Mom’s Jaime Pressly Responds to Chuck Lorre’s Comments About His Reluctance to Hire Anna Faris

Mom premiered in 2013, focusing on a single mother named Christy Plunkett (Faris) trying to restart her life and focus on sobriety, with her mother, Bonnie Plunkett (Allison Janney), also a recovering drug addict. Joined urgently Mom in the second season as Jill Kendall, a wealthy socialite who turned to Christy for help in staying sober. The show ran for eight seasons, during which critics praised Faris and Janney’s performances and storytelling. In his memoir, Lorre said he wasn’t sure Faris “would be appropriate for this kind of material”, referring to Faris’ personal life. He said his reluctance was later validated when Faris Shockingly left the show after seven seasons (Faris later described it as a “complicated time” and said she was starting to lose focus because of the “intensity” of the series. Faris, for her part, said she didn’t see Lorre’s latest comments coming and “of course it hurts.” And while Lorre might have had some gripes about the casting of Faris, Pressly looks back on that era in a very different way. “I think I really, really enjoyed being able to go to work with girlfriends every day,” she said. “All of us of a certain age, it was nice. It was refreshing.