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Jennette McCurdy reads disturbing email from abusive late mum

Former child star Jennette McCurdy has shared the deeply chilling words her abusive mother wrote to her during the height of her fame.

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Jennette McCurdy shared a disturbing email from her abusive late mother, Debbie McCurdy, during her Red Table Talk debut.

The US actress, 30, read the message aloud to the Facebook Watch show’s co-hosts, Adrienne Banfield Norris, Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith, while discussing her new memoir, I’m Glad My Mum Died.

“I am so disappointed in you,” Debbie began the email, which was also included in the book, reports the New York Post.

“You used to be my perfect little angel, but now you are nothing more than a little … slut, a floozy, all used up,” Jennette read in People’s sneak peek of the upcoming episode, noting that her mum used “all caps” for the insults.

Debbie slammed the iCarly alum for being with a “hideous ogre of a man” and “rubbing his disgusting hairy stomach” on a “website called TMZ.”

After calling Jennette a “conniving, evil … liar,” Debbie went on to write, “You look pudgier, too. It’s clear you’re eating your guilt. Thinking of you with his ding-dong inside of you makes me sick. Sick! I raised you better than this.”

Jennette McCurdy appears on an upcoming episode of Red Table Talk.
Jennette McCurdy appears on an upcoming episode of Red Table Talk.

Debbie asked where her “good little girl” had gone, adding, “Where did she go and who is this monster that has replaced her? You’re an ugly monster now. I told your brothers about you, and they all said they disown you just like I do. We want nothing to do with you.”

The email concluded, “P.S. Send money for a new fridge; ours broke.”

As Smith, 21, said, “Wow,” McCurdy laughed at the message’s closing.

“The P.S. gets me,” the Sam & Cat star said.

The mother-daughter pair were estranged by the time Debbie died in 2013. Seven years later, the former Nickelodeon star performed her one-woman show, I’m Glad My Mum Died, in Los Angeles and New York.

McCurdy and her <i>Sam and Cat</i> co-star Ariana Grande in 2013. Picture: Terry Doyle/ Nickelodeon
McCurdy and her Sam and Cat co-star Ariana Grande in 2013. Picture: Terry Doyle/ Nickelodeon

In interviews promoting her book of the same name, which was published in August, McCurdy spoke candidly about the eating disorders she struggled with as her mum weighed her, measured her thighs and counted her calories.

“Grief for me toward my mum used to be really complicated,” the singer said on Good Morning America last month, explaining that writing the book played a huge role in her “healing” journey.

“I felt like she didn’t deserve my tears and my sadness since she was abusive, but it simplified in a really relieving way and now feels like I’m able to just miss her,” she said.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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