Jennette McCurdy Audiobooks

I'm Glad My Mom Died, an unflinching memoir of child stardom and a mother's control

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Who is Jennette McCurdy?

Jennette McCurdy, born in 1992, is an American writer and former actress who grew up on screen. Her breakthrough came as Sam Puckett in Nickelodeon’s iCarly from 2007 to 2012 – a role that won her four Kids’ Choice Awards and carried on into the spin-off Sam and Cat – alongside a music career that produced singles, EPs and an album.

Then she walked away. In 2018 McCurdy quit acting to write and direct, and in 2022 she published the memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died: an account of childhood stardom and of her late mother’s abusive behaviour that shot straight to the top of the bestseller lists and drew serious critical acclaim. She has since begun adapting it for television, and in 2026 published her second book and first novel, Half His Age.

Jennette McCurdy in audiobooks

The memoir is the McCurdy title we carry, and that startling title, I’m Glad My Mom Died, is fair warning of the book’s honesty: an unflinching reckoning with child stardom and with a mother whose behaviour the book refuses to soften. It topped the bestseller lists because it earned the attention, not simply because of who wrote it.

Memoir is the most intimate of audio genres – one voice, one life, nowhere to hide – and this one fits the form completely. For UK listeners who never watched a minute of Nickelodeon, it stands entirely on its own: a story about family, control and getting out. Approach it as a book first and a celebrity artefact a very distant second.