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Hayden Panettiere is opening up about how she spent years secretly battling addictions to opioids and alcohol. "I was on top of the world and I ruined it," the former "Nashville" star revealed for the first time in the new issue of People magazine. "I’d think I hit rock bottom, but then there’s that trap door that opens." The 32-year-old became a star when she was just 11 years old, appearing in soap operas and the 2000 sports drama "Remember the Titans" opposite Denzel Washington.
At age 15, the actress claimed someone from her team began offering her "happy pills" before she would walk the red carpets. "They were to make me peppy during interviews," Panettiere recalled. "I had no idea that this was not an appropriate thing, or what door that would open for me when it came to my addiction." Hayden Panettiere says she struggled with addiction and postpartum depression.
(Photo by Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic) Panettiere noted that as her career skyrocketed, she was drinking and occasionally taking opioids. "… As I got older, the drugs and alcohol became something I almost couldn’t live without," she admitted. In 2014, Panettiere took on the role of troubled country singer Juliette Barnes in "Nashville." Her real-life pregnancy was even written into the show, but behind closed doors, the star was struggling.
"Those were really tough years," said Panettiere, adding that in 2014, she suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter Kaya, whom she shares with ex-fiance Wladimir Klitschko. "I could relate to a lot of those storylines like the alcoholism and postpartum depression.They hit close to home." Hayden Panettiere found fame as a child star in soap operas. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via
.Denzel Washington honoured a sports hero.
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Hayden Panettiere opened up about her relationship with 7-year-old daughter Kaya in a recent interview. Panettiere, 32, revealed that her relationship with Kaya is much better following her decision to have her live with Wladimir Klitschko, the actress' ex and daughter's father. The decision came as the "Nashville" actress battled an addiction to alcohol and pills.
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in projects like Remember the Titans and Heroes. She also had a notable role in Wes Craven’s Scream 4, and she’s expected to reprise her role as Kirby Reed in an upcoming slasher sequel. But ahead of Scream 6, Panettiere is opening up about her addiction issues for the first time with the public.
Remember the Titans (2000) and Raising Helen (2004), just opened up about her opioid and alcohol addiction, which went on for years. “I was doing anything to make me feel happy for a moment,” she said in an exclusive interview with . "Then I'd feel worse than I did before. I was in a cycle of self-destruction."Her addiction, she said, began when she was a teenager but spiraled out of control after she suffered from following the birth of her daughter Kaya, now 7.
Zack Sharf Hayden Panettiere opened up to People magazine about her years-long addiction to opioids and alcohol, revealing a member of her team gave her “happy pills” before red carpets when she was only 15 years old. The actor’s addiction worsened from there.“They were to make me peppy during interviews,” Panettiere said of the pills she was told to take as a teenager. “I had no idea that this was not an appropriate thing, or what door that would open for me when it came to my addiction.”Panettiere gained success as a child with roles in soap operas and Disney’s popular football drama “Remember the Titans” with Denzel Washington.
People recently. “I’d think I hit rock bottom, but then there’s that trap door that opens.”Panettiere shares a daughter, Kaya, 7, with her ex Wladimir Klitschko, a Ukrainian boxer, and sought help for her health battles for the sake of her family after years of public drama.“I put a lot of work into myself and I had to be willing to be incredibly honest,” she divulged.The “Nashville” alum attended both trauma therapy and inpatient treatment within the last year to help her heal. She’s even set to make a career comeback with “Scream 6,” portraying her character from the teen horror franchise, Kirby Reed.
Hayden Panettiere, largely absent from public view since Nashville ended in 2018, says she has struggled with alcoholism and postpartum depression in the years since the series went off the air.
Hayden Panettiere is opening up about a secret battle with addiction she’s struggled with for years.
Sharing her story. Hayden Panettiere is reflecting on being caught in a “cycle of self-destruction” due to her struggles with addiction.
Hayden Panettiere is speaking out about her secret struggle with opioids and alcohol addiction. The 32-year-old actress opens up in a new interview with and shares that in the past year she has underwent both trauma therapy and inpatient treatment.«I was on top of the world and I ruined it,» she says, noting that she also suffered from postpartum depression following the birth of her now 7-year-old daughter, Kaya, whom she shares with ex Wladimir Klitschko.
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