I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette has gone 24 hours without throwing up, a huge milestone. However, as she sits in Laura’s office, she doesn’t believe that she can do it again. Laura tells Jennette that after this huge accomplishment, she wants to start doing other kinds of work. Jennette is uneasy. Laura says that she wants to talk about Jennette’s childhood, and Jennette immediately becomes irritated. This confuses her since she likes Laura.

As Laura asks questions about her mother, Jennette becomes increasingly angry, snapping at Laura. She knows that her relationship with her mother had some troubling aspects, but she does not want to face them. Laura gently tells Jennette that her mother was emotionally abusive and caused her to begin her disordered eating. Overwhelmed and angry, Jennette leaves the office. Her entire life and identity have been believing that her mother was perfect. She goes home and violently purges. She later emails Laura, telling her that they will no longer be working together.

Steven arrives back in Los Angeles, where he will stay for the next six months for a project. Jennette is excited to have him with her, but she is dreading telling him that she quit therapy. However, as soon as Steven arrives, he begins ranting excitedly about how much he wants to take Jennette to church. She is confused, as Steven had not been a religious person. He explains that he’s realized that there is more meaning to life. She reminds him that early in their relationship, they had agreed about not being religious people. He said that he watched a Netflix documentary that changed his mind. Jennette feels uneasy because Steven is acting strangely. She questions if he has changed, or if they are no longer in a honeymoon phase. When she confesses that she has quit therapy, Steven is unaffected. He tells her that she doesn’t need therapy if she has church.

Jennette and Steven sit in church for the fourth time in a week. Steven has tried four different churches, and none of them seemed right to him. Jennette hasn’t protested because she is so relieved that she did not receive pushback about quitting therapy. She is happy when the service is over, and they head home. As Jennette starts drinking a combination of wine and vodka, Steven tells her that he has decided to take a vow of celibacy, and they should not have sex anymore. Jennette panics, as their sex life is one of the only positive things that she has in her life. Out of desperation, she seduces Steven and performs oral sex on him. Afterward, Steven said that it was a mistake, and they can never do that again.

After her father reaches out to her with a vague invitation to talk, Jennette meets up with him and his girlfriend, Karen. Karen and Jennette’s father got together a week after Jennette’s mother’s funeral. Jennette feels that they got together too quickly, but she is happy for her father. He has made more of an effort to be with his children than he did before, and they have maintained a good relationship.

Jennette realizes that something seems to be bothering her father, so she asks why he wanted to meet up. Finally, he tells her that he is not her biological father, nor is he the father of Dustin or Scottie. Jennette is shocked. Karen is in tears, and says that once she found out, she knew that Jennette needed to know. Jennette hugs her father and thanks him. She has so many questions, but she decides to ask them later. Her dad suggests they go see a movie.

Since her father, who she now refers to as Mark, told her the news a week previously, Jennette has had time to ask more questions. She has learned that her brothers do not know that he knew about the affair when it was happening, and that he knows who her real father is. She cannot understand why her mother never told her, and the more she thinks about it, the angrier she gets. She knows that she needs to vent to someone about it, but she has been avoiding telling Steven.

Finally, when she is taking a flight to Australia for a press junket in an hour, she tells Steven that she has some important news. Excitedly, Steven says that he has important news, too. Jennette says that hers is really big, and he confidently says that his is bigger. He tells her that he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. He insists that he is not irrational, and they have to keep it a secret because no one else will believe him. She realizes that the only good thing in her life has fallen apart, and she begins to cry as she leaves for the airport.

During the 14-hour flight to Sydney, Jennette is in a constant back-and-forth between her seat and the bathroom as she eats and throws up over and over again. The last time she throws up, she is exhausted. She notices something unusual in her vomit and realizes that she has lost one of her molars. When she lands in Sydney, she sees that she has a voicemail from Steven’s parents. They tell her that he called them, and they were so concerned that they flew to Los Angeles. They are now at a psychiatric facility, and Steven may have schizophrenia. Jennette reflects on how it seems that absolutely everything in her life is as bad as it could get. The new single from her former costar Ariana Grande blasts over the car radio.