Jennifer Love Hewitt Has 'No Idea' How Feud Rumors With Sarah Michelle Gellar Even Started
There is no feud, people!
That is what Jennifer Love Hewitt wants everyone to know when it comes to her relationship with Sarah Michelle Gellar in the wake of the I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel release. But the 46-year-old actress seems just as perplexed as everyone else as to how the rumors even began.
Hewitt had to go all the way back to 1997 — yes, 28 years ago — to figure out why people believe they are frenemies.
“I honestly don’t even know what that was or how that all came to be,” she said in a July 18 interview with Vulture. “I just think people don’t want the narrative to be easy. Why do we always have to be against each other and out for each other?”
“I haven’t seen Sarah,” she continued. “Literally, we’ve not talked since I saw her at 18 years old when the first movie came out. That’s why it’s so funny to me. People were like, ‘Say something back.’ And I’m like, ‘What am I going to say? I’ve not seen her.’ On my side, we’re good. I have no idea where this is coming from.”
So, while they aren’t besties, they don’t hate each other either. Hewitt and Gellar went their separate ways in 1997 and lived their lives. There isn’t any bad blood, and even Gellar had to address the situation in a July 16 Instagram post.
“For everyone asking – I never got to see @jenniferlovehewitt, who is fantastic in the movie. I was inside with my kids when the big carpet happened,” Gellar wrote in the comments. “And unfortunately, JLH didn’t come to the after party. If you have ever been to one of these, it’s crazy. I sadly didn’t get pics with most of the cast. But that doesn’t change how amazing I think they all are. Unfortunately, some things happen only in real life and not online.”
This isn’t the first time Gellar has addressed their reported feud — it reared its ugly head in December 2024 after she had an awkward interview with Extra. Fans thought she was dissing Hewitt, but Gellar insisted she didn’t want to reveal any I Know What You Did Last Summer spoilers ahead of filming.
Gellar, who also starred in the 1997 film with Hewitt and her now-husband Freddie Prinze Jr., wasn’t in the sequel because — spoiler alert — her character was killed in the first movie. She’s now busy working on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot for Hulu.
So, let’s call this Hollywood case closed. Hewitt and Gellar might not be Sunday brunch besties, but they are proving that their so-called celebrity feud is nonsense.
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