Jennette McCurdy reflects on past relationship that inspired her new book

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00:00i don't know how to not write from a deeply personal place i was really excited to write

00:03fiction i thought oh my god like this is and i completely want to keep writing fiction that's my

00:07my really biggest takeaway from writing half his age i didn't think of him ever this person i was

00:11in a relationship with and then i'm writing this book and it was only several drafts in where i

00:18looked back and i said why why this why now and it was oh because i have so much anger left about

00:23this thing because there's so much left to process about this thing because i have to find closure

00:27on this stage of of my life through this how did you guys meet you met through through work yeah

00:33were you 17 when you met him 16 i think i was 18 by the time he started working on the show i think

00:38i'm not sure about that it's possible i was younger how did this relationship start um a lot of like

00:44hanging out on set hang out in the writer's room after work he would show me movies that he thought

00:49i would like like dazed and confused which i did not like but i pretended to like why do they all have

00:56terrible taste