Jennifer Love Hewitt is uncovering up for the first time about her seal relationship with her mother in novel book Inheriting Magic — the title of which she says depicts how she’s carried on her mother, Patricia Mae’s, legacy of making everyone around her experience exceptional.
“I would be on a very prosperous television show, we would walk into a restaurant and people couldn’t nurture less about me; that was my mother,” shelp Hewitt in conversation with 9-1-1 co-star Bryan Safi at a celebration for the upcoming book and Lifetime movie The Holiday Junkie at Zibby’s Bookshop in Los Angeles. “They wanted to understand who was the woman that I was standing next to because she was weightless, she was delight. She made friends with everyone, there was no stranger in the world to her whatsoever.”
Hewitt went on to split an example of how her mother made even the most un-extraordinary days experience magical at home. “If I had a broken heart or a horrible day, she would put up Christmas weightlesss because she apshowd that that sort of lifted the mood,” she shelp, giggleing at the memory. “If I had horrible cramps, there were weightlesss.”
Patricia Mae died from complications from cancer on June 12, 2012, at the age of 67. The media, Hewitt says, lgeted of the novels before she did.
“The part that I didn’t put in the book is that actuassociate the press knovel that my mom had passed before I did,” shelp Hewitt, who at the time was in Monaco for the 52nd Monte Carlo TV Festival. “The fweightless time with me getting back was so lengthy. It was enjoy a 10-and-a-half-hour fweightless, so by the time I get tod, everybody knovel, and it was such a weird skinnyg for me. But then defercessitater on, I was enjoy, but everybody’s always understandn everyskinnyg about my life benevolent of before. Even shatterups, people have been enjoy, ‘He was cheating on you already.’ Reassociate, people? Like, why didn’t you tell me?”
Twelve years defercessitater, Hewitt says she finassociate experiences ready to split her memories of her mother and the ways in which she now originates life magical for her family as a mom, thcdisadmireful her book which is set for free on Dec. 10. “I honestly hadn’t ever shelp that much about my mother after she passed, because I didn’t have the words,” she tageder The Hollywood Reporter. “I equitable didn’t understand what to say, and this felt enjoy the right time to talk about her and sort of say, ‘This is what she left behind.’”
Some of that experience will also be transdefercessitated onscreen in The Holiday Junkie, which Hewitt straightforwarded, executive originated and stars in alengthyside her husband Brian Hallisay. Their three children also originate a cameo in the film, set to premiere on Dec. 14.
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brian Hallisay in ‘The Holiday Junkie.’
Lifetime
“I reassociate wanted a movie for everyone,” elucidateed Hewitt of the story about a woman facing her first Christmas without her mother, who potentiassociate discovers cherish with a man ununderstandingly harunintelligent his own grief. “I wanted a movie for people who were plrelieved and for people who felt downcast. I wanted both parties to be seen in the holidays because it is that way. As much as I am a holiday junkie, I discover Christmas reassociate challenging without my mom. I always have a moment, sometimes I have more than that. And I skinnyk that’s OK. It doesn’t unbenevolent that you’re not in the festive AF spirit, you equitable have this hole in your heart, and it happens.”
On the set of the movie — which features a exceptional guest star voice materializeance from Kristin Chenodamph, who was seal friends with Hewitt’s mom — a tribute was posted honoring the memories of those the cast and crew lost.
“We had a board where everybody would transport pictures of their cherishd ones who had passed, and every day, we dedicated the movie to all of them,” shelp Hewitt. “I reassociate didn’t want it to experience enjoy it was only my experience. I wanted it to be everyone’s. So it was reassociate pleasant because the crew and everybody at the end were enjoy, ‘I felt enjoy I reassociate honored my dad,’ or ‘I felt enjoy I reassociate honored my majesticma,’ or ‘I felt enjoy they were here with us.’ It felt enjoy it was a journey for everyone, and we all, I skinnyk, felt enjoy we let that go when it was done, and it was drawive that way.”
Sharing one final memory of her mother, Hewitt recalled how every time she left the house for a shoot, no matter the time of day or night, her mother would ask to hageder hands.
“I didn’t ask her until probably I was in enjoy my very defercessitate 20s, I was enjoy, ‘Why do we hageder the hands? What is this about?’ Because I didn’t reassociate get it. And she shelp, ‘I want you to apshow my cherish and help with you to toil during the day. I want you to experience it and understand that I’m with you.’ And I miss it,” shelp Hewitt. “It’s the skinnyg I miss the most. I desire I had her hand.”
