Jennifer Love Hewitt

'9-1-1' 'Boston' featured Kira, Maddie Buckley's new friend. Here's what Jennifer Love Hewitt said about working with actor A.J. Cook.

I was excited to come back and tell Maddie’s story and answer a lot of questions for people.” I think the audience has a lot of questions,” Hewitt told Entertainment Weekly. “And I feel good about the fact that all of them will be answered on Monday.” The 9-1-1 “Boston” cast brought Jennifer Love Hewitt back to the forefront. “Kira’s such an interesting character, and we both really had to hold each other up a lot in the episode in our different storylines and representations of women and moms and mental health issues,” she added. It was like she was coming into 9-1-1 where I’ve been for a while, and she was getting to come in and have some fun.” Fox’s 9-1-1 Season 5 Episode 12, titled “Boston,” brought Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Maddie Buckley back to the forefront.

And with the timing of everything, I also ended up sort of being on my own postpartum journey as I was filming her postpartum episodes. It was very interesting ...

No. But can you step back in when one person has been left, and the other person felt like they had to leave, and go right back into a normal relationship? You must just be feeling weird.’ I appreciated that in Maddie’s storyline, we really get into how part of what happened to her was just a missed hormone panel that no one paid attention to because she fell into this rare category of people who needed this certain kind of thing for her thyroid,” Hewitt tells TVLine. “I’m sure there will be women out there watching who will think, ‘I’ve been feeling weird, maybe I need to go ask for that and look more into that.’ Or reach out to people and say, ‘I’m not feeling right,’ and they have to pay attention.” We’re not going to leave the audience hanging on that answer for very long, but it won’t feel totally put back together and normal right away. She is just happy to be a mom again, and feel confident and good about her ability to do so.” “The after having a baby part is as important for the mom and for the partner of the mom to pay attention to,” Hewitt adds. From he moment she is able to go, ‘I am ready to be a mom again and I can do that,’ she’s going to full into being a mom again. But she persevered, returning to the Boston hospital where she worked as a nurse, this time to check herself in as a patient. “No one wants to upset the tired new mom who’s breastfeeding and doing all of this. Fortunately, I had people around me to pay attention and tell me that I didn’t seem like myself or that maybe I was struggling more than I was allowing myself to vocalize. It was very interesting timing throughout the whole thing for her and I. It was actually very helpful. And with the timing of everything, I also ended up sort of being on my own postpartum journey as I was filming her postpartum episodes. The episode, a deep exploration of Maddie’s postpartum struggles, also hit close to home for Hewitt.

During the episode, viewers learned where Maddie (Hewitt) has been all this time, and why she wouldn't come home to Chimney (Kenneth Choi) and their baby girl ...

What we want is whenever Maddie and Chimney find their way back together, if they find their way back together, that it is for good. Honestly, with people who have as much trauma as Maddie has had and as much trauma as Chimney has had in his own right, two people coming back together that easily and it all just being wrapped up in a bow would feel like, at some point again, one of them is going to break. The one thing that is what it is, from the end of the Boston episode through the season, is that Maddie is well enough and 100% ready to be a mom. And in that scene where she kind of remembers her and walks to her, that was really important for us because, ultimately, Maddie’s story was about her dealing with years and years and years of all kinds of trauma. And the idea was that I would sink under the water and I would just stay there for a second. And I did and then something happened in sort of the coming up of it, and the camera guy kept going, so I kept going. It was daunting for me to know that I was going out there that day to do that, and then to think about where people are when they reach that moment. And then in the end, when she forgives her, in the way that babies and kids can do, it’s beautiful. And in this, I wanted that to not be there anymore. Cut to six months later, Maddie is in a much better place and almost ready to go home to L.A., though still very afraid to do so, when she runs into Chimney — who has spent months on the road with Jee looking for Maddie — while they are both trying to help injured people on the streets of Boston on St. Patrick’s Day. And the idea that I would just sort of walk out there as quickly as possible and as determined as possible to not have her be here anymore. While in the waves, something stops Maddie from going through with her attempt, and she ends up going to Boston to be admitted into the hospital where she trained as a nurse.