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Jennette McCurdy is about to prime the bestseller’s listing as soon as once more with the discharge of her 2026 novel, Half His Age. The I’m Glad My Mother Died writer’s ebook explores a fictional relationship between a 17-year-old and her married writing trainer, and through Jennette’s promo tour, she’s opened up about her personal expertise with a person in his 30s when she was simply 18.
Right here is all the pieces we all know up to now about Jennette’s 2026 novel, Half His Age.
Jennette recalled the previous poisonous relationship throughout her “Name Her Daddy” 2026 look.
Who Has Jennette McCurdy Dated?
Jennette has dated Jesse Carere, Andre Drummond, Paul Glaser and Graham Patrick Martin, in keeping with The Solar. She has not disclosed the identify of her present boyfriend but.
Who Was Jennette McCurdy’s Older Boyfriend When She was 18?
Jennette has not disclosed the identify of her former boyfriend, with whom she had a sexual relationship when she was 18 and he was in his 30s. Although she mentioned her expertise throughout a January 2026 interview on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast, and revealed that she met the unnamed man on the set of iCarly.
“He would present me films that he thought I would really like. Like, Dazed and Confused, which I didn’t like however I pretended to love. He would play me music that I didn’t like, however I pretended to love,” Jennette defined. On the time, the 30-something-year-old man was in a relationship with and residing with one other lady. Jennette, for her half, was raised Mormon and hadn’t engaged in a sexual relationship earlier than assembly him.
“I bear in mind he came to visit drunk one evening to my condominium,” Jennette recalled. “At this level, I’ve moved out of my mother’s, I’m very new — additionally pink flags throughout. … He comes over, and he has beer stains on his shirt, and he’s bumbling round. At this level in my life, I’ve by no means had a sip of alcohol, so I don’t perceive how drunk he’s. He was drunk off his ass, however I didn’t know. Did you drink one drink, and that’s how drunk you might be? How drunk is one drink? How drunk is 10 drinks? I had no body of reference. So, he comes over actually drunk, and we make out, and it’s quite a lot of dry humping. And it’s that for months.”
At one level, the unnamed man requested her for oral intercourse, which Jennette had no expertise with. “I didn’t know what come was,” she defined. “Now, it’s humorous, however on the time, it was tough to sort of regroup and work out, ‘What was that precisely?’ … I don’t know what that’s, as a result of I used to be raised Mormon and since I used to be homeschooled. I didn’t f**king know. He explains to me what it’s, and I’m like, ‘Properly, that sounds kinda bizarre, I’m nervous to do that.’ He’s like, ‘I’ll information you thru it, I’ll information you thru it.’”
“There have been phrases like, ‘I’m a mid-30s man, and that is one thing I want,’” Jennette recalled him saying. “‘I’m respectful of your boundary you could’t have intercourse earlier than marriage, however I even have wants of my very own.’ … And he’s saying, ‘I shouldn’t have damaged up along with her. It was the worst mistake of my life.’ He makes use of the ‘You may’t meet my wants’ factor quite a bit.”
When Does the I’m Glad My Mother Died Collection Come Out?
On the time of publication, the Apple TV+ sequence adaptation of I’m Glad My Mother Died has no set launch date. Jennifer Aniston is anticipated to star as Jennette’s late mom, Debra McCurdy.

