. >> mark darcy played by colin firth was killed off.wards to bridgette after he dies with the children. that is a ridiculous plot line. i want to go on line saying you have to have colin firth in bridgette jones. >> do you remember when she ran down her street in her underwear chasing him? i'm into the whole thing. >> i know you are. >> please. >> anyway -- i know a lot of people are bummed out. you got to get over things like because there are real problems in the world. you know what i did this weekend, hoda, without taking care of you. i read three books. >> of course you did. >> i read three books. one is "killing jesus" bill o'reilly is on today. a fascinating read. i read elizabeth smart's book. she's coming on next week. it's unbelievable this young woman lived through this ordeal and has emerged from it with such grace. >> yeah. >> she is the picture of grace. it's amazing. the other is anne croft's new book. it's called "wounded by god's people." >> you read three books? >> i was on fire. i love to read and i really wanted to r

i had to call up colin firth himself and tell him -- >> you asked mr. darcy? >> he was dead.did have to ask him if he was sitting down and had someone with him. >> did he? >> yes. >> so to that end, you wanted to give an opportunity for bridget as a single mother -- she is older and has children. but why not just get a divorce? please, you could have kept him alive. >> but mark darcy, even though he was wearing a reindeer sweater when she met him, is the quintessential gentleman. he's a decent man. and that's why everyone cares about him so much. he would never leave her with two small children. and so, as i said, his memory lives on in the new book. >> one of the things i think many of us have related to and women have related to, this notion that bridget is struggling and in the new book is struggling to be a perfect mom yet struggles to be herself, maintain herself. and living up to the standards that other moms seemingly have created of this perfect image of mom. is that something that you struggled with, as well? >> yeah. i think that they -- the bar is pretty high for w

bridget in the movie version, she was engaged to the dashing human rights lawyer mark darcy played by colin firthroin a widow with two small children. >> the hardest thing was calling up colin to tell him. it was one of the strangest conversations of my life. i had to ask him if he had someone with him and if he was sitting down. it was literally as if someone really had died but then we were laughing because they hadn't. >> did you cry when you had to kill him off? >> i am writing about bridget being older. it's comedy but for me comedy comes out of real things and there's very few people that have got to bridget's age to whom something sad has not happened. it's how you feel you're expected to be and how you actually are, i think this one is about the gap about how you think life ought to turn out and how it actually does turn out and bridget's motto is kbo. keep buggering on. >> reporter: fans will be pleased to discover she is still bridget with a few modern updates. instead of counting calories she counts twitter followers. and instead of an inappropriate relationship with her boss she might