Loretta Devine Says She Had a 'Mixed' Experience Working with Jennifer Love Hewitt onThe Client List(Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

From left: Jennifer Love Hewitt and Loretta Devine on ‘The Client List’.Photo:Michael Desmond/A&E

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Loretta Devineis reflecting on working withJennifer Love Hewitt.

TheGrey’s Anatomyactress, 75, spoke with PEOPLE about her past projects at the American Black Film Festival Honors red carpet on Monday, Feb. 17. Thinking back to her time playing Georgia Cummings onThe Client List, Devine hesitates to find a word to describe the experience.

“Mixed,” she laughs before claiming of Hewitt, who starred in and served as an executive producer of the series: “You know what? She decided to rewrite the entire angle of the show right in the middle.”

At the time, Devine says she “was very excited about it,” although the series came to an abrupt end after just two seasons.

“It was good,” she shares. “Everything gets you prepared for whatever you’re going to do next.”

PEOPLE reached out to a rep for Hewitt for comment.

From left: Loretta Devine and Jennifer Love Hewitt on ‘The Client List’.Michael Desmond/A&E

Hewitt, 45, starred as Riley Parks in the Lifetime drama, which ran from 2012 until 2013. At the time, reports claimed she and the network could not agree on a storyline for a third season,according toEntertainment Weekly.

That same year, Hewitt was pregnant with her first child, whom she shares with her now-husbandBrian Hallisay. The pair had met in 2011 but reconnected when they worked together onThe Client List,with Hallisay playing Hewitt’s estranged husband.

Hewitt currently has a leading role in9-1-1,in which Hallisay played her characterMaddie Han’sex-husband. Hewitt also worked with Lifetime again — as well as her husband — on therecent Christmas movieThe Holiday Junkie. The proud mom said playing a happy couple was a nice change of pace for their children to see.

“The first thing [my daughter] said was, ‘Mommy is he going to be nice to you this time?'” Hewitt told PEOPLE in December. “I was like, ‘Yes, sweetie, it’s a Christmas miracle. He’s playing a kind character to me.'”

Jennifer Love Hewitt attends FOX Summer TCA 2018 All-Star Party at Soho House on August 2, 2018.Frazer Harrison/Getty

Frazer Harrison/Getty

“OnThe Client List, obviously he wasn’t kind, and then in9-1-1,for sure, not kind,” she continued. “So it was really funny. My daughter was super psyched that daddy was going to be nice to me on screen.”

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Devine recently starred as the Lewin family matriarch Linda Lewin in Hallmark+’s first holiday series,Holidazed.She told PEOPLE in December that she feels “so blessed” to have had success in her career, noting that she has no intention of slowing down.

source: people.com