{"id":881796,"date":"2026-10-14T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881796\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:34:08","slug":"chuck-lorre-vindicated-by-anna-faris-leaving-cbs-show-mom-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881796\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Lorre Vindicated by Anna Faris Leaving CBS Show Mom: Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still, Lorre was very proud of the show he and his co-creators made, noting, \u201cThe last few seasons, Mom found its true voice. There is hope and there is laughter in overcoming the seemingly fatal disease of alcoholism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he was disappointed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1254635\/moms-allison-janney-gives-heartbreaking-response-to-fan-asking-how-many-episodes-are-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the show was unceremoniously cancelled<\/a> after eight seasons, writing, \u201cCBS decided they could live without a perfect cast led by a national treasure. They cancelled a show starring Allison Janney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Faris, the 49-year-old recently opened up about her decision to leave Mom, explaining she wasn\u2019t prepared for how intense being on a show for so long could be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think the intensity, towards the end, I think I started to lose my focus,&#8221; she shared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dI-h4CdO1bE?si=ju53FPxjP57PHdoy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Sad Confused<\/a> podcast in June. \u201cI\u2019d never had a job\u2014besides waitressing\u2014for over three and a half months before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Faris\u2014who shares son Jack, 14, with ex Chris Pratt\u2014also noted \u201cit was a complicated time\u201d in her life and that she is still \u201calways hesitant to really chew into my experience on Mom.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still, Lorre was very proud of the show he and his co-creators made, noting, \u201cThe last few seasons,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-881796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}