Hayden Panettiere said her drug addiction forced her to send her daughter to her father in Ukraine
For the first time, Hayden Panettiere He spoke about his addiction to opiates and alcohol, which nearly cost him his career and his life. In addition, the actress admitted that for the sake of her little daughter, she was forced to send her to her father, Wladimir Klitschko, in Ukraine.
“I was on top of the world and I screwed it up‘ the 32-year-old actress told People magazine. She revealed that her drug addiction began as a teenager and then spiraled out of control as she battled postpartum depression after giving birth to daughter Kaya in 2014.
“As I got older, drugs and alcohol became something I could hardly live without.r,” Panettiere confessed, revealing that her battle with postpartum depression coupled with her drug and alcohol addiction led her to make the “heartbreaking” decision to send her daughter to live with her father.
“I had tremors when I woke up and could only function if I drank alcohol,” he admitted. “Sending Kaya away was the hardest thing I had to do. But I wanted to be a good mother to her, and sometimes that means letting her go.”
“I never felt like I wanted to hurt my daughter, but I didn’t want to spend time with her”Panettiere admitted. “In my life there was only this gray color.”
Panettiere said she didn’t drink while pregnant with Kaya, but admitted she relapsed shortly after her daughter was born and her drinking problems got out of control from then on.
The actress sneaked out drinking and her relationship with Klitschko, who she had been dating since 2009, began to unravel. “He didn’t want to be near me‘ he recalled. “With opiates and alcohol, I’ve done everything to feel happy for a moment. Then I felt worse than before. I was in a cycle of self-destruction.”
After sending her daughter to Klitschko, 46, whom she split from a few months earlier after nine years of dating, her alcohol addiction worsened to the point that she required hospitalization.
“The doctors told me my liver was going to collapse‘ he admitted. “I was no longer a 20-year-old who could just recover.”
Hayden Panettiere has revealed she battled addiction to opiates and alcohol for years
Panettiere told People magazine that she felt she had “ruined” the many opportunities she’d been given, noting that she was “on top of the world” before she took a nosedive over alcohol and addiction abused drugs.
The former child star, who began acting on screen at age 11 when she landed roles on popular soap operas One Life to Live and Guiding Light, said her substance abuse problems began when she was just 15 was. , a year before the start of the hit TV series “Heroes”. At the time, he claimed that members of his team had begun to “Happiness pills‘ to make them appear more ‘alive’ in interviews.
“I had no idea that this wasn’t appropriate or what door it would open for me in terms of my addiction,” he explained.
Panettiere drank alcohol and occasionally took opioids, but in the meantime his success was increasing. “What saved me was not being able to be messy on set and at work,” said the star, who landed the role of super-strong cheerleader Claire Bennet on Heroes when she was 16. “But on set, things got out of control. And as I got older, drugs and alcohol became something I almost couldn’t live without.”
After her stay in the hospital, she finally found the strength to seek treatment for her addiction, eventually entering rehab for eight months, where she says she found the support she needed to face her demons .
“I tried really hard and had to be willing to be incredibly honest.”. She’s now returned to the set to reprise her fan-favorite character, Kirby Reed, in the upcoming Scream movie and is dedicated to her work with Hoplon International, the charity she founded in March whose mission is to raise funds collect Ukraine.
“It wasn’t easy and there were a lot of ups and downs,” Panettiere said of her journey to sobriety and happiness. “But I don’t regret even the ugliest things that have happened to me. I feel incredibly fulfilled. And I feel like I got a second chance“.
As for Kaya, who is now seven and lives with her father in a country devastated by war following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Panettiere insists her daughter is safe and even praises the girl’s handling with the situation.
“She is my favorite little person. And to see how he handles this whole situation really blew me away. She’s very confident,” he told Good Morning America.
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