Jennifer Love Hewitt has revealed that the press knew about her mom’s death before she did. The 45-year-old star shot to fame in the ‘90s when she was just a teenager, starring in shows such as Party of Five and Kids Incorporated , as well as movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer . Jennifer’s mom, Patricia Hewitt, passed away from cancer in 2012 at age 67, and Jen — who was 33 at the time — opens up about her healing journey through the grief in her upcoming book, Inheriting Magic: My Journey Through Grief, Joy, Celebration, and Making Every Day Magical .
Per the Hollywood Reporter , Jennifer spoke about the day her mom died at a recent bookshop event in Los Angeles, and said that she’d been in Monaco for the 52nd Monte Carlo TV Festival. She was on a plane home when Patricia died, with Jennifer purportedly explaining at the event: “The part that I didn’t put in the book is that actually the press knew that my mom had passed before I did.” “The flight time with me getting back was so long,” she continued.
“It was, like, a 10-and-a-half-hour flight, so by the time I arrived, everybody knew, and it was such a weird thing for me.” Jennifer reportedly went on to say that this isn’t the only time that the media have been aware of things that were happening in her life before she was. “Later on, I was like: ‘But everybody’s always known everything about my life, kind of, before,’” she said.
“Even breakups, people have been like: ‘He w.