How to I access my .env variables from a vitest test?

I am trying to migrate my tests from jest to vitest. I have a test suite that uses the dotenv package to pull in my .env variables.

I have this in my test suite

beforeAll(async () => {
        vi.clearAllMocks();
        cleanUpMetadata();
        dotenv.config();
        controller = new UserController(container.get<UserServiceLocator>(Symbol.for("UserServiceLocator")),
            container.get<EmailServiceLocator>(Symbol.for("EmailServiceLocator")));
    });

and this is the code in the test that has the undefined variable

let requestObj = httpMocks.createRequest({
            cookies: {
                token: jwt.sign({ username: "testusername" }, process.env.JWT_SECRET_KEY!)
            }
        });

Is there something special to vitest that i have to do in order to get my .env variables to be accessible?