Jennifer Aniston is moving into one of the crucial emotionally charged roles of her profession.

The actress is about to play a tough mom within the upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation of Jennette McCurdy’s best-selling memoir, “I’m Glad My Mother Died.”

Nonetheless, the half is greater than only a character. It additionally echoes of Aniston’s turbulent childhood and strained relationship along with her late mom, Nancy Dow.

The e-book recounts how Debra exerted unhealthy management over her daughter’s life and profession earlier than her loss of life in 2013.

It’s a position that resonates deeply with Aniston, whose personal relationship along with her mom was marked by battle and estrangement.

“This can be a very poignant position for Jen to say the very least,” a supply instructed the Day by day Mail after information of her casting broke. “She beloved Jennette’s story and may be very keen about bringing it to life. After all, the e-book is a subject that Jen and lots of different daughters of inauspicious moms can relate to.”

Aniston can be serving as govt producer on the collection, persevering with her inventive partnership with Apple TV+, the place she at present stars in “The Morning Present” alongside Reese Witherspoon.

Jennifer Aniston has spoken publicly over time in regards to the emotionally advanced relationship she shared along with her late mom, Nancy Dow, who handed away in Could 2016 on the age of 79.

The 2 had been estranged for years, reportedly reconciling solely weeks earlier than Dow’s loss of life, after the actress paid her a ultimate go to throughout a interval of declining well being.

“It’s with nice unhappiness that my brother John and I announce the passing of our mom Nancy Dow,” Aniston mentioned in an announcement to PEOPLE Journal on the time. “She was 79 years outdated and handed peacefully surrounded by household and pals after enduring a protracted sickness. We ask that our household’s privateness be revered as we grieve our loss.”

Regardless of the solemn tone, the years main as much as Dow’s passing have been something however peaceable for the “Associates” star.

In a 2015 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aniston revealed how rising up along with her mom left deep emotional scars.

“As a result of she was a mannequin, she was beautiful, gorgeous,” she recalled. “I wasn’t. I by no means was. I truthfully nonetheless don’t consider myself in that kind of gentle, which is okay.”

“She was additionally very unforgiving,” Aniston continued. “She would maintain grudges that I simply discovered so petty.”

The stress between mom and daughter ran so deep that Aniston selected to not invite Dow to her 2015 marriage ceremony to actor Justin Theroux.

It wasn’t the one signal of distance between the 2 ladies. Dow revealed a e-book in 1999 titled “From Mom and Daughter to Associates: A Memoir,” which reportedly laid naked private particulars of their fractured bond, with out Aniston’s blessing.

The estrangement grew extra painful in Dow’s ultimate years. Based on In Contact Weekly, Aniston’s Could 12, 2016, go to was their first reunion in additional than 4 years, introduced on by Dow’s a number of strokes, which left her unable to talk or stroll.

“Jen should have had a wake-up name and needed to see her mom one final time earlier than she passes,” a supply instructed the outlet.

Dow finally left Aniston out of her will completely, in response to stories revealed two months after her loss of life.