Jennifer Love Hewitt says she hasn’t spoken to Sarah Michelle Gellar since she was 18
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Jennifer Love Hewitt says she hasn’t spoken to Sarah Michelle Gellar since she was 18
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar starred in the 1997 film “I Know What You Did Last Summer” Gellar excluded Hewitt from an Instagram Story about the film, sparking feud rumors. Hewitt told Vulture that she hasn’t seen Gellar since she was 18 years old. In the 2025 version, Gellar’s husband Freddie Prinze Jr. stars opposite Hewitt, and the plot advances nearly 30 years after murders wreaked havoc on a small North Carolina town. The pair reprise their roles in the new film, released in theaters July 18.
Jennifer Love Hewitt claims that she hasn’t talked to her former costar Sarah Michelle Gellar in decades, as she dismissed feud rumors between the duo.
The “I Know What You Did Last Summer” star, 46, told Vulture in a story published July 18 that she hasn’t spoken to Gellar, 48, since the pair starred in the 1997 film of the same name.
Feud rumors were sparked when eagle-eyed fans noticed that Gellar excluded Hewitt from an Instagram Story about the film, but the latter said that “I honestly don’t even know what that was or how that all came to be.”
“I haven’t seen Sarah,” Hewitt told Vulture. “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.”
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“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?” Hewitt said, telling the interviewer “I hope so” when it was suggested they may see each other at the film premiere.
The Vulture interview purportedly took place before the “IKWYDLS” premiere on July 14 in Los Angeles.
For her part, Gellar previously dismissed the idea that a rift existed, writing “for everyone asking” in an Instagram comment that “I never got to see @jenniferlovehewitt who is fantastic in the movie. I was inside with my kids when the big carpet happened. And unfortunately JLH didn’t come to the after party.”
In the 2025 version (released in theaters July 18), Gellar’s husband Freddie Prinze Jr. stars opposite Hewitt, and the plot advances nearly 30 years after murders wreaked havoc on the small North Carolina town, as the pair reprise their roles.
Gellar and Prinze, who met while filming the 1997 movie, and Hewitt all became teen idols after the success of the original.
In the new film, new victims (played by Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers and Sarah Pidgeon) are also targeted by a mysterious stalker and seek help from Prinze and Hewitt’s characters.