Sam Puckett, Jeanette McCurdy and I'm Glad My Mom Died

I've had the rather surreal experience of reading I'm Glad My Mom Died and watching series 6 of icarly at the same time.

It certainly makes everything very real - and actually adds to what a good actress Jeanette McCurdy became - with all she was going through at the time.

I'm aware that when her mum was in hospital etc was around when she started Sam and Cat, (which is heartbreaking btw that she'd have to do that and then sit by her mother's bedside afterwards),

So those events happened after iCarly but equally she was still struggling with her anorexia and bulimia around the same time she was shooting series 4-6 and before that of iCarly. It also adds flesh to her story in that she describes herself as living opposite Nickelodeon studios, and as someone who likes background I found that interesting to know that as she acted Sam in the latter serieses, from age 18-20 she'd moved out of the majority of her mother's control (but was equally very much under it still).

The fact she describes her first kiss with Nathan (Freddie) and how much she hated it, the way she was treated on set, makes me feel bad for how well the show did despite the conditions it was shot in.

It's fairly rare to have footage of scenes from an author's life that they're describing, and I just wondered if anyone's found themselves reading her autobiography and watching any of her film content she had over the years, at the same time. (And what they took away from it).