, Colton. ‘Add that to a list of things you are: LIAR, CONNIVING, EVIL.”
Her mother attacked McCurdy’s looks in the email next writing, “‘You look pudgier too. It’s clear you’re EATING YOUR GUILT. Thinking of you with his ding-dong inside of you makes me sick. SICK. I raised you better than this. What happened to my good little girl? Where did she go? And who is this MONSTER that has replaced her? You’re an UGLY MONSTER now. I told your brothers about you and they all said they disown you just like I do. We want nothing to do with you. Love, Mom — or should I say DEB since I am no longer your mother? P.S. Send money for a new fridge; ours broke.'”
Elsewhere in the interview, McCurdy read an excerpt from her memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died in which she recalled her mother bathing her at 11 years old with her 16-year-old brother. “Net, shower time,’ Mom shouts from another room. My whole body freezes. ‘Oh no, not shower time.’ I’ve dreaded showers for a while, five years or so. Whenever it was that I started feeling uncomfortable that mom still showers me. She doesn’t mean to make me uncomfortable, I don’t think. She says she has to shower me because I wouldn’t know how to shampoo and condition my own hair.”
“Mom showers me with Scotty sometimes. He’s almost 16 at this point. I get really embarrassed when she showers us together. I can tell he does, too. We usually just look away from each other and Scott distracts himself by drawing Pokemon in the fogged glass. He does a pretty good Charizard. When she showers us together, mom says it’s because she’s got too much to do. Scott asked if he could shower himself once. Mom sobbed and said she didn’t want him to grow up so he never asked again after that. Whether or not Scott’s there with me, mom gives me a breast and ‘front butt’ exam, which is what she calls my private parts.”
Watch the full interview below:
