Jennifer Love Hewitt reveals she learned about her mother’s death from the media

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Jennifer Love Hewitt has opened up about grief following her mother’s passing in 2012 and how the media knew about her death before she did.

The Ghost Whisperer Star, 45, recently opened up about her upcoming book Inherit Magic – where she talks about her healing journey after her mother’s death from cancer – at a bookstore event in Los Angeles, California, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Hewitt’s mother, Patricia Mae Hewitt, died of complications from cancer on June 12, 2012, aged 67. I know what you did last summer actor, who was 33 at the time, shared that she learned about her mother’s passing through the media.

“The part that I didn’t write in the book is that the press actually knew my mother had passed before I did,” Hewitt said at the event. At the time, she was in Monaco for the 52nd Monte Carlo TV Festival.

“The flight time to get back was so long,” she recalled. “It was like a 10-and-a-half-hour flight, so when I arrived, everyone knew, and it was such a strange thing for me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt says she learned about her mother's passing through the media

Jennifer Love Hewitt says she learned about her mother’s passing through the media (Getty Images)

“But later I was like, but everybody always knew everything about my life, kind of before. Even brides, people have been like, ‘He already cheated on you.’ Really, people? Like, why didn’t you tell me?” “

IN Inheriting Magic: My Journey Through Grief, Joy, Celebration, and Making Every Day Magicalwhich is set for release on December 10, Hewitt opens up about her close relationship with her mother, who she said made everyone around her feel special.

“I’d be on a very successful TV show, we’d go into a restaurant and people couldn’t care less about me; it was my mother,” the 9-1-1 explained the actor. “They wanted to know who was the woman that I stood next to because she was light, she was joy. She made friends with everyone, there was no stranger in the world to her at all.”

Hewitt, who stars in the upcoming Lifetime Christmas movie The holiday junkieremembered how her mother even tried to bring joy to the gloomiest occasion.

“If I had a broken heart or a bad day, she would put Christmas lights up because she thought that kind of lifted the mood,” she said. “If I had bad cramps, there was light.”

Hewitt's mother Patricia Mae died in 2012 after complications with cancer

Hewitt’s mother Patricia Mae died in 2012 after complications with cancer (Getty Images)

speaks to The Hollywood Reporter, Hewitt admitted that she had “never said that much about (her) mother” after she passed because she “didn’t have the words” before.

“I just didn’t know what to say and it felt like the right time to talk about her and kind of say, ‘This is what she left behind,'” she told the paper.

Hewitt has been married to actor Brian Hallisay since 2013. The couple share three children together – daughter Autumn, 10, and sons Atticus, nine, and Aiden, three.

In June last year was Heart breakers star honored his mother on the 11th anniversary of her passing. She saluted Instagram by sharing a recurring image of himself with Patricia Mae.

“11 years ago my life changed in an instant. We didn’t get to say goodbye but I think it’s because we wouldn’t have known how,” Hewitt wrote in the caption. “I see you in my children every day. I feel you in things I say and smile because I’m more like you than I thought. I honor you by trying to create magic for my family just like you did for us. I love you deeply.

“I’m so thankful you were our mom. This day will always hurt because you were so special. Always and forever mom.”