Jennifer Love Hewitt visited ‘Last Call with Carson Daly’ on Tuesday (December 13), promoting her CBS hit ‘Ghost Whisperer’. The ex-lovers, who split under bad terms, exchanged several remarks related to their romance and who’s fault it was that it ended. Love Hewitt said to close the interview: “Can we just say that, for the time being, no matter what happened, I was a really good girlfriend to you and you were a great boyfriend, and
that…” Carson then interrupted, “The latter is so true. The first part is definitely true, but…” She then said, “We had a lot of fun, and it was a good time in our life. So we should end it like that.” Carson, who was dumped via a press release, countered, “It was. It ended a little weird. I got to be honest. A little weird.” Jennifer conceded, “It did, but that doesn’t matter.” For more on their banter, read on for a transcript.
Carson: All right. Are we ready? Are you guys ready to play a little
music for our guests to come out? I don’t know why I have questions. I
don’t know where this is going to go, but here we go. Seven years ago in
new york, our first guest fell victim to the charms of a strapping, young
mtv video jockey. A courtship ensued. His name was kurt loder.
[ Laughter ] Since then, she’s gone on to much bigger and better things,
including starring in the hit cbs show “ghost whisperer.” Here she is,
the lovely jennifer love hewitt. Love?
[ Cheers and applause ]
Carson: How are you? Thanks for being here. My hands are freezing.
Jennifer: How are you?
Carson: You look fantastic. You look great.
Jennifer: Thanks, so do you.
Carson: It’s great to have you here.
Jennifer: Thanks. Congratulations on your baby.
Carson: Thank you, thank you. I’m very excited. I’ve had a lot of time
to think about you being here, and I’ve had a chance to go through some
things. And I think I just want to start here, and I don’t want it to be
weird for you. But I think it’s important that I say this. I think it’s
about time we start seeing other people.
[ Laughter ] I don’t know how you feel, but i just feel like the time’s
right.
Jennifer: Really? Really?
Carson: Yeah.
Jennifer: Okay.
Carson: Like, if you want to jaunt off on your own, I’m cool with that.
Jennifer: Okay.
Carson: Just want you to know.
Jennifer: I really appreciate that.
Carson: Do you?
Jennifer: Yeah.
Carson: You’re cool with that?
Jennifer: Yeah.
Carson: You’re not gonna fight me on it?
Jennifer: No, I’m not.
Carson: Okay, good.
[ Laughter ]
Jennifer: I’m not.
Carson: It’s been a long time.
Jennifer: How are you doing?
Carson: I’m doing good. How are you?
Jennifer: Good.
Carson: You look great.
Jennifer: Thanks.
[ Laughter ] You, too.
Carson: Thanks.
Jennifer: Last time I was on your show, interesting things happened.
Carson: That’s right. When was the last time you were on? Was that the
first time I met you?
Jennifer: Yeah. You said seven years ago. It was ten years ago. So not
a lot’s changed with you, as I can see.
[ Audience oohs ]
[ Laughter ]
Carson: Do we have the guest ejector seat set up? Whoo! When was the
first time? You came on, and that’s when I met you. And that’s when you
fell in love with me, right? At the mtv show?
[ Laughter ]
Jennifer: Yeah.
Carson: Is that what happened?
Jennifer: Pretty much instantly.
Carson: Yeah, that was fun.
Jennifer: Uh-huh.
Carson: Well, it was like when you and I were, you know, going steady
and hanging out a lot.
Jennifer: Steady?
[ Light laughter ]
Carson: I knew — I gave you my lettermen’s jacket and you wore it.
Jennifer: Yeah, I was pinned.
Carson: You were pinned.
Jennifer: Uh-huh. Don’t, don’T.
Carson: No, I waited for a good two months.
[ Laughter ]
Jennifer: This is like — this is your life.
Carson: Yeah, it is. It is. You’re a sweetheart to be here.
Jennifer: Yeah.
Carson: Well, let’s just try and get a little catch up here, ’cause
I haven’t really talked to you much since, well — ten years, you said,
now.
Jennifer: Yeah.
Carson: So how’s “party of five”?
[ Laughter ] How’s that? Is that still going?
Jennifer: No, it’s cancelled.
Carson: No, it was? Okay. And then you had the other show –
Jennifer: Cancelled.
Carson: “Time of your life.”
Jennifer: Cancelled.
Carson: Cancelled.
Jennifer: Yeah.
Carson: Wow.
Jennifer: Yeah.
Carson: That didn’t have anything to do with me, though. Right?
Jennifer: A little.
Carson: Okay.
Jennifer: Yeah, emotional breakdown.
Carson: When I — the last image I have of you is that you were doing
so well, and then a couple of these cancellations happened. Was that swallowing
a piece of humble pie there?
Jennifer: It was, yeah. I mean, I think it was — you know, it was interesting
because I was on “party of five,” and the show instantly did well. I joined
in the second year. It was just lovely people, and i instantly was like,
you know, a teenager who had the world at her feet.
Carson: Right.
Jennifer: And then turned 21, and “time of your life” got cancelled.
