But beneath her effervescent public persona, Panettiere has led a tragic life.
Butformer troubled child star Panettiere is all grown up now.
It’s been a rocky road, but if one thing’s for certain, Panettiere is a survivor.
Here are the tragic details about Hayden Panettiere’s life.
On the surface, it may have seemed that Panettiere was living the dream as a TV star.
But her creative work meant that she struggled to identify with her peers.
“For several years school was absolute torture.”
“High school was torture for me,” she said.
“I was pretty much bullied every day because I was an actor …
They used to say to me, ‘You think you’re so hot because you’re an actor.’
It was almost as though I wasn’t allowed to be human.
There were times when I felt absolutely ripped apart.”
However, she said that such adversity ultimately made her stronger and taught her how to stand her ground.
When “Heroes” wrapped, for instance, she found the sudden dearth of job opportunities hurtful.
“The thought of not being successful didn’t occur to me.
Then it hit me like a ton of bricks.”
These days, she is learning to heal from the trauma that came with being a child actor.
“I was four years old when I was on Guiding Light,” she toldPeoplein 2024.
“And I did a bunch of commercials before that.
So taking some time off after ‘Nashville’ was important.
I literally hadn’t taken a break from the industry since I was like, eight months old.”
The photos were plastered on magazines along with body-negative headlines claiming that the star had cellulite.
Extremely distraught, she stopped wearing shorts for five years.
Also that year, she was body-shamed following the publication of bikini photos.
“I was so traumatized, I developed an immediate insecurity about it,” she told The Telegraph.
“It gave me such body dysmorphia for so long,” she explained.
“But I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact.
And it has always made me feel better.”
“There was a domestic argument between the mother and father,” Wolf toldPeople.
From what I’m told, he hit her with a closed fist."
After being charged with misdemeanor battery, Alan pleaded no contest but was spared jail.
“It put my dad in this light that is so not him,” she said.
“You know, your mind goes to: ‘He abuses, he beats his wife.’
For my dad to have that reputation now which is so not who he is kills me.”
“Of course, kids are always caught in the middle,” she said.
“They were to make me peppy during interviews,” she told People in 2024.
By her early 20s, her substance misuse worsened, and she began self-medicating with alcohol.
However, she quickly discovered that the feeling of relief was merely fleeting.
Soon, she began taking opiates to deal with chronic neck pain, but she rapidly developed a tolerance.
Their daughter, Kaya, was born that December.
But as Panettiere soon found out, her body wasn’t the only thing that would change.
Accordingly, becoming a mother meant that the star was left with few friends.
“I’ll just say the outcome was slim pickings.”
“Oh, it was horrible,” she told “Good Morning America.”
You want to break down and cry, which makes you look even worse."
“He didn’t want to be around me,” she said.
“I didn’t want to be around me.
But with the opiates and alcohol, I was doing anything to make me feel happy for a moment.
Then I’d feel worse than I did before.
I was in a cycle of self-destruction.”
Klitschko was given custody of Kaya, who was sent to live with her father in his native Ukraine.
“Because of the way that it was done, it was very upsetting,” she said.
“He thought this was funny, and it was horrifying to me …
He didn’t get it, as to me, who saw that’s a trauma reaction.
That’s a cry for help,” she said.
“They are terrified that Brian will once again find himself accused of domestic violence.
Hayden and Brian are very toxic for each other.”
After failing to attend a business meeting, Jansen was found unresponsive in his apartment.
His family later revealed that he died as the result of an enlarged heart.
Hayden was devastated by her brother’s untimely death.
Appearing on"Good Morning America,“she became tearful when discussing the loss.
“He’s uh, right here with me …
Always,” she said, gesturing to her heart.
“His art, that was the thing that made him happiest.”
“They wrote my character as having postpartum depression,” she told Women’s Health in 2023.
“They wrote that she abandoned her child and went to a different country.
And then, ta-da!
It’s done,'” she suggested.
However, since the show was her livelihood, Panettiere felt powerless to speak out against the apparent exploitation.
“It was always about making them happy.”
