{"id":647815,"date":"2026-10-16T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/647815\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T03:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:26:08","slug":"anna-faris-responds-to-chuck-lorre-saying-she-shouldnt-have-been-in-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/647815\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Faris responds to Chuck Lorre saying she shouldn’t have been in Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV mega-producer Chuck Lorre has a new memoir, Sitcom<\/a>, coming out, and it apparently pulls very few punches on the people he\u2019s worked with over the years. Here, for instance (per Deadline<\/a>), is Lorre talking about Anna Faris, who starred in seven seasons of his hit CBS series Mom, earning years\u2019 worth of strong reviews for her portrayal of a mother and recovering addict, before departing the show in 2020: \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure Anna would be appropriate for this kind of material,\u201d Lorre wrote, citing vague concerns with Faris\u2019 personal life and drawing parallels to his earlier (and highly contentious) working relationship with Charlie Sheen. \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

Even accounting for Lorre\u2019s bruised feelings about the Sheen affair, \u201cI never should have hired her in the first place\u201d is a fairly harsh assessment of someone who, along with co-star Allison Janney, brought Mom\u00a0a hefty amount of critical acclaim, especially in its early run. Faris, certainly, sounds like she\u2019s been blindsided by Lorre\u2019s account. \u201cYikes,\u201d she wrote in a statement on her Instagram on Thursday<\/a>. \u201cYes, 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<\/p>\n

Faris (who largely disappeared from the limelight following her Mom departure, returning to more regular acting work earlier this year) went on to acknowledge the issues Lorre was apparently content to wink knowingly at, adding, \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. If anyone reading this is where I was, I hope that\u2019s useful. It gets better. I\u2019m proof.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mom continued on for a single season after Faris\u2019 departure; she didn\u2019t return for its series finale in 2021.<\/p>\n