{"id":634605,"date":"2026-10-18T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634605\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:12:09","slug":"jaime-pressly-defends-mom-co-stars-in-response-to-chuck-lorre-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634605\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaime Pressly Defends ‘Mom’ Co-Stars in Response to Chuck Lorre Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJaime Pressly<\/a> has joined former \u201cMom\u201d co-star Anna Faris<\/a> in responding to show co-creator Chuck Lorre<\/a>\u2019s professional criticism.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his recent memoir \u201cSitcom,\u201d Lorre wrote<\/a> that he \u201cwas, in fact, right\u201d to be hesitant to cast Faris as the lead character, Christy Plunkett. Pressly, who joined the CBS sitcom in its second season as recovering addict Jill Kendall, came to the defense of her \u201cincredible cast of women\u201d co-stars.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was there for seven years, but there [were] eight seasons,\u201d Pressly 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\t\u201cAnd I think I just really thoroughly enjoyed being able to go to work with girlfriends every day,\u201d she added. \u201cAll of us of a certain age, it was nice. It was refreshing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFaris left \u201cMom\u201d in 2020 ahead of its final season. At the time, she said she wanted to open herself up to other opportunities.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure Anna would be appropriate for this kind of material,\u201d Lorre wrote in his book. \u201cThen I thought about how badly I\u2019d bungled my working relationship with Charlie Sheen.\u201d Lorre and Sheen had a public feud toward the end of \u201cTwo and a Half Men,\u201d which led to the actor being fired from the hit sitcom in 2011.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs the years went by, it became apparent that my initial reluctance to hire Anna was, in fact, correct,\u201d Lorre added about Faris. \u201cAfter six years, she left the show for mysterious reasons that were not mysterious to anyone on the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFaris addressed Lorre\u2019s comments on Instagram<\/a> on Oct. 15: \u201cOf 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

\n\tShe continued, \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<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Faris left the show, Pressly starred as the main lead in the final season. \u201cMom\u201d also starred Allison Janney, Mimi Kennedy, Beth Hall and Kristen Johnston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaime Pressly has joined former \u201cMom\u201d co-star Anna Faris in responding to show co-creator Chuck Lorre\u2019s professional criticism.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[108777,430,11872,156,214885,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-634605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-anna-faris","tag-celebrities","tag-chuck-lorre","tag-entertainment","tag-jaime-pressly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}