United Kingdom, Oct. 16 -- Anna Faris has been sober for a year and a half.

The 49-year-old actress admitted it "hurt" to read revelations from Mom creator Chuck Lorre's new memoir Sitcom, in which he wrote he was reluctant to cast her in the sitcom and explained how she exited for "mysterious" reasons before the eighth and final season, but she insisted she's in a much better place now.

Anna - who played Christy Plunkett, the newly sober daughter of a recovering addict, opposite Allison Janney in Mom - wrote on Instagram: "Yikes. Yes, I read a few things. I really didn't see that coming. Of course it hurts.

"Chuck gave me a job I loved, and for seven years I never took a day of it for granted.

"I'm proud of what we made together, and...