The former teen idol channeled the grief from losing her mom Pat to cancer in 2012 into her new Lifetime Christmas film, which also stars her husband Brian Hallisay

How the hell has Jennifer Love Hewitt, known to her Instagram followers as the “Holiday Junkie,” never starred in a Christmas movie until now? At long last, Hewitt debuts her first Lifetime holiday film this week (called,

Jennifer Love Hewitt stars in and directs The Holiday Junkie. We spoke to her about the story's connections to her life and why the project was "kismet."