SPOLER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched Monday’s episode of Fox’s “9-1-1,” titled “Home Invasion.”

Following a very rough road as of late, “9-1-1” had Maddie Buckley (Jennifer Love Hewitt) firmly in control of her life again this week and making moves that Hewitt didn’t think her character would be capable of in the early days of the Fox first-responder drama.

With Variety, Hewitt discusses Monday’s installment of the show, which saw Maddie deal with trust issues at home — where she and Chimney grapple with the reality of getting a nanny named Madga for Baby Jee-Yun — and in her home away from home, the 9-1-1 call center — where her new recruit makes the twist choice to feed personal info of people with medical emergencies to robbers, and risk Maddie’s career by using her login for the illegal activity.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is quite the matchmaker — at least when it comes to her 9-1-1 character, Maddie Buckley.

“Back on my first day of 9-1-1, [co-creator Tim Minear] asked me what I wanted to have happen for Maddie, and I said that I wanted her to be with Chimney,” she tells EW of asking for her 9-1-1 dispatcher to pair with Kenneth Choi’s firefighter paramedic. “He was kind of like, ‘Wait, what?'”

But “I just felt like they were two people who were sort of meant to be together,” Hewitt explains. “I was just sort thinking about who Maddie was and where I hoped she was going to go, and I think she was deserving of a Chimney in her life. I think anybody who wants to be in love deserves a really good person like him. I don’t know, it was just a gut feeling. And I didn’t even know Kenny that well. It wasn’t even about personally like, ‘Oh, we have fun off camera.'”

That said, the two actors have certainly grown close over the years — with Choi spending a lot of time with Hewitt and her family on their off time. “They call him Uncle Kenny,” Hewitt says of her husband Brian Hallisay (who has worked with her as Kyle on The Client List and Maddie’s abusive ex, Doug, on 9-1-1) and their three kids. “He’s really a family member to us. I adore him.”

As for their on-screen interactions, “I’m glad that they’ve kind of found their way back together,” Hewitt says of Chimney and Maddie, who separated after the latter’s severe postpartum depression last season but are now giving their relationship another shot. “I do believe that the journey they’ve taken together has been ultimately worth it — and worth it for the audience because it’s been well-earned, their kind of happiness. They seem to be moving kind of step by step into their life together, which is really good.”

I have added a total of 368 high definition screen captures of Jennifer Love Hewitt from the season 6 premiere episode of 9-1-1 to the photo gallery.

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The new season of 9-1-1 premieres tonight! Check out this preview clip of Jennifer Love Hewitt from tonight’s episode below.

The trailer for season 6 of 9-1-1 was just released! Catch the season premiere on Monday, September 19th on FOX!

Back in 1992-1993, Jennifer Love Hewitt played “Bernadette Moody” in the short-lived sitcom Shaky Ground on FOX. After almost 30 years, I have come across 16 episodes of the series out of 17 episodes that aired, and have added a total of 2,300+ screen captures from these episodes into our photo gallery!

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Screen captures of Jennifer Love Hewitt as Sarah in season 5 of Party of Five are now complete! I have added a total of 1,600+ screen captures from episodes 22 through 25 into our photo gallery.

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