Hayden Panettiere’s Chilling Last Message Surfaces, Sparking Heartbreak and Unanswered Questions After Her Sudden Death at 36
“I wasn’t OK,” the actress wrote. “I had to figure out how to bond with her. It felt like an insurmountable task, and I was only on the first day.”
“It wasn’t panic that was sitting in my chest. It was nothing. A total blackout of emotion, like my soul was de*d,” she added.
Months after her daughter’s birth, the Nashville actress began drinking from 6 a.m. in the morning to function
About four months after the grueling labor, she began relying heavily on alcohol
“The first thing I’d thought of when I woke up was alcohol. Not my child, not my job, and not the rest of my life. I needed a drink to function — at 6 a.m.,” she wrote.
Panettiere eventually got help and gave up custody of her daughter to the child’s father and her ex-fiancé, heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.
She said she “desperately” needed help at the time but didn’t want Kaya to feel “abandoned.”
“The idea that anybody would think that I would just give away my child and be okay with it is heartbreaking. Couldn’t be further from the truth,” she said on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast.
“I was struggling with mental health and anxiety and postpartum and having to act my way through it, and just feeling like I completely lost myself,” she added.
After her relationship with Klitschko came to an end, Panettiere began dating on-and-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson in 2018.
He was arrested for domestic violence after an alleged physical altercation and reconnected with her after being released from prison in 2021.
Panettiere’s on-and-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson was once arrested for being in a physical altercation with her
“Man, I mean, I think it speaks for itself…I got arrested for ab*sing her,” Hickerson told TMZ in May this year. “And I wouldn’t blame her friends for being pissed off at me. “So I don’t really have much to say on that.”
He said they have “been together for eight years,” and he’s had “a couple opportunities to apologize” and “reflect” on the incident that landed him in jail.
“You’d have to ask her what she thinks about it, but you know…you never lay hands on a woman. Bottom line,” he added.
During her final months, Panettiere said she was glad she opened up about her life struggles.
“So many people have have come up to me within the industry and outside of the industry and shared their stories with me and said, ‘Because you’ve talked about your mental health, it gave me the courage to be honest about mine and get myself help and you saved my life,’” she said at a book signing in May.
“I was like, ‘This is worth it,’” she added. “I can hopefully leave the world a better place than I found it.”
“I am genuinely so heartbroken,” one fan commented, “Hayden, you carried me through my childhood”
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