Anna Faris Says Chuck Lorre's Memoir Remarks on Her 'Mom' Exit Hurt

Lorre's 'Sitcom' says his doubts about casting her proved correct; Faris answered that she's been sober a year and a half.

Chuck Lorre spends part of his new memoir explaining why he cast Anna Faris as the lead of CBS's "Mom." He'd had doubts, he writes, until he thought about how he'd handled Charlie Sheen on "Two and a Half Men" and decided her personal life wasn't his business. A few pages later, he takes it back: "As the years went by, it became apparent that my initial reluctance to hire Anna was, in fact, correct," the show's co-creator writes in "Sitcom," which came out Tuesday, Deadline and TVLine reported Thursday.

Faris answered that night on Instagram. "Yikes. Yes, I read a few things. I really didn't see that coming. Of course it hurts," she wrote. Lorre gave her a job she loved, the post went on, and she valued every one of her seven years on the show.

Seven is the number the book gets wrong. Lorre writes that she left after six years, for "mysterious reasons that were not mysterious to anyone on the show," but the show ran seven seasons with Faris in the lead, as both outlets point out. He doesn't say what those reasons were, and he had no comment when TVLine reached his representative. Faris's post doesn't tie her exit to her sobriety, TVLine noted, but it ends on news of her own: she has been sober for 18 months.

Source: Deadline, retrieved October 16, 2026. Other sources: tvline.com.