Hayden Panettiere has opened up about her opioid and alcohol addiction for the first time, admitting that it hit “bottom,” and nearly killed her.
Hayden Panettiere has revealed in a new interview how his liver “came out” due to a secret opioid addiction he dealt with for years.
The actress also admitted that she “didn’t want to see her daughter” during her fights.
Hayden talked about his addictions in the latest edition of People.
She told the post that she was only 15 when someone on her team would give her “happy pills” before walking down the red carpet, which would make her optimistic during interviews. The sun reported.
This led to an addiction to opioids and alcohol.
“I had no idea this wasn’t a proper thing, or what door would open for me when it came to my addiction,” the actress told the channel.
Hayden could not live with compensated drugs and alcohol, and eventually his life revolved around them.
“He was on top of the world and I ruined him,” the actress said.
His addiction got so bad that he “had been beaten when he woke up,” that he would only be cured by drinking a little alcohol.
The actress revealed that she had to go to the hospital for treatment and that her liver “came out”.
Fear diagnosis
His alcohol problem got worse and he eventually had to go to the hospital.
There, he was diagnosed with jaundice, which is a “condition in which the skin, whites of the eyes and mucous membranes turn yellow due to a high level of bilirubin, a yellow-orange bile pigment.”
Doctors told Hayden that his liver would go away if he did not receive help.
“He was no longer a 20-year-old who could only recover,” he said.
He finally went into rehab for eight months and said so People which eventually made her “overcome the hump.”
Postpartum depression
To add to his addictions, Hayden suffered from postpartum depression after giving birth to his daughter, Kaya, in 2015.
She shares Kaya with her ex, Wladimir Klitschko.
“I think I’ve hit rock bottom, but then there’s this trap that opens up,” Hayden admitted.
Her actual pregnancy was written on her paper Nashvillebut it soon became apparent that the demons of his character were also something he faced.
“They were very hard years. I could relate to a lot of these stories like alcoholism and postpartum depression. They hit close to home,” he said.
“I never had the feeling I wanted to hurt my son, but I didn’t want to spend time with her,” Hayden said of her PPD.
“There was this gray color in my life.”
Although the actress sought treatment for her depression, she still struggled and relied on alcohol to overcome it most days.
Finally, he sought treatment for his depression.
Family problems
Drugs and alcohol can be difficult to deal with in a relationship.
He met Wladimir in 2009 at a book launch party and they got it right and started dating shortly after.
They separated in 2011 due to the long distance, but reunited in 2013.
Finally, Wladimir proposed the proposal in 2014 and they welcomed their first child together in 2015.
Their relationship bottomed out when she ran away for a drink because she couldn’t cope with everything.
“I didn’t want to be around me,” he admitted.
In 2018, the couple had separated and Hayden made the difficult decision to send Kaya to live with Wladimir in Ukraine.
“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. But I wanted to be a good mother to her, and sometimes that means letting them go,” she said.
After letting her daughter have a better life, Hayden found out about her liver.
Looking for treatment
After entering rehab, Hayden “finally found the peace he had longed for.”
“It’s an everyday choice, and I’m checking with myself all the time. But I’m very grateful to be a part of this world again and I’ll never take it for granted,” he said. People.
After having to give her daughter to her ex, she was determined to devote herself a lot to herself.
She “received both traumatic therapy and hospital treatment over the past year” and will return to the big screen next Shout out film.
Hayden has not had much luck in relationships, as he had an abusive relationship with Brian Hickerson after Wladimir.
They separated in 2020 after he was arrested for bodily injury to a spouse / roommate, assault and intimidation of a witness, but eventually reunited.
This article originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced with permission.