Jennifer Aniston Confronts Her Previous In Daring New Position

Jennifer Aniston is getting into one of the vital emotionally charged roles of her profession.

The actress is about to play a tough mom within the upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation of Jennette McCurdy’s best-selling memoir, “I’m Glad My Mother Died.”

Nonetheless, the half is greater than only a character. It additionally echoes of Aniston’s turbulent childhood and strained relationship together with her late mom, Nancy Dow.

The ebook recounts how Debra exerted unhealthy management over her daughter’s life and profession earlier than her demise in 2013.

It’s a position that resonates deeply with Aniston, whose personal relationship together with her mom was marked by battle and estrangement.

“This can be a very poignant position for Jen to say the very least,” a supply advised the Every day Mail after information of her casting broke. “She liked Jennette’s story and could be very obsessed with bringing it to life. After all, the ebook is a subject that Jen and plenty of different daughters of inauspicious moms can relate to.”

Aniston can also be serving as govt producer on the sequence, persevering with her inventive partnership with Apple TV+, the place she presently stars in “The Morning Present” alongside Reese Witherspoon.

Jennifer Aniston has spoken publicly through the years concerning the emotionally complicated relationship she shared together with her late mom, Nancy Dow, who handed away in Could 2016 on the age of 79.

The 2 had been estranged for years, reportedly reconciling solely weeks earlier than Dow’s demise, after the actress paid her a ultimate go to throughout a interval of declining well being.

“It’s with nice unhappiness that my brother John and I announce the passing of our mom Nancy Dow,” Aniston stated in a press release to PEOPLE Journal on the time. “She was 79 years previous and handed peacefully surrounded by household and associates after enduring a protracted sickness. We ask that our household’s privateness be revered as we grieve our loss.”

Regardless of the solemn tone, the years main as much as Dow’s passing have been something however peaceable for the “Mates” star.

In a 2015 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aniston revealed how rising up together with her mom left deep emotional scars.

“As a result of she was a mannequin, she was attractive, beautiful,” she recalled. “I wasn’t. I by no means was. I actually nonetheless don’t consider myself in that type of gentle, which is ok.”

“She was additionally very unforgiving,” Aniston continued. “She would maintain grudges that I simply discovered so petty.”

The stress between mom and daughter ran so deep that Aniston selected to not invite Dow to her 2015 wedding ceremony to actor Justin Theroux.

It wasn’t the one signal of distance between the 2 ladies. Dow printed a ebook in 1999 titled “From Mom and Daughter to Mates: A Memoir,” which reportedly laid naked private particulars of their fractured bond, with out Aniston’s blessing.

The estrangement grew extra painful in Dow’s ultimate years. Based on In Contact Weekly, Aniston’s Could 12, 2016, go to was their first reunion in additional than 4 years, introduced on by Dow’s a number of strokes, which left her unable to talk or stroll.

“Jen should have had a wake-up name and wished to see her mom one final time earlier than she passes,” a supply advised the outlet.

Dow in the end left Aniston out of her will fully, based on studies printed two months after her demise.