No extra ready! Jennifer Love Hewitt has been absent from 9-1-1 for months, however followers will quickly see her character, Maddie Kendall, once more.
Maddie disappeared throughout an October 2021 episode of the Fox collection, leaving her and boyfriend Howie “Chimney” Han’s (Kenneth Choi) daughter, Jee-Yun, on the firehouse. She defined on the time that their youngster was not protected together with her since she was battling postpartum despair.
Jennifer Love Hewitt in ‘9-1-1.’ Mathieu Younger/ FOX
“I’m certain that you’re confused, damage and doubtless actually scared. I don’t know what to say. You don’t must go to the police or come on the lookout for me. I’m not in any hazard and nobody is making me do that,” Maddie advised Chimney in a message. “However Jee shouldn’t be protected with me. Not now, and perhaps — I do know that you just’re going to take actually excellent care of her. And he or she’s higher off with out me. I like you. I like each of you, and I’m actually sorry.”
Regardless of followers’ worries that she is likely to be leaving the present, Hewitt, 43, teased in January that her character could be again throughout season 5, which returns from hiatus on Monday, March 21. “Oh Maddie how I’ve missed you,” she captioned a set of Instagram selfies. “Because you’ve been gone we each have modified. However coming again collectively feels good. See you guys in March. @911onfox.”
Later that month, the actress — who joined the present throughout season 2 in 2018 — shared an Instagram Story video of her and Choi, 50, on set collectively celebrating their reunion.
Off display screen, Hewitt gave start to her and husband Brian Hallisay’s third youngster, son Aidan, in September 2021. “Effectively that is how my children despatched me to the hospital,” she captioned an Instagram picture of stickers on her child bump. “My stomach was an enormous hit. ‘It’s stated that ladies go away their our bodies in labor… they journey to the celebs to gather the souls of their infants, and return to this world collectively.’ It was my best honor to go and acquire you Aidan James. Now again to snuggles and resting.”
The previous Shopper Listing costars, who tied the knot in November 2013, are additionally dad and mom of daughter Autumn, 8, and son Atticus, 6.
Hewitt opened up in August 2019 about how her position on 9-1-1 has impacted her kids.
“[My daughter was] finding out emergency conditions in class the opposite day and she or he was like, ‘Oh, for those who get in an emergency state of affairs, simply name my mommy. She’s not going that can assist you. She’s going to ship another person to do it,’ and I used to be like, ‘Thanks so much, babe,’” she advised Us Weekly on the time. “She requested me, ‘How come you at all times reply the cellphone, however you don’t really assist anybody?’”
Whereas Hewitt appreciates having the ability to set an instance for her kids, she typically takes her dedication too far — like when she broke face capillaries whereas filming the start of Maddie’s daughter for an April 2021 episode.
“It was fairly exhausting,” she advised Us on the time. “I had a sore throat the subsequent day. I may barely discuss. I actually laid in mattress your entire subsequent day after filming this!”
9-1-1 returns to Fox Monday, March 21, at 8 p.m. ET.
