Jennifer Love Hewitt has written a new book that debuted on December 10. A big part of the book centers on Hewitt reflecting on her mother’s death and her journey through grief.
One of Hewitt’s goals with the book is to turn “sorrow to celebration,” the description of the book indicates. The description also reveals, “When she lost her mother to cancer, everything changed” for Hewitt.
When promoting the book in a September Instagram post, Hewitt explained what drove her to write it.
She shared that she wrote the book “To celebrate my mom, the love I found and the family we made. To share magic in order to keep magic going on and on for all of us to experience.”
Hewitt, who played Susan in Hallmark’s “The Lost Valentine,” lost her mother in 2012, notes People. Her mother, Pat, died at 67 of cancer.
In the preface of her book, “Inheriting Magic: My Journey Through Grief, Joy, Celebration, and Making Every Day Magical,” Hewitt wrote about being committed to attending an event in Monaco as her mother’s health declined.
She hesitated to travel so far away but followed through with her flight. Hewitt learned of her mother’s death when the plane arrived in Monaco.
Hewitt told People, “That day, the press actually knew that my mom had passed before I did, which was such a crazy feeling.”
People shared an excerpt of Hewitt’s book where she wrote about that day. She noted the festival was in June 2012, and her mother’s diagnosis had come just months before, in February.
Her mother had gone through surgery and chemotherapy and urged her daughter to follow through with the trip. They decided to have a “cancer-free party” after Hewitt returned home.
“Something just didn’t feel right that day about leaving,” she recalled.
When Hewitt landed in Monaco, she wrote, she found three missed calls from her mother’s friend. She learned her mother was in the hospital.
“I knew deep down that I shouldn’t have left her, and that I would never forgive myself.”
She flew back home as quickly as she could. Unfortunately, her mother died before Hewitt could get to the hospital.
Hewitt wrote she “never got the chance to say goodbye.”
Grief Helped Her Find Herself
Before she left for Monaco, Hewitt wrote, she texted her mom “a picture of me holding champagne and said, ‘Cheers!’ She texted back, ‘Cheers!’ with a picture of her in a silly rainbow wig filter. It was perfect. It was her.”
She explained that was the last opportunity she had to connect with her mother.
“I’d walked out of her front door hopeful and laughing, and now I could barely walk in because she was gone. My whole life changed. I changed,” Hewitt wrote.
Hewitt noted, “I found myself through grief — as a wife, mommy, magic-maker and Holiday Junkie.”
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