In her memoirs, McCurdy also revealed that she didn’t learn until after her mother’s death that the man she had grown up believing was her father was not her biological parent.
“I get how complicated [my father’s] role in that family was,” she explained to BuzzFeed. ”My mom had this long affair, had these three other children that weren’t his, and I imagine the timing of her cancer played a factor in his sticking around. But, as much as I try to see it from the point of view of the various adults that were in the household, I just don’t have much respect for their approach.”
She later identified her real father as a jazz musician named Andrew, and the two have met in person at least once.
“I went to meet him, and we had a really great kind of first conversation,” she later revealed to Drew Barrymore, “Then we saw each other for maybe three to four months, once a week probably for that amount of time.”
Today, she says Hollywood ”exploited” her entire childhood and that ”they knew exactly what they were doing”
”My whole childhood and adolescence were very exploited,” she told The New York Times. “It still gives my nervous system a reaction to say it. There were cases where people had the best intentions and maybe didn’t know what they were doing. And also cases where they did — they knew exactly what they were doing.”
On one occasion, she says her mother did nothing when an authority figure, whom she calls “the Creator,” gave her alcohol.
At another point, she wished her mother had stepped in when she was pressured to pose in a bikini as a teen. Instead, she told the Times that her mother would simply remind her, “Everyone wants what you have.”
In 2025, Jennette began adapting her memoir into a television series under the same title, and fans are eagerly waiting to see how it will turn out.
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