attack on women's health like this in the last 40 years. >> also, jennifer love hewitt's racy new role, a sultry suburban mom. tonight she talks love, fame, her figure and her scandalous billboards. plus anyone for tennis? serena williams like you've never seen her before in the olympics, her emotions, her men, and heartbreak. >> i think that's tough to be in love, and then it, you know, it might not work out. and that's life. >> and talking of heartbreak, only in america special, serena and i hit the court with the wimbledon champ in for a bit of a nasty surprise. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. our big story the race for the white house kicks off probably tomorrow when president obama's re-election campaign launches in ohio. it's a crucial battleground state for him and mitt romney. social issues are front and center in the fight and tonight we have the feisty cynthia nixon as she slams romney on same-sex marriage and abortion. but she also has strong words for the president. also risky business for jennifer love hewitt. "the client list" offering more than the odd massage to making ends meet. we'll ask her about that controversial role and the uproar over a certain poster campaign. >> living in l.a. for a really long time i thought the idea was always to have bigger boobs. >> yes! >> not smaller. it's quite shocking. >> and then match point, serena williams, my candid interview from a spectacular court inside grand central terminal. we talk tennis, her temper, and why she claims she'll never date again. then, it's game on in a match that serena may want to forget. >> yes! oh, yes! cynthia nixon is best known for her role as miranda holmes on "sex and the city." but earlier this week she received a tony nomination for her role on broadway. congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> you haven't had a few awards. two emmys, two s.a.g.s, a grammy, now a tony maybe heading your way. >> i have one from before. >> you do? >> yes, i have one from before. yeah. >> anything you haven't won? >> no oscar. no heisman. >> it's a great role that you play in "win." it's incredibly powerful role. onstage you're completely bold, you play a cancer victim who dies. you're naked onstage. it's very raw, and visceral, isn't it? and the parallel with your life and your family, in fact, because you're a mother three times. >> three times. but she's still with us. almost 82. >> amazing. you had this battle with cancer in 2006. tell me how much of your battle with it did you bring to the role? does it actually work like that? >> it can work like that. but very to say that my -- you know you call it a battle with cancer. to me that seems such a big word. i mean, i feel like i had a cancer diagnosis. i had a very small operation. i went through some radiation, and then i was on a particular pill for five years. to me it's not a battle. to me it was like a medical bump in the road that is not fun, you know, but you kind of grit your teeth and you get through it. >> scary, though. >> it's scary. but having had my mother go through it, you know, at that point a couple of times previous, and i saw how well she dealt with it. no, to me, i didn't, other than my experience of being in the hospital, i didn't draw on anything. i really up know i had some friends who've died of cancer and i've had some friends who died of aids. so i called on those things much more, and also strangely childbirth. >> really? >> there is a point later on in the play where my character vivian is in incredible, incredible pain and my only experience of being in incredible pain was childbirth. >> "the new york times" described your performance as large and lucid and delicate. great phrase, i thought. >> yeah. >> you must be very proud of the plaudits you're getting now that the tony nomination. >> yes, i mean it's an amazing role. to be given. and it's such a big canvas as an actor to paint on. and also, but you get through it -- you know, she has so much time onstage where she's hilariously funny. like, bringing down the house kind of laughs. and so, even though it takes an enormous amount of energy and focus, you get fed so much by that audience response. it really -- it energizes you. >> talking of energizing things you've been quite active on the political front. play a little clip from a promotional ad you've done for president obama. >> 2011, times were tough. recession. joblessness. so many of us struggling to make ends meet. but for women, times were about to get a lot tougher. >> the time has come to deny any and all federal funding to planned parenthood of america. >> support of the amendment to remove taxpayer dollars from planned parenthood. >> we remember who turned their backs on us, and who voted to keep us healthy. november is just around the corner. soon, it will be our turn to vote. >> i mean a pretty clear message from that was, look, you know, if you're a woman, and you're thinking you're going to vote in november you should be voting for president obama, not the republicans. >> absolutely. certainly not mitt romney. certainly not mitt romney. >> you think he's anti-women, mitt romney? >> that's a very strong thing to say. but i think he doesn't have a sense of -- of women's health, and i think particularly women living in poverty, about how difficult it is to have access to not just contraceptive health care but general health care. and i think that president obama said recently, he said women aren't a special interest group, they're more than half of the population. and it's not like women are children. you know. women are half the population, and they know how to take care of themselves if they're only given access to health care. we shouldn't be making these decisions for them, we should let women make their decisions for themselves. >> right. i mean, were you a bit staggered like many people by the way the republican race went in rhetoric about women's issues? >> absolutely. i don't think we've seen an attack on women's health like this in the last 40 years. yeah, i mean, i think these people certainly are -- they're -- we know they're anti-abortion, but they're also anti-contraception. but i think this attack on planned parenthood, you know about 3% of what planned parenthood does is abortions. 