{"id":2268169,"date":"2026-02-05T16:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2268169"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:16:35","slug":"jennette-mccurdy-on-the-power-of-finally-letting-yourself-be-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennette-mccurdy-on-the-power-of-finally-letting-yourself-be-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennette McCurdy on the Power of Finally Letting Yourself Be Angry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"56ec51b4-fbde-49f2-801c-90ba1fd01178\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/culture\/books\/best-celebrity-memoirs\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/culture\/books\/best-celebrity-memoirs\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/culture\/books\/best-celebrity-memoirs\/\">Jennette McCurdy<\/a> became a celebrated author with her 2022 memoir, <em>I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died.<\/em> Ask how she went from feeling powerless as a child actor to taking control of her life and work, and she\u2019ll tell you her own rage helped her get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think any decision that I&#8217;ve made in my life that has put my life on a significantly better path has been a decision made from a place of rage,&#8221; the 33-year-old tells <em>Marie Claire <\/em>editor-in-chief Nikki Ogunnaike on the latest episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/nice-talk\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/nice-talk\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/nice-talk\/\">&#8220;Nice Talk.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"56ec51b4-fbde-49f2-801c-90ba1fd01178-2\">&#8220;Rage is the reason that I was able to overcome an eating disorder,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;Rage is the reason that I&#8217;m in a healthy and loving relationship of nine years. Rage is the reason that I quit acting and started writing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n<span class=\"&#10;after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t-[#333] after:border-t after:border-solid&#10;before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t-[#333] before:border-t before:border-solid&#10;font-article-heading pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333] flex custom-thumbnail-list-styles\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Of course, everyone experiences rage differently\u2014different reasons, different scales, different frequencies\u2014but, as McCurdy explains it, anyone can benefit from recognizing when they feel anger and exploring what it might mean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we can only touch base with our anger and sit back and go, &#8216;What is the information it&#8217;s giving? What am I angry about that can lead us to make better life choices moving forward?&#8217; she says. &#8220;It might be jarring. It might be anger toward the relationship you&#8217;re in. It might be anger toward the career you&#8217;re in. It might be anger toward your best friend, who you&#8217;ve outgrown. That anger is trying to tell you something really, really, really important, and so suppressing it is only going to keep you on a disingenuous path.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout \" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\" id=\"9872ace5-47a8-4d38-ac9f-35350d997b34\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:1650px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:150.00%;\"> <picture data-new-v2-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/tG9nzkDQFrD2to2zq5e3mj-1650-80.jpg.webp 1920w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/tG9nzkDQFrD2to2zq5e3mj-1600-80.jpg.webp 1600w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/tG9nzkDQFrD2to2zq5e3mj-1280-80.jpg.webp 1280w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/tG9nzkDQFrD2to2zq5e3mj-1024-80.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/tG9nzkDQFrD2to2zq5e3mj-768-80.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/tG9nzkDQFrD2to2zq5e3mj-415-80.jpg.webp 415w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/tG9nzkDQFrD2to2zq5e3mj-360-80.jpg.webp 360w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/tG9nzkDQFrD2to2zq5e3mj-320-80.jpg.webp 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 710px) 670px, calc(100vw - 30px)\"\/>\n<\/picture><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>(Image credit: Penguin Random House)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"c7e537f2-0acf-410f-a737-200572ec352c\">McCurdy released her second book\u2014and first novel\u2014<em>Half His Age<\/em> in January, and, as she puts it, \u201crage is a huge theme\u201d throughout. The story follows Waldo, a 17-year-old girl, who enters a sexual relationship with her teacher\u2014and it aims to leave readers a little disoriented and unsure of what to think.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really wanted the reader to be uncomfortable and to just feel because, ultimately, what you&#8217;re supposed to feel is neither here nor there,&#8221; the writer says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-gSobwGQumuhMQBgk2ttPzS\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-gSobwGQumuhMQBgk2ttPzS slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Get exclusive access to fashion and beauty trends, hot-off-the-press celebrity news, and more.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She adds that there was &#8220;a lot of unprocessed anger about situations from my past that I think was fueling this process and the writing of this book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCurdy was in &#8220;a significant age gap relationship&#8221; when she was 18, but she warns that &#8220;to project me onto it too much\u2014which I&#8217;m aware people will do\u2014I think would be a complete misread.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She goes on, &#8220;Waldo really does deserve to be seen as her own character, because she is that. But I do think that unprocessed rage was the emotional charge that got this book done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more from McCurdy\u2014including about her style evolution and the expensive purchase she made after the success of her memoir\u2014check out this week\u2019s installment of &#8220;Nice Talk&#8221;. The episode is available everywhere you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-e4e08e4b-0453-48f1-88b1-87d2b0077b78\"\/><iframe allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" height=\"352\" width=\"100%\" id=\"\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" class=\"position-center\" data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5O2Nq7QgOBbaR75LcENjSv?utm_source=generator\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.marieclaire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennette McCurdy became a celebrated author with her 2022 memoir, I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died. 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