It’s also not the case that having a lot of help or support around you guarantees a path to recovery. Lots of people have a good support system and access to resources like treatment centers etc. but relapses, depression, mental and emotional challenges due to trauma are just not things that can always be “fixed,” even with a lot of help.
If you dig deeper there’s some rumors she was essentially forced to be a high end escort when she was younger.
I’m not saying this is true by any means, but the Epstein stuff and everything who even knows anymore. Always been in the back of my mind. This post below has some info around what I mean
Obviously tinfoil hat/anecdotal but I'm certainly expecting a fuck ton of situations like this to continue to surface about celebrities of our generation in Hollywood and their experiences.
How is this comment so heavily upvoted and awarded? Did anyone even read the post or look at that subreddit? It’s the delusional conspiratorial ramblings of like 5 reddit users. It’s actually disgusting to peddle this bullshit immediately after her death.
Depression is a disease that, like cancer, is always trying to kill us. I've had it for decades. We're always fighting it. Sometimes the fight gets to be to much and the disease kills us. This is so damn sad. She was so young 😓
I'm 2 years younger then her, to say I had a crush when I was watching Heroes is putting it mildly, my girlfriend at the time was a bit jealous. Going to do a rewatch as well, season 1 at least.
Having gone through severe depression, suicidal thoughts and alcohol abuse in my late 20s I can understand some of her struggles, so sad it ended this way for her.
the notification popped up on my phone while I was talking to someone and I just stopped talking and paused for like 30 seconds staring at my phone. My brain couldn't process it..
I was always kinda judgmental of her giving up custody of her kid and her drug addiction etc and then recently saw her do an interview on a podcast and you could just see and hear the pain she has gone through and how much it has affected her. It made me feel bad and reminded me we don't always know what someone is going through and the weight they might be carrying...
I hope she's at peace now. This is really sad news.
Same. I saw it and had to reread. I feel so very badly for her. She had been struggling with alot mentally and possibly physically. I know she was experiencing post-partum depression a while too.
Just looked it up and apparently the person her character was based upon in remember the titans died at the age of 34 from an undetected heart condition.
I gasped so loudly when I read it the first time, to the point my girlfriend was worried something happened to me. This is so insane. The worst part about getting older is seeing the people we grew up with passing away. Especially so young. This is so sad.
Same. I had a crush on her since Remember The Titans. She was a year younger than me. I have always joked with my wife that she was my one and only Hall Pass selection. My wife came in our bedroom last night and shockingly/sadly said "Hayden Panettiere passed away". I was like "...WHAT" My wife had just read her memoir a few weeks ago. 🙁
I just read her book 3 weeks ago, and was appalled at what she’d endured, and the grace and clarity with which she was able to process the exceedingly painful events in her life. The sadness in her voice was palpable but I still had a lot of hope that she’d outlive all of us- firecracker she was.
Rest in peace with your dear brother Jansen, dear Hayden. Nobody deserves the life your mother subjected you to. And to think, after her memoir was published, Hayden’s mom STiILL accused her of being “ungrateful”. When will these stage parents (and all parents) learn that your children don’t owe you a debt of gratitude for their existence, especially if it entailed the horrors that dear Hayden endured. Also, rest in piss all of the agents, PA’s directors, handlers, photogs, tutors, crooked accountants, and anyone else who’s ever exploited a child for financial gain—- we’ve seen , how many times??, how this kind of things ends.
Please read her book. We need to be doing SO much better for our young girls and women- especially the ones in center stage with a million lecherous tentacles reaching out for them- sometimes coming from within their own families..
I also read Christina Applegate’s incredible autobiography, ‘You With the Sad Eyes’ about a week before reading Hayden’s autobiography- and also speaking as a woman who grew up LA in the 80’s/90’s, alongside many beautiful girls, I’d like to state for the record, once and for all, FUCK ANTHONY KIEDIS ALL THE WAY TO HELL I HOPE YOU BURN IN A FLAMING PIT OF THE MISERY YOU’VE VISITED/CONTINUE TO VISIT UPON ULTRA YOUNG, DYNAMIC WOMEN.