97% is women's health. and like right now in texas, rick perry is trying to shut down and stop all federal funding to planned parenthood. well, 40% of the women living in poverty in texas are served by planned parenthood. that is their primary doctor. so what you're saying then, if you cut all this funding, half of the poor women living in texas have no medical care. >> being dispassionate, has barack obama done enough for women's health issues? i mean, it's obvious the republicans have taken a rather strange look at this. but has he done enough as president? >> you know, there are certain issues on which we can never do enough. >> what would you like to see him being bold? if he's re-elected where do you want to see a bit more grit? >> well, i certainly would like to see a bit more grit in terms of gay issues, in terms of lgbt issues. i had certainly, he had said repeatedly that he'll repeal the defense of marriage act and i think that that is something whose time has come. that is overdue. >> do you think it would be quite nice to see the president now with eight states legalizing gay marriage, given the clear bandwagon heading that way, quite a moment for the president of the united states to stand there and say, i support gay marriage. do you think he's going to do that? >> i don't know if he's going to do that. and that would be certainly an amazing thing if he would do that. and i would applaud and i think people all over this country would applaud. but, the thing that i really want from him is the repeal of the defense of marriage act which he has said is unconstitutional. and i think that that is something that is very in his control, and that's -- that's, for me, that's his task. >> you are engaged to be married. >> yes. >> now you were with the man for a long time. >> for 15 years. we have two children together. >> yes. and now you're going to be marrying a woman. >> yes. >> that's great interest as you'd expect. you said this which i thought was fascinating. the fight for gay marriage is often portrayed in political terms, democrat versus republican, liberal versus conservative, but for couples like us, this is about something simpler and more personal. i want to be married to my girlfriend. i want us to have a ceremony. i want all our friends and family to come. i want our kids to be there just like that historic night last march, i want it to be a moment i will always remember till death do us part. i like that. >> thank you. >> it kind of took all of the politics and the stigma away from it and said i just want to do what other people do. >> certainly it is a political issue. but, when you break down why gay people want to get married to each other, they want to get married for the same reasons that anybody wants to get married. they want to celebrate their love. they want to make a lifelong commitment. they want to gather their friends and family around them, and say this is the person i'm going to be with us for the rest of my life. >> how have you found all the scrutiny on your life? because you've been, i think, quite brave in the stuff that you've said. >> it's not been so bad. >> you've caught a little bit of flak but a lot of praise, too. it's one of those things, isn't it, where you put your head over the parapet, did you expect what was coming your way? >> you know, when news of christine's and my relationship broke there was this tremendous, you know, we were on the cover of two new york daily newspapers. she had, her parents who live on a little island off of seattle had british journalists and suvs on their lawn. i mean, it was -- it was a wild explosion. but, there was not really too much to say, and so it sort of came and went pretty quickly. it -- the flame burned very high, and then it pretty much, been kind of a slow ember since then. >> when you look at the debate, and i've had a lot of people in here, we've had kirk cameron famously came in here and said some pretty outrageous things i felt, using christianity as an excuse, how do you wrestle with people who've got religious convictions about it? >> well, you know, i think that the thing is that gay people, that there are a lot of myths about gay people. that they're sick, or they're -- they prey on children, or they're harmful to children or they're causing the destruction of traditional, straight marriage. and i think, as people personally and on television and all these reading the newspaper come to see more and more gay families, and gay couples, i think that these myths are disappearing one by one, which is great. and now we have a whole generation of children, you know, they say that there are 2 million children living in the united states who have been raised by gay couples. >> i had one of the leading, zack wolf came in who is an extraordinary young man and he had both his mums sitting in the audience, which i thought was great. as he said, kim kardashian's marriage lasted, i don't know, however many hours it was and he listed a whole lot in his book, i thought it was a smart point to make. >> yes. >> that actually it's respecting the sanctity of marriage is much more important i think. are you as happy as you've ever been? >> i am definitely as happy as i've ever been. happier than i've ever been, so yeah. >> life is pretty good for you? >> life is pretty good. >> i can't let you go without a quick mention of "sex and the city." let's take a little watch of you in action. this is great. >> so this is a big apartment to buy for just you. >> i have a lot of shoes. >> oh. maybe the boyfriend will move in? >> no, no boyfriend. just me. >> i have a son who owns his own business. >> no thanks. i'll take it. >> i love that character. >> yeah. she's great. >> have you seen girls? >> i haven't. but i want to very much. it sounds amazing. >> everyjuan says it's the new "sex and the city." it's getting attraction. >> it sounds amazing. >> what do you think sex and the city gave american women? what would you like its legacy to be to american women, do you think? >> i think that sex and the city showed that it was okay to be single. even if you were in your 30s. even if you were in your 40s. even if you were going to be single for the rest of your life, that that didn't mean you were sitting at home pining by the phone, hoping that somebody would call, that you could have a rich, full life. you could have a rich, full, sex life. you could have fun and adventures and work and great friends, and just because you didn't have a ring on your finger didn't mean that you weren't happy. >> and are you living proof that it can all come crashing to glorious utopia. >> yes, yes. >> star of broadway. blissfully happy in your life. the tony awards are on june the 10th 2012. it's been a real pleasure. >> for me, too. >> i hope you win. