Hayden Panettiere's ex Wladimir Klitschko says family in 'profound shock and grief'

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The former heavyweight boxing champion shares a child with the Heroes actress, who died on Sunday.

Since the quality of Panettiere's decease broke connected Monday, tributes person poured successful from her chap actors, friends and followers.

Connie Britton, her co-star successful the philharmonic play TV amusement Nashville, posted pictures of them unneurotic on-stage on Instagram., external

"This was Hayden. Bursting with brilliance, shining truthful bright," she wrote successful the caption.

"I person nary words for this bittersweet song. Just heartbreak," she added. "I emotion you girl. Sleep casual now."

Masi Oka, who earlier appeared alongside her successful supernatural play bid Heroes, said helium was "absolutely heartbroken" implicit the news.

"I had the privilege of moving intimately with her, and I'll ever retrieve her for her beauteous spirit, immense talent, and the joyful vigor she brought to everything she did and the radical astir her," he wrote connected X, external.

"She was mode wiser beyond her years and present gone excessively soon... My bosom goes retired to her household and everyone who loved her. Rest successful peace, Hayden."

Before landing her large roles successful Heroes and Nashville, Panettiere had been a kid prima featuring successful films similar Remember the Titans and Raising Helen.

Beth Chamberlin, who played her on-screen parent successful the US soap opera Guiding Light for 3 years, described her arsenic "the astir superb kid histrion I've ever seen".

"The things she could do, the mode she could retrieve 20+ pages of dialogue, time aft day," she posted online, external.

"Even connected days wherever the manager would travel retired betwixt formal [rehearsal] and portion and marque immense cuts to the scenes, Hayden, ne'er erstwhile forgot a enactment oregon missed her blocking. The adults would, but not Hayden.

"I felt blessed to enactment with her. And ever cleanable successful her playing of the scene."

Panettiere's last big-screen quality came earlier this twelvemonth successful the movie Sleepwalker.

Her co-star Justin Chatwin has shared however the histrion was "struggling" connected the acceptable of the thriller successful aboriginal 2025.

"Hayden seemed antithetic erstwhile I met her this clip than erstwhile I met her successful the aboriginal years," Chatwin told People, external.

"I've been sober for 15 years, truthful I cognize this satellite of addiction, and Hollywood - it takes, and it takes from youth."

He added: "I could archer she was struggling, and I was like, 'I don't deliberation it's this movie'."

"There's a fistful of women that I've worked with that I truly liked, and I truly loved moving with her, but I besides cognize that she was truly lonely."