Jennifer Love Hewitt opens up about her close relationship with her mother for the first time in new book Inherited magic — a title that, she said, describes how she is carrying on the legacy of her mother, Patricia May, and making everyone around her feel special.
“I’d be on a very successful TV show and we’d walk into a restaurant and people didn’t give a damn about me; that’s my mother,” Hewitt said in an interview with 9-1-1 Co-star Bryan Safi attends celebration of upcoming book and Lifetime movie vacation addict Zibby Bookstore in Los Angeles. “They wanted to know who the woman standing next to me was because she was relaxed, she was happy. She made friends with everyone and was no stranger to the world.
Hewitt went on to share an example of how her mother made the most mundane days at home magical. “If I was heartbroken or in a bad mood, she would light up the Christmas lights because she believed it would lift my mood,” she recalls with a laugh. “If I have a bad cramp, there’s a light there.”
Patricia Mae died of complications from cancer on June 12, 2012 at the age of 67.
“The part I didn’t include in the book is that the media actually knew my mother had died before I did,” said Hewitt, who was in Monaco for the 52nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival. “My flight back was so long. It was like a 10-and-a-half-hour flight, so when I arrived, everyone knew about it, which was a weird thing for me. But then, I Like, but everyone always knew everything about my life before, even after the breakup, people would be like, “He’s already cheating on you. “Really, guys? Like, why didn’t you tell me?”
Twelve years later, Hewitt says she’s finally ready to share her memories of her mother and how she now makes her family’s lives magical as a mother through her book, set to be released on Dec. 10. I never said much about her after she died because I had nothing to say. hollywood reporter. “I just didn’t know what to say, and it felt like now was a good time to talk about her and say, ‘This is what she left behind.'”
Some of these experiences will also be translated to the screen this vacation addictHewitt directs, executive produces, and stars alongside her husband, Brian Hallisay. Their three children also make cameos in the film, which is scheduled to premiere on December 14.
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brian Hallisay in “Holiday Junkies.”
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“I really wanted to make a movie for everyone,” Hewitt said, explaining the story of a woman facing her first Christmas without her mother, who might fall in love with someone who doesn’t know who she is. A man who sleeps with sadness. “I wanted to make a movie about happy people and sad people. I wanted both sides to be seen during the holidays, because that’s just the way it is. Even though I’m a holiday junkie, I found Christmas without my mom really… Sad. I always have moments where I have more than that. I think it doesn’t mean you don’t have the holiday spirit AF, it’s just that you have this hole in your heart and then it happens.
On the set of the film, Kristin Chenoweth, a close friend of Hewitt’s mother, guest-starred in the voiceover and posted a tribute on the set to commemorate the cast and crew members who had passed away.
“We put up a sign and everyone would bring a picture of their loved one who had passed away, and every day we would dedicate the film to all of them,” Hewitt said. “I really didn’t want it to feel like this was just my experience. . I want it to be everybody’s thing, because the staff and everybody at the end is like, “I feel like I really respect my dad,” or “I feel like I really respect my dad.” ‘s grandma,” or “I feel like they’re with us. It feels like it’s been a journey for everyone, and I think when it’s done, we all feel like we’ve let go, which is a beautiful feeling.
Sharing one of her final memories of her mother, Hewitt recalled how her mother would ask to hold hands every time she left the house for a shoot, day or night.
“I didn’t ask her until I was probably in my twenties, and I was like, ‘Why are we holding hands? What is this about?’ Because I didn’t really understand. She said, ‘I want you to bring your hands to work during the day. With my love and support. I want you to feel it and know I’m with you,” Hewitt said. “That’s what I miss the most. I wish I could have held her hand.