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> coming up my interview with the woman who is hitting up "the client list" jennifer love hewitt. a party? 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[ female announcer ] new ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat. twenty-one vitamins and minerals. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach. refreshing nutrition in charge! so, six months? >> yeah. >> so we can spend pretty much every minute together? >> right. see, exactly. >> i can fall even more in love with you. >> you could. >> yeah, and then it'll hurt that much more when you leave. >> jennifer love hewitt. taking hollywood by storm in the '90s when she joined the beloved cast of "party of five." since then she's been working consistently in movies and television and starring in what i have to admit is my guilty pleasure lifetime's "the client list." welcome. >> thank you. >> who would have thought that fresh faced little girl would become my guilty pleasure. >> i'm happy to be your guilty pleasure. >> i watched the movie, which i didn't realize was entirely your creation. >> it was. >> you came up with it, you produced the thing. starred in it. >> it's been almost six years since i sort of, you know, started coming up with the idea and my manager and i and it's just been great to sort of see it unfold. it's great. >> what was the concept? i know obviously what you do in the movie was, now the series. why did you want to do this? >> there were a lot of articles being written about, you know, single moms sort of economic hardship, and sort of how they were supporting their families, and the idea that a lot of women were having to help their husbands make money for the family and everything, and so we just thought it would be a really interesting idea for sort of an ex-beauty queen in texas with these two kids to sort of find herself in this situation and people liked it so far. >> who likes it? is it watched more by men or women? >> it's pretty even, actually. i mean, we've been able to get a lot of guys to come and watch lifetime, which is nice. i'm excited about that. but you know, women love it because it's very oddly empowering for them. and there's lots of abs on the show. they're really enjoying that part of it. >> it comes at a time when there's this book "fifty shades of grey" which every woman is reading this thing. >> yes. >> and you know about this phenomenon. >> i just got my copy. i haven't read it yet. >> the premise seems to be that women get more turned on by the written word. >> yes. >> and men are more turned on by the visual. >> yes. >> is that basically what this is all about? >> yes, i think so. i think that we like to hear things. we like, even in conversation, we like, if we ask you how your day is, we want a long, hour-long example of how your day was. men are like, how was your day, great? are you wearing a bra? fantastic. you know what i mean? that is how we work. so i think the "fifty shades of grey" thing is it's a real turn john to have the sexy words. >> you gave me a brilliant way in to the next part of this interview which is your recent appearance on jimmy kimmel because to tee this up, the promotional material for client list to put it mildly was a bit eye-popping >> yes. >> so eye-popping that they had to remove the original posters because too many cars were crashing with men all over america driving straight into lamp posts, and replaced it with a more measured poster. >> yes. >> jimmy kimmel decided to save a particular piece of the original for you. a little treasure. let's watch this. >> i feel like i'm going to be a little sad now when they take them down. it's been nice to be on billboards. >> we were all sad about it. they took the big one down across the street. >> i know. so soon. >> we're considering filing suit actually. i have a little surprise for you. >> what is it? >> we saw that they were taking it down. >> okay. >> and were able to -- guillermo come on in here. were able to actually take one part of the -- we were able to get one square. >> no! so there's -- i don't know if you want to -- >> no. >> don't know if you want this for your home. >> that was brilliant television. >> it was great. >> it also gave some idea of the sheer gigantic scale of that poster. >> i mean, massive. there was nothing more terrifying in my whole life than turning around and seeing them look like that. >> we have actually lined up the two posters here. so let's have a look at what all the fuss was about. i couldn't really see what was wrong with the original one on the left. the one on the right is just a little bit, well, a little bit boring by comparison. >> i think so. i think so. i mean, you know, living in l.a. for a really long time i thought the idea was always to have bigger boobs, not smaller. >> yes! >> it's very shocking to know -- and to not know who was messing around with them for me has been really odd. >> who did that? >> what person decided you know what? those need to be smaller so i'm just going to -- >> you were the first actress in hollywood to have a boob reduction. >> i know. >> without any involvement. >> it's very strange. but i did keep the poster from jimmy. they're in my home. >> you must have a big house. where have you put them? >> i haven't decided exactly where they're going to go yet. >> now your middle name really is love. >> yes. >> apparently your friends and fan family all call you love. >> they do. >> when we come back, i want to talk to you about love. >> okay. >> because you have a checkered relationship with love. >> yes. >> do you think true love is out there, jennifer? >> i think so. >> waiting to lure your in. >> at some point, hopefully. >> let's discuss after the break. >> okay. zap technology. arrival. with hertz gold plus rewards, you skip the counters, the lines, and the paperwork. zap. it's our fastest and easiest way to get you into your car. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. 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