Jennette McCurdy says her mom showered her until she was 18: ‘It felt violating’

Jennette McCurdy spoke about her memoir, “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” on a recent episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast.” Jennette McCurdy revealed this week that her late mother “showered” her and gave her “breast and vaginal exams” until she was 18. In “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” McCurdy recalls dreading “shower time” and getting “really embarrassed” when her mother would shower her and her older brother, Scott, together. She writes that her mom would give her “breast and ‘front butt’” exams in the shower whether her brother was there or not. “I’m even able to shower myself.” Published last summer, “I’m Glad My Mom Died” explores McCurdy’s fraught relationship with her mother, an eating disorder and working for the children’s TV network Nickelodeon.