Is Jennifer Love Hewitt Coming Back to ‘9-1-1’ During Season 5?
usmagazine.comNo more waiting! Jennifer Love Hewitt has been absent from 9-1-1 for months, but fans will soon see her character, Maddie Kendall, again.Maddie disappeared during an October 2021 episode of the Fox series, leaving her and boyfriend Howie “Chimney” Han’s (Kenneth Choi) daughter, Jee-Yun, at the firehouse.
She explained at the time that their child was not safe with her since she was battling postpartum depression.“I’m sure that you are confused, hurt and probably really scared.
I don’t know what to say. You don’t need to go to the police or come looking for me. I’m not in any danger and no one is making me do this,” Maddie told Chimney in a message. “But Jee is not safe with me.
Not now, and maybe — I know that you’re going to take really good care of her. And she’s better off without me. I love you. I love both of you, and I’m really sorry.”Despite fans’ worries that she might be leaving the show, Hewitt, 43, teased in January that her character would be back during season 5, which returns from hiatus on Monday, March 21. “Oh Maddie how I have missed you,” she captioned a set of Instagram selfies. “Since you’ve been gone we both have changed.
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