Her mom was a soap opera actress who fumbled her own fame and put Hayden through extraordinary torture in order to live vicariously through her. The details were hard to read. After the book was published, Hayden‘s mom lashed out and called her “ungrateful“, took no accountability. Not that it would change anything, but I hope that, now that millions of people are going to read her book who never would have, the terrible, dark underbelly of this business, including stage parenthood, will be further exposed. It feels almost as if, Hayden knew that she was not long for this world, and wanted to tell her story. My hat’s off to her from now until forever. She was a bad ass.
She goes into that with great depth in her book, just another in the series of humiliations she suffered in her short life. The writers on Nashville were so uninspired, that they basically just mirrored her own personal turmoil so that she could suffer it all for the world to see. Ratings were great! I swear, this young woman’s life was the shit that nightmares are made of. PLEASE read her book and tell everybody you know.
This one really makes me so fucking angry. It’s just the millionth example of how girls and women don’t matter for shit in this world. I’m so done. It feels so insurmountable. Let’s be real. If a gorgeous, talented, blonde celebrity suffers abuse like this, then what hope do the rest of us have? We’re all just chum in the water.
I was actually about to go hunt down the Malcom in the Middle episode where she babysits and is 10x smarter than the boys. Let’s watch her separately and give thanks for a dynamic entertainer- gone too soon 🥂
Sounds a lot like the writers on One Tree Hill who also used the actors relationship drama for the plot - notably forcing Sophia Bush and and Chad Michael Murray to act out their relationship while they were going through a painful divorce
I have a theory about that. I've had a bunch of friends in my lifetime pass away. Many of them I have known since we were children. Most of the the ones out of my friend group that passed away always would say things like, I can't see myself growing old or i've never been able to imagine myself in old age. I had one friend that said, I want to be a mom but I cannot see myself. She's like when I think about my future children I can't do it its just nothing. She told me she never even saw herself getting married or having her own family. She did pass away. She was my maid of honor. Passed a month before my wedding.
I didn't know either, I read Matthew Perry's book a couple months before he passed and it was so strange processing all of that after learning so much about him and his struggles. I can see it'll be a harrowing read but it sounds like her story deserves to be heard by as many people as possible.
I haven’t read Hayden’s memoir yet, but it’s been on my TBR list. I think I’m going to move it right to the top now.
I did read Christina Applegate’s book though. As someone who lives with an autoimmune disease, I felt so connected to everything she said. I felt very seen by her own story.
Thank you. Yes. This asshat right here who cries himself to sleep each and every night because he isn’t Mike Patton, then wakes each and every morning to make derivative “art” and bang 18 year olds. Let’s please make him famous for more than his discount ninja dance moves
Just from his Wikipedia article, there's sex with an 14-year old girl and "dating" a 16-year when he was in his mid 20's. There's also a quote from Ione Skye where she mentions his "anger issues". Skye was 17-18 when she dated Keidis. Later he mentions how there were multiple years where he slept with 100's of women and that he would sleep with basically every girl he saw that he thought was pretty. He also talks about not understanding women.
Call it circumstantial evidence but its hard to believe that a heroin addicted rock musician with alleged anger issues and multiple "relationships" with teen agers fucked literally 100's of women and it was all good and fine.
The worst thing about Keidis is he didn't know the girl was 14 when they had sex. But then he had sex with her again after finding out. How has he not been arrested when he admitted this?! Cunt.
I am entirely ignorant of who Christina Applegate is, what exactly did he do to her? I can venture some guesses based on song lyrics, and I'll go out on a limb and guess that you'd be open to explaining to someone not in the know.
I just finished David Archuleta's memoir yesterday and he talked a lot about his stage father and how much he controlled his life, even well into adulthood. He also talked about how close he came to taking his own life.
"I'm Glad My Mother Died" by Jeanette McCurdy is another hard read that I'd recommend about young people in Hollywood.
She was found unresponsive by a friend at Judson Mill Lofts in Greenville, SC. EMS pronounced her dead on scene around 2pm yesterday (8/16). Greenville County SD say they do not suspect foul play in her death but have not disclosed a suspected cause.
