Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brian Hallisay on Lifetime’s ‘The Holiday Junkie,’ Their Crazy ‘9-1-1’ Storyline and Whether She’ll Be in the New ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’

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Max Gao Jennifer Love Hewitt is finally ready to talk about her mother. More than 12 years after losing the woman whom she considered the center of her universe to cancer, Hewitt has channeled her grief into two new projects which honor the legacy of “magic” that her mother left behind. “I don’t know that we truly appreciate who our mothers really are until we’ve either lost them, unfortunately, or until we get old enough to realize all that goes into being a mom,” Hewitt tells Variety. “So I’ve had such a new experience with my mother in this time — in really taking in, as an adult, all that she did for me, all that she went through in her life, and all that she was probably struggling with when I was a kid.

And [she] still was able to create what I remember and take in as a magical childhood and a magical experience with her as my mom.” In her book “Inheriting Magic” (publishing Dec.

10), Hewitt offers a rare glimpse into her life with her husband, actor Brian Hallisay, and their three children — Autumn, Atticus and Aidan.

The book is a collection of never-before-seen personal photographs, family recipes, creative party plans and “foolproof” ways to inject a little childlike wonder into any daily routine (which Hewitt describes as one of the hallmarks of her upbringing).