Jaime Pressly has joined former “Mom” co-star Anna Faris in responding to show co-creator Chuck Lorre’s professional criticism.
\n\nIn his recent memoir “Sitcom,” Lorre wrote that he “was, in fact, right” to be hesitant to cast Faris as the lead character, Christy Plunkett. Pressly, who joined the CBS sitcom in its second season as recovering addict Jill Kendall, came to the defense of her “incredible cast of women” co-stars.
\n\n“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.”
\n\n“And I think I just really thoroughly enjoyed being able to go to work with girlfriends every day,” she added. “All of us of a certain age, it was nice. It was refreshing.”
\n\nFaris left “Mom” in 2020 ahead of its final season. At the time, she said she wanted to open herself up to other opportunities.
\n\n“I wasn’t sure Anna would be appropriate for this kind of material,” Lorre wrote in his book. “Then…
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