'I'm Glad My Mom Died' focuses on McCurdy's relationship with her mother and her experience of being a child star growing up with a narcissistic mother. The tv series will run for ten episodes and is decribed by Apple Tv+ as "a heartbreaking and hilarious recounting of McCurdy’s struggles as a former child actor while dealing with her overbearing, domineering mother."
Aniston has announced that she will be an executive producer aswell as star in the series. Aniston's involvement in the new series 'I'm Glad My Mom Died' will not interfere with her drama series on Apple TV+, 'The Morning Show' which she stars alongside Reese Witherspoon. A new season for 'The Morning Show' is expected to be released on the 17th of September 2025.
The show will be executivley produced by McCurdy alongside Aniston, Ari Katcher, LuckyChap, Jerrod Carmichael, Erica Kay, and Irish director, actor, and writer Sharon Horgan, the series is also written and showrun by McCurdy and Katcher. The show is coined as a dramedy, as 'I'm Glad My Mom Died' is a heartbreaking and funny recount of McCurdy's upbringing with her co dependent mother. The series will follow 18 year old McCurdy and focus on her relationship with her mother who relishes in her identity as a starlets mother. Apple TV+ greenlit the series this month, so an official release date is yet to be announced. So far, Aniston is the only cast member announced for the upcoming Apple TV+ series.
McCurdy starred in hit Nickelodeon TV series 'iCarly' and 'Sam and Cat', she discusses in her memoir her relationships with Nickelodeon producer and how she developed a severe eating disorder as a result of the pressures placed on her by external figures, most prominently, her mother. McCurdy describes her experience of being a child star and the details of her road to recovery after her mothers death in 2013. McCurdy's memoir was published in 2022 and quickly became a bestseller, with it reaching more than 80 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.
McCurdy told the Hollywood Reporter shortly after her memoir was released, "I’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, that’s an important and complicated relational dynamic to explore, and to see that people are responding to it has been amazing. And to see people responding to the humor of it and the aspect of exploring eating disorders and complicated grief, it’s really been incredible."
