Mom's Jaime Pressly responds after Chuck Lorre's comments about reluctance to hire Anna Faris

Mom premiered in 2013, focusing on a single mom named Christy Plunkett (Faris) trying to restart her life and focus on sobriety, along with her mother, Bonnie Plunkett (Allison Janney), also a recovering addict. Pressly joined Mom in season two as Jill Kendall, a wealthy socialite who turned to Christy for help with her sobriety. The show ran for eight seasons, during which critics praised Faris and Janney’s performances and the storytelling. In his memoir, Lorre said that he wasn’t sure that Faris “would be appropriate for this kind of material,” alluding to Faris’ personal life. He said that his reluctance was then validated when Faris shockingly left the show after seven seasons (Faris later described it as a “complicated time” and said she started to lose her focus due to the show’s “intensity). Faris, for her part, said that she didn’t see Lorre’s latest comments coming and “of course it hurts.” And while Lorre might have had gripes about Faris’ casting, Pressly looks back on that time very differently. “I think I just really thoroughly 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.”