Jennifer Love Hewitt Reveals How Her ‘9-1-1’ Character’s Postpartum Journey Coincided With Her 3rd Pregnancy
usmagazine.comAfter Jennifer Love Hewitt‘s character abruptly left Los Angeles during an October 2021 episode of Fox’s 9-1-1 amid difficult postpartum depression struggles, the actress is ready to return and share an impactful story.“I knew when we started the storyline where it was going to end up.
And taking the break to go have a real baby and then come back to it was strange and a little daunting,” Hewitt, 43, told Entertainment Tonight on Friday, March 25. “It was really important to us to tell the real story.
PPD, postpartum depression, has been done on other shows, it’s something that’s out there. It’s something that people talk about.
But it’s usually a lighter version of what that looks like. Or the diagnosis is lighter than what Maddie has dealt with.”She continued: “Hers is a really extreme version of what postpartum can cause in someone’s life, heightened by having a baby in a pandemic on the show and everything else that she’s been through as a character.
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