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In her new book Inheriting Magic, Jennifer Love Hewitt details her grieving process after the death of her mom Pat in 2012.
Jennifer Love Hewitt Says Aging in Hollywood is "Hard"
Jennifer Love Hewitt is reflecting on a difficult grieving process.
Twelve years after her mother Patricia Mae Hewitt, died in June 2012 from cancer, the actress shared that she first heard the news when it had been circulated in the media.
“That day, the press actually knew that my mom had passed before I did,” Hewitt, whose new book Inheriting Magic details her grieving process, told People in an article published Dec. 10, “which was such a crazy feeling.”
Hewitt shared that she had just arrived in Monaco when she received a text from her mother’s friend that said, ‘She had a rough night and got very sick—she’s in the hospital.’
The 45-year-old was unable to get a flight back to Los Angeles before the next morning, and she knew as soon as she landed in California that her mother had passed, as her mom’s caregiver was there to greet her upon arrival.
“When I landed, I heard his voice at the airport,” she recalled. “I knew in that moment that he would not have left her side if she was still with us.”
And the I Know What You Did Last Summer star felt her world spinning, as she recalled, “There was just a lot of stuff about that day that was just so out of my control.”
Still, Hewitt was able to work through her grief through her writing.
“If you had asked me when my mom was still on the planet if I could live without her, I would’ve said no,” she noted of working through the grieving process. “So I’m really proud of myself.”
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In an excerpt also shared with People, the mom of three—wed to Brian Hallisay—shared how she came to terms with not getting to tell her mother an official goodbye.
“I began to feel very deeply that my mom and I weren’t supposed to say goodbye,” she wrote. “We were supposed to be laughing, planning a party and excited for the joy it would bring us and others."
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