Jaime Pressly is standing up for the women of Mom. After Anna Faris responded to co-creator Chuck Lorre’s professional criticisms in his new memoir Sitcom, Pressly has chimed in with a defense of her co-stars, calling them “an incredible cast of women” who were “beautifully flawed” — just like the characters they played.
Jaime Pressly and Anna Faris in ‘Mom’ (Credits: Sonja Flemming/CBS/Courtesy Everett Collection)
What Lorre Wrote
In his memoir, Lorre doubled down on his past reluctance to cast Faris as Christy Plunkett, writing that he “was, in fact, right” about his initial reservations. Faris, who left the CBS sitcom after seven seasons, has said she was “hurt” by the comments.
Pressly, who played recovering addict Jill Kendall for seven years after joining in season two, offered a markedly different assessment of her time on the show.
Pressly’s Defense
“I was there for seven years, but there [were] eight seasons,” Pressly told E! News. “I 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.”
Her words cut to the heart of what made Mom resonate with viewers: a sitcom about recovery and second chances, carried by an ensemble of women playing messy, real, deeply human characters. Pressly’s framing reclaims that messiness as a strength — both on screen and off.
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Source: Deadline — read the full story there.
