Jennifer Love Hewitt will be appearing in the upcoming PBS documentary Betty White: First Lady of Television

Jennifer Love Hewitt is joining Fox's first responder drama, 9-1-1, in the show's upcoming second season, but the actress will also be appearing in the upcoming PBS documentary Betty White: First Lady of Television, and she couldn't help but gush about her enviable friendship with the Golden Girls icon.

"As a kid I watched everything Betty White was in and my grandmother and I watched Golden Girls constantly," she recalled. "In like, big, significant times in my life, like, after breakups or after losing a family member... what brought my spirit back was watching Betty on Golden Girls. Then I got to meet her and then we became friends and we drank too much vodka and then she gave me gummy bears and we snuggled. She cheats at Scrabble, it’s beautiful. Yeah, I’m a lucky girl."

"As a kid I watched everything Betty White was in and my grandmother and I watched Golden Girls constantly," she recalled. "In like, big, significant times in my life, like, after breakups or after losing a family member... what brought my spirit back was watching Betty on Golden Girls. Then I got to meet her and then we became friends and we drank too much vodka and then she gave me gummy bears and we snuggled. She cheats at Scrabble, it’s beautiful. Yeah, I’m a lucky girl."

In fact, Hewitt said "one of the drunkest times in my life" was at a dinner with White. "I almost went into the bushes," she said with a laugh. "And then I was like, you can’t go into the bushes. You have to watch that. Betty White doesn’t go into the bushes. We were, like, stumbling down the street after, like, some casual dinner. It was hysterical."

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