Apple TV+ Adapting I’m Glad My Mom Died

Apple TV+ has landed the rights to adapt Jennette McCurdy’s coming-of-age memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, with Jennifer Aniston attached to star and executive produce.

The ten-episode adaptation will be written, executive produced and showrun by McCurdy and Ari Katcher (Ramy, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show).

The book provides a recounting of McCurdy’s struggles as a former child actor while dealing with her overbearing, domineering mother. The adaptation will center on the co-dependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kids’ show and her narcissistic mother who relishes in her identity as a starlet’s mother. Aniston will play the mother.

The project is being produced by Apple Studios and executive produced by McCurdy; Katcher; Aniston via Echo Films; Sharon Horgan and Stacy Greenberg for Merman (Bad Sisters, Catastrophe, Divorce); Dani Gorin, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara for LuckyChap; Jerrod Carmichael (Ramy, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show) and Erica Kay (Fosse/Verdon, Pose, Dead Ringers).

McCurdy’s memoir was published in August 2022 by Simon & Schuster. It reached more than 80 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.