{"id":932113,"date":"2026-10-18T02:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932113\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T02:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:16:10","slug":"jaime-pressly-defends-mom-co-stars-after-chuck-lorre-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932113\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaime Pressly Defends ‘Mom’ Co-Stars After Chuck Lorre Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter Anna Faris<\/a> responded to Mom<\/a> co-creator Chuck Lorre<\/a>\u2018s professional criticisms, Jaime Pressly<\/a> has chimed in.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress, who played recovering addict Jill Kendall on the CBS sitcom, defended her co-stars as \u201can incredible cast of women\u201d after Lorre wrote in his memoir Sitcom that he \u201cwas, in fact, right<\/a>\u201d about his reluctance to cast Anna Faris in the lead as Christy Plunkett.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was there for seven years, but there [were] eight seasons,\u201d she told E! News<\/a>. \u201cI came on in the second season, but I had seven wonderful years of working with an incredible crew and an incredible cast of women, who were, all of us, just as beautifully flawed as our characters on the show were.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPressly continued, \u201cAnd I think I just really thoroughly enjoyed being able to go to work with girlfriends every day. All of us of a certain age, it was nice. It was refreshing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an excerpt from Sitcom<\/a>, Lorre wrote: \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure Anna would be appropriate for this kind of material. Then I thought about how badly I\u2019d bungled my working relationship with Charlie Sheen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Allison<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAllison Janney, Mimi Kennedy, Beth Hall, Jaime Pressly and Anna Faris in \u2018Mom\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCliff Lipson\/CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter his experience with Sheen on Two and a Half Men, Lorre recalled conceding, \u201cSomeone\u2019s personal life is none of my business. The mom in Mom would be, and should be, Anna Faris.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLorre added: \u201cAs the years went by, it became apparent that my initial reluctance to hire Anna was, in fact, correct. After six years, she left the show for mysterious reasons that were not mysterious to anyone on the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPremiering in 2013, Faris starred in the first seven seasons of Mom as Christy, a recovering alcoholic who struggles to maintain a job, her family and her sobriety as her mom Bonnie (Allison Janney), who\u2019s also in recovery, moves in with her.<\/p>\n

\n\tFaris left the show<\/a> in 2020 to \u201cpursue new opportunities,\u201d leaving Janney as the sole lead for the eighth and final season, which ended in 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing Lorre\u2019s comments, Faris shared her response<\/a> Thursday on Instagram. \u201cYikes. Yes, I read a few things. I really didn\u2019t see that coming. Of course it hurts. Chuck gave me a job I loved, and for seven years I never took a day of it for granted. I\u2019m proud of what we made together, and nothing changes how grateful I am for those people and those years,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been sober for a year and a half. I was on a show about recovery, and then I lived it. Now I\u2019m healthy, I\u2019m working, and I\u2019m happier than I\u2019ve been in a long time,\u201d Faris continued. \u201cIf anyone reading this is where I was, I hope that\u2019s useful. It gets better. I\u2019m proof.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Faris and Janney, Pressly starred in the series alongside Mimi Kennedy, Beth Hall and Kristen Johnston, playing their supportive group of friends from Alcoholics Anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Anna Faris responded to Mom co-creator Chuck Lorre\u2018s professional criticisms, Jaime Pressly has chimed in. The actress,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15290,64,63,91160,134,498878,50554,427],"class_list":["post-932113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-anna-faris","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chuck-lorre","tag-entertainment","tag-jaime-pressly","tag-mom","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}