And suddenly, you know, I was begging people to say hello to me. I was
like, “hello, it’s me. I was on ‘party of five.’” No, it wasn’t that.
Carson: You did. You went from being just, like, uber, uber, uber famous,
especially in the teen crowd.
Jennifer: It has its ups and downs, and I’m really grateful for the
downs, because now I’m on a great show that’s doing, luckily, very, very
well. And I appreciate it more now ’cause I know what it’s like to have
both. I know what it’s like to have something that’s really good and something
that’s heartbreaking, and you just — I’m much more grateful.
Carson: “Ghost whisperer,” when the show came up, how did that happen?
Did you just go audition for a big sitcom? Did you know it was going to
be huge?
Jennifer: They said it was a drama.
Carson: Right. I know it’s a drama.
[ Laughter ] When I see you on — I just laugh. You know, it’s a situational
comedy to see you talking to ghosts.
Jennifer: He’s cute.
Carson: It’s hilarious. I’m like, “I know her. She can’t really talk
to ghosts.”
Jennifer: I can. [popdirt.com]
Carson: No, you can’T.
Jennifer: No, I can’T.
Carson: Cats, yes, but not ghosts.
Jennifer: Cats?
Carson: Yeah, well –
Jennifer: “Garfield”?
Carson: Yes.
Jennifer: Oh, got it.
Carson: Inside joke.
[ Laughter ] We’ll edit that out. Don’t worry.
Jennifer: He’s a lobster.
Carson: Oh, really? You’re gonna go there? Where’s my list of stuff?
You want some real talk? Can we just cut the show here?
Jennifer: Yes. How’s your tattoo?
Carson: Oh, yeah, the tattoo.
[ Catcalls from audience ]
Jennifer: I’m bringing it all.
Carson: Wow, you really are.
Jennifer: I’m just playing.
Carson: You know what’s a funny story is, I called when I was shooting
the beach house stuff. Do you know when I called you, and I’d had — I
don’t know if you know this about me. I have an occasional beer. I want
to be honest.
Jennifer: Really? I had no idea.
[ Light laughter ]
Carson: I like — I’m irish. Joe knows what I’m saying. But I called
you and I told you that I had tattooed your name on me. And what was your
reaction? Do you remember when I told you on the phone?
Jennifer: I don’t think I was that happy about it.
Carson: I don’t remember your reaction, but the truth was I hadn’t –
[ Laughter ] I actually, when I told you that, I hadn’t gotten it yet.
Jennifer: Really?
Carson: Yeah.
Jennifer: Why did you lie?
Carson: And then — well, ’cause I wanted to gauge how you would feel.
Jennifer: Right. But I just didn’t like it because you were hurting
yourself.
Carson: Well, so then –
Jennifer: Right, this thing happened.
Carson: Right. You went and — whatever.
Jennifer: Things happened.
Carson: And then, here’s — can we get a shot of this? Have you seen
this?
Jennifer: No.
Carson: That’s where your name was.
[ Laughter ] And I did it once, but there was no way on god’s green
earth I was gonna write the word “tara” anywhere, anywhere on my body.
Jennifer: I have “tara” on me, though, which is weird. I’m kidding.
[ Laughter ] I’m kidding. It’s a crab now.
Carson: Yeah, it’s the crab coming out of a pocketknife.
Jennifer: That’s interesting.
Carson: Yeah.
Jennifer: Thank you for that.
Carson: Would you ever get — are you in love now? Do you have a steady
boyfriend?
Jennifer: No.
Carson: No? Is that difficult for you, after me?
[ Laughter ] I’m saying — it’s tough.
Jennifer: You know, it has been difficult.
[ Cheers and applause ] It has been difficult.
Carson: Where do you go? You know, where do you go?
Jennifer: It has. You?
Carson: Yeah, well, you know, here we are. We’re going to take a break,
I think.
[ Laughter ] We’re way over time. We thought it would be fun, though,
to take a — and you were nice enough to do this. We took a compatibility
–
Jennifer: Yeah.
Carson: A real test to see what, you know, like “cosmopolitan” would
think about our — so we’ll take a break now. Joe, you need to just settle
down.
[ Laughter ] And we’ll come back. More with jennifer love hewitt after
this. And the music tonight is spoon. That’s joe firstman. Joe, get me
out of this.
Jennifer: All right!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Carson: Do you remember that? Did you see that?
Jennifer: That was embarrassing.
Carson: That was a scene from the hit cbs drama “ghost whisperer.”
[ Light laughter ] Where jennifer love hewitt talks to the deceased.
Jennifer: No, it wasn’T. [popdirt.com]
Carson: Do you want to comment on that? You don’t have to. It was called
–
Jennifer: “Dance workout with barbie.”
Carson: Yeah, that’s what that was.
[ Laughter ] How old were you when you did that? Was that your first
gig in hollywood?
Jennifer: No, I was 12. I was just getting my boobies.
[ Laughter ] Personal comment.
Carson: Really? You had –
Jennifer: Yeah, see?
Carson: Yes.
Jennifer: Yeah.
Carson: And they just kept on gettin’ and gettin’ and gettin’ and gettin’
and –
Jennifer: All right. Okay.