Her brother passed away young of an enlarged heart and aortic complications, and a comment in another thread said she's talked about having the same condition or at least being afraid that it'll take her too, so let's not jump to conclusions. I can't confirm or deny the other comment, I don't watch a lot of interviews
Facebook comment saying she killed herself and she doesn't deserve any pity. Or something along those lines
Oh I went OFF on that person basically telling them fuck you. People with your mentality are PART of the problem and why someone might think they owe nothing to be anyone to continue to be alive.
And of course added that cause of death hasn't been released but still fuck them.
As someone who has battled with severe depression that kind of shit CAN make someone in a mental emotional wreck state feel even worse as if further proof they're worthless.
Just hope there's answers for what happened regardless. What's done is done. Suicide or illness or .. whatever... Answers . For her family.
Maybe not completely rational sounding, but that's my own thought process. Can't make theirs. Feel awful for her daughter regardless .
ETA : and thanks for reward on upper comment to whomever put it there. Notification got lost.
She was talking about back pain because she was photographed on crutches. While traveling with her admitted to be abusive boyfriend. The same boyfriend she was traveling with yesterday. Just saying…
I really hope it wasn’t an undiagnosed cardiac issue. I know some of these things can be genetic. With her brother passing so early, and her recent back pain, it seems like it could have been related. My gut is that it wasn’t a cardiac problem, but I guess we will see…
This all just unlocked a core memory in my mind of something I think needs to be brought into light though about struggling with health issues being younger, and not being taken serious by a lot of doctors. I wasn’t taken serious by any doctors when I was younger and going through it.
I hope all doctors start taking their patients more seriously, especially the younger ones. You can suffer and be going through it early, but a lot of doctors don’t seem to care unless are over 50. So so many younger people are suffering and dying early and their voices are not being heard. So many doctors treated me like I was insane, and pretty much told me that because I was in my teens, 20’s and 30’s that nothing serious could be wrong with me. I am going to get into it below with my heart issues, but I also experienced this with autoimmune issues, and issues after being bit by a tick that started when I was in my 20’s that I can’t get into right now because that is an even longer story…
I was born with a genetic heart issue. I failed my PE classes every year in high school. I wasn’t lazy. I actually found my past report cards, and my heart rate was off the charts when my teachers told me to run to pass this course. Turns out, I was born with a heart defect that was causing my issues.
Unbelievable that a 4.0 average student went with an F every grade report in PE for years and nobody thought to look into this? I got in A in almost every class, but an F consistently in PE and no one saw a reg flag? I’m still baffled, and I try to get to my story out, because if it happened to me, I can guarantee, it has happened to others, and it is still is happening to others to this day.
I told everyone during this time that my heart felt like it was going to explode during PE and I couldn’t breathe during these classes. My heart rate was always off the chart when doing a strenuous exercise like my schools required to pass these courses.
Turns out, I was sick, and my heart had a defect. Idiots. All of them.
When my school introduced more yoga and soft impact type courses, I aced them all because it wasn’t so hard on my body and heart.
I hope more high schools take this into consideration for their courses going forward in the future for other students.
I wasn’t taken seriously until I hit 40 for my heart issues. That’s a long ass time to suffer, and who knows the permanent damage that was done, or how this all impacted my already struggling heart due to the defect. I know I had a heard attack in my 30’s and my insurance and doctors tried to cover it up. I also had a mini stroke in my 20’s, and that was scary as shi$.
Ladies and gentlemen, a lot of these doctors will gaslight you, and have been gaslighting people for a long long time. I really hope if I can make one big change, I hope it’s change that happens in the medical field with how these doctors are treating their patients that are going to them for answers and help, and are leaving these appointments with no hope, no guidance and no information because these “doctors” won’t listen to them or help them. They are suffering and dying early when they could be alive today if they were taken seriously and treated when they were seeking help and treatment.
Nope. Call it out 🎤. Start telling your stories, and start letting others know you are going through. I know some think that telling peole what you went through, or what you are going through won’t matter or help someone else, but I disagree. I have met a lot of people in the US that have very similar experiences as my own. It’s beyond time for change in this country. The fact that we PAY for this kind of treatment and “care” in the US is disgusting to me.
