Love's Psycho Stalker Pleads Guilty

Tue., Sep. 30, 2003 9:30 AM PDT by

Jennifer Love Hewitt knows what you did last summer. But one disturbed San Diego woman believes Hewitt also knows what the woman did last month, last week and five minutes ago.

The 47-year-old from suburban La Mesa pleaded guilty on Monday to stalking the former Party of Five thesp, claiming that Hewitt could read her mind and planned to hurt her, according to prosecutors.

(That's one story line the Salingers never had to confront.)

Diagnosed as delusional, Diana Napolis was nonetheless found competent to stand trial after she spent five months in a state psychiatric facility.

By pleading guilty to felony stalking, prosecutors dropped five other charges against Napolis. She could face up to three years in prison at next month's sentencing.

Napolis' first threat against the actress-singer (she's big in Japan) came outside a San Diego radio station last year. The pestering continued in Los Angeles and by email between July 29 and November 3, said Deputy District Attorney Fiona Khalil.

"She believed that Ms. Love Hewitt was part of a group that targeted her with so-called psychotronic technology," Khalil said. "Due to this technology [Napolis believed] they were able to tell what she was thinking."

Texas-born Hewitt began performing at age 3 and was still just a tot when she starred in Kids Incorporated. She got her big break in 1995 with Fox's Party of Five as Bailey's girlfriend Sarah Reeves Merrin but failed to lure viewers to the spinoff series, Time of Your Life. Hewitt had more luck with a string of teen hits, including 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and Can't Hardly Wait. But more recent films like The Tuxedo and Heartbreakers have fizzled at the box office.

Next up, the 24-year-old actress will star in the feature film adaptation of Garfield opposite Breckin Meyer, as Jon Arbuckle, and Bill Murray, who lends his voice to the CGI fat cat. The movie ambles in to theaters June 18, 2004.

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