“I was more concerned with how to keep my mom looking good than I was with expressing my true emotional reality,” the former child star explained.
“Immediately I went into, ‘well she did this, but it’s because she’s such a good mom, it’s because she wanted me to be successful, it’s because she wanted me to have a better [life],” McCurdy told Barrymore.
“I was so defensive, I didn’t realize that I was at the time, but in retrospect, I see I was disclaiming every single thing that my mom did instead of just stating the reality or how I felt about it,” she continued. “I was more concerned with how to keep my mom looking good than I was with expressing my true emotional reality.”
The former “Sam & Cat” star said it took her “baby steps” to “recognize the reality of the pain that I’d suppressed for decades.”Jennette further noted that it took her “a long time to accept that my mom was not perfect let alone abusive,” adding that those therapy sessions were the beginning of her journey to “recognize the reality of the pain that I’d suppressed for decades at that point.”
After quitting her career as an actress in 2017, the former Nickelodeon star rose back to fame after she released her