Carson: The show is “ghost whisperer.”
[ Laughter ] It’s on cbs. And for those who haven’t seen it, and we
have a lot of — we’re on late at night. If there’s, perhaps, somebody
watching who hasn’t seen it, what would you say about the show that might
get, like, a guy that has a bong in his mouth right now to watch your show?
[ Laughter ] It’s not just about talking to dead people. You play –
you’re married in the show.
Jennifer: I do. I play a newlywed. I play an antique store owner. Neither
one of those is gonna get that guy.
Carson: Right.
Jennifer: I wear tiny tops.
Carson: Okay, there you go. Now we’re on to something. You know this
clip we’re about to show?
Jennifer: I don’T.
Carson: No? Well, I don’t think it’s important. I think –
[ Light laughter ]
Jennifer: Thank you.
Carson: I think it’s you in, maybe, a trunk of a car, if I’m not mistaken.
Jennifer: Oh, yes, yes, yes. I do know what this is about. There’s a
woman getting married, and I’m talking about how I don’t want to know what
kind of women my husband’s dated before me.
Carson: That’s funny.
[ Laughter ] Here’s love hewitt in “ghost whisperer.”
Jennifer: So mark has no idea his fiancee is being haunted by his late
wife?
Jennifer: No. No, she doesn’t want to tell him.
Jennifer: Well, she’s gonna have to tell him eventually or you’re gonna
have to get the ghost to cross over before the wedding.
Jennifer: I don’t know if I can. I can’t make a spirit go if they don’t
want to go.
Jennifer: Man. Lisa is bummin’.
Jennifer: The last she wants is mark thinking about serena on their
wedding day. You know, she just wants to start with a clean slate.
Jennifer: Yeah, but you never start with a clean slate. I mean, people
always make comparisons to past relationships.
Jennifer: Yeah, I know. But that’s not something you want thrown in
your face.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Carson: Oh, today they did? We thought it would be fun, and we have
to do this very quickly now. ‘Cause love is just a chatterbox. I got to
get spoon out here to perform, but we thought it would be fun to do this
–
Jennifer: Do I talk too much? [popdirt.com]
Carson: No, not at all. I’m a babbling fool, clearly. We wanted to do
the compatibility quiz. You answered questions before the show. Honestly,
I hope. I did the same. There was a few here that we didn’t get to that
I’ll ask you now, and then we have the results which we’ll get to in a
second. On a scale of one to ten, how –
Jennifer: You’re gonna ask them out loud?
Carson: Yeah, sure.
Jennifer: That’s not fair.
Carson: No one’s watching.
[ Laughter ]
Jennifer: Let me just fill them out. I don’t want to answer them out
loud.
Carson: Well, look. Look, here are my answers. It says, “how important
are the following?”
Jennifer: We’ll be right with you.
Carson: The one being the least, ten being the most. On those things.
Jennifer: All right.
Carson: You don’t want to answer? Okay, then write them down.
Jennifer: Okay.
Carson: Then write them down.
[ Light laughter ] How’s your mom?
Jennifer: She’s great, thanks. Yours?
Carson: Very good, thanks.
Jennifer: Okay, perfect. Oh, did you — oh, ooh.
Carson: Well, don’t cheat on mine.
Jennifer: I’m not cheating.
Carson: All right.
Jennifer: Okay. Sorry.
Carson: Well, I’m just gonna add this in. Oh, really, false? That’s
awful.
Jennifer: There’s a reason.
Carson: Yeah. Well, it all makes sense now.
[ Audience aws ] Do we have the results? Jamie, do you have those? Can
I get a little drum roll, here? How many questions did we answer in real
life? [popdirt.com]
Jennifer: 15.
Carson: 15.
Jennifer: I think.
Carson: We answered 15 legitimate questions for a compatibility test.
I blame the breakup on you. You break it up — you blame it on me. So this
is — the answer is — we are 92% compatible.
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ] Well, maybe you’ll get it right next time. You
know? I should say, I took the took the same exact quiz last night, and
it said my soul mate was aeon flux, so –
[ Light laughter ]
Jennifer: But can we just say one thing, though?
Carson: Yeah.
Jennifer: Can we just say that, for the time being, no matter what happened,
I was a really good girlfriend to you and you were a great boyfriend, and
that –
Carson: The latter is so true. [popdirt.com]
[ Light laughter ] The first part is definitely true, but –
Jennifer: We had a lot of fun, and it was a good time in our life. So
we should end it like that.
Carson: It was. It ended a little weird. I got to be honest. A little
weird.
Jennifer: It did, but that doesn’t matter.
Carson: A little weird.
Jennifer: It doesn’t matter.
Carson: Well, all right. It doesn’t matter.
[ Laughter ] It doesn’t — this is what it was like. Check. It doesn’t
matter.
[ Laughter ] But you’re a sweetheart to be here. And you know I love
you. Come here. You know I love you.
Jennifer: All right.
Carson: Jennifer love hewitt, everybody. “Ghost whisperer” is the show.
[ Cheers and applause ] It’s on cbs, on friday nights at 8:00. 8:00.