I’ll tell you that what I went through was having insurance at Kaiser in WA State.
I hope Hayden is at peace now. She went through it. Rest easy Hayden
♥️ 36 is far too young. I hope you are with your brother now.
I had a PE teacher who forced me to run laps while I was sick. After I recovered from pneumonia and came back to school I told him why I physically couldn’t run laps, he told me I should have had a doctors note specifically telling him that I couldn’t. Yeah, because gym class is what the whole world revolves around.
Fortunately she had given up custody and gave full custody to her daughters father in 2018 (I think), so at least her daughter is not being uprooted to a new country after having spent her childhood with her mom. It is awful, regardless, it seems like they had a good relationship from afar.
I wish drug overdose deaths weren’t taboo but that’s the world we live in. No judgement. I know that addiction is usually a symptom of a deeper issue. It’s just weird that we hide details if it’s a drug related death. You can almost always assume based on that. But it’s still so weird to me. Like imagine if cancer was stigmatized the same way.
It makes me think of Brittany Murphy. Everyone jumped to the conclusion it was drugs but she had undiagnosed pneumonia. There were some drug interactions that contributed to her weaker state but they were all legal. She was also severely anemic. And everyone was like, “That’s what you get for doing drugs.”
Yes. I remember learning about this back then. I believe she made a touching tribute on her Instagram story about him. When I heard this news tonight, my first thought was about their poor, poor parents.
I know that everyone talks about her more famous role, but I still remember seeing her for the first time as the babysitter (Jessica?) in Malcolm in the Middle who was always manipulating the boys.
Talk about true Millennial representation! Hayden was Dakota/Elle Fanning, Abigail Breslin, Emma Roberts, Hilary Duff before all them girls found fame. She was everywhere playing alongside big names and KILLIN it! I remember seeing her (were about the same age) when I’d watch the soaps (shoutout to Guiding Light) with my auntie after school. Then seeing her in If you Believe, she danced circles around the entire adult cast!
And of course who could forget her in Remember the Titans “I hate playing with dolls!” I just watched Raising Helen last night where she also killed her role! While I didn’t follow her adult career, I’ve always hoped for the best for her! I hope she can rest easy now with her brother away from the pressures of being famous.
And I TRULY hope that asshole ex of hers didn’t have anything to do with it!! Fuck that abusing piece of shit!
In related news a friend of mine in NJ passed on Friday. He was 47, a decorated Marine war veteran and father. We helped rescue people after Hurricane Katrina and provided aid.
Rob's a real one. While we sit here amongst the celebrity worship, Rob is the one who went and did. People were able to rebuild their lives because of you and Rob.
It was Michelle Trachtenberg and Daveigh Chase earlier, and now her. It's like they were the canaries in the coal mine that is Hollywood. I really, really need Amanda Bynes to be okay.
Omg that show hit so hard for me because her acting was so genuine in there, I’ve never seen someone so talented.
I never knew her real life situation was similar to the character.
Damn... Was just watching an episode from Malcolm in the Middle where she's playing this feisty, frizzied hair babysitter and was thinking how great she was in the role. She's way too young to go.. :(
This is truly saddening and truly bizarre. I don't think she was sick with anything. Everyone, as you get older remember to keep your best friends and family as close as you can!
I want to say that people die everyday that we don’t know, but lately it’s been of the ones that made your childhood amazing. I feel really sad. Not sure why I’m late to her book train, but definitely might get it after I handle priorities. I hate this for her baby/kid.
I’m wrecked about this. I feel like I grew up with her, like many of the Disney stars. I fell in love with Tiger Cruise and then Heroes and… fuck, I can’t believe she’s gone. This year doesn’t even feel real.
This is so sad! I had watched Hayden Panettiere since she played Lizzie Spaulding on “Guiding Light” (I was young). The Disney Channel movie “Tiger Cruise” made me cry as it was the first movie I watched about 9/11 since that day. Then of course her later work. Ugh this hurts 😭
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