GREENVILLE, S.C. — Hayden Panettiere’s on-and-off fellow Brian Hickerson and his member Zach Hickerson were astatine the South Carolina flat wherever the histrion died implicit the weekend, according to a constabulary study released Tuesday.
A Greenville constabulary serviceman who responded to the residence Sunday day was met by the brothers and past observed paramedics performing CPR connected an unresponsive woman, the study states.
“The diligent did not look to person immoderate evident carnal reasons to beryllium unresponsive,” the serviceman notes. After attempting lifesaving measures, the exigency workers declared Panettiere dormant astatine 2:31 p.m.
No origin has been determined, and her decease remains nether investigation. An autopsy recovered nary signs of trauma, and constabulary said officers saw nary signs of foul play.
The onetime kid star, who soared to fame successful the TV shows “Heroes” and “Nashville” portion enduring struggles with intoxicant addiction and depression, would person turned 37 connected Friday.
Tumultuous relationship
Panettiere and Brian Hickerson had been successful a tumultuous narration for years, with allegations the 37-year-old aspiring histrion physically abused her.
He was charged successful 2020 with aggregate counts of felony abuse, and helium pleaded nary contention to 2 counts of injuring a spouse oregon spouse and served a abbreviated clip successful jailhouse owed to the case. He was sentenced to 4 years of probation and choler absorption and Alcoholics Anonymous sessions.
He completed the presumption and precocious asked a justice to trim his condemnation to misdemeanors; that petition was denied Thursday by a Los Angeles judge. Messages were sent Tuesday seeking remark from Pat Carey, an lawyer for Hickerson.
Panettiere wrote of Hickerson’s clip down bars, and however she hoped it would alteration him, successful her memoir, “This Is Me,” which came retired successful May.
“I wanted Brian to beryllium successful jailhouse conscionable agelong capable to scare him, but not agelong capable where’d helium go a worse person,” she wrote. “I needed him to admit his wrongs and alteration due to the fact that of them, but I didn’t privation to traumatize him successful an irreversible way.”
She wrote astir her determination to “let spell of my resentment” and effort to forgive Hickerson, who she’d met astatine a West Hollywood edifice successful 2018 aft noticing his “charming smile.”
Police study has redactions
The constabulary report, which is heavy redacted, said the responding serviceman archetypal spoke with Zach Hickerson, who said the unresponsive pistillate was his brother’s girlfriend.
“I observed Zach to beryllium precise affectional portion EMS were moving connected Hayden. Brian did not go affectional until EMS declared her officially deceased,” the serviceman said.
After she was declared dead, the serviceman escorted the brothers retired of the apartment. The serviceman spoke with Brian “more successful depth,” but the details of that speech are redacted successful the constabulary report.
Also redacted is simply a database that of medications that Panettiere had been taking.
She had been unfastened astir addiction issues
In her book, Panettiere described lifelong scars from her aboriginal fame, and acknowledged being addicted to intoxicant and enduring postpartum slump aft the commencement of her daughter, Kaya, with Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko successful 2014.
Panettiere’s daughter, present 11, began surviving with Klitschko full-time successful Ukraine erstwhile she was 2. At the time, the histrion was struggling with intelligence wellness and addiction. She entered rehab successful 2015, portion filming “Nashville.”
“I deliberation there’s been this precise communal misconception that I conscionable gave up my child,” she said successful an interrogation with podcaster Jay Shetty successful May. “That could not beryllium farther from the truth.”
In a connection Tuesday, Klitschko said helium volition marque definite their girl ever remembers her mother.
“She built an unthinkable vocation done immense talent, portion besides facing the darker sides of a precise demanding industry. Nothing volition erase the times we shared oregon the spot she had successful our lives,” Klitschko said connected Instagram.
Panettiere had endured galore household struggles, and tragedy. Her parents’ matrimony was strained, and yet ended. Her younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, who was besides an actor, died of a bosom information successful 2023, astatine property 28.
Started retired arsenic a kid actor
Panettiere was 1 of 2 children calved to Skip Panettiere, a erstwhile New York City occurrence captain, and Lesley Vogel, a erstwhile soap opera prima who had been the premier unit down her aboriginal vocation earlier the 2 became estranged. Panettiere began acting successful commercials and soap operas, including arsenic the ever-troubled Lizzie Spaulding connected “Guiding Light.” In “This Is Me,” she wrote that the traumas her quality endured, from being kidnapped to sidesplitting her mother’s boyfriend, led her to subordinate “catastrophe with adoration.”
“Is it immoderate wonderment wherefore I’ve faced truthful galore existent struggles successful my life?” she wrote.
She had overmuch warmer memories of her relation arsenic a cheerleader with supernatural powers successful “Heroes,” which propelled her to fame successful 2006. The bid revolved astir the mantra: “Save the cheerleader, prevention the world.”
She went connected to triumph 3 Teen Choice Awards for that role. She was besides nominated for a Grammy for a children’s spoken connection album, “A Bug’s Life: Read-Along.”
Panettiere aboriginal played a brash state upstart other Connie Britton connected “Nashville,” which aired connected ABC for 4 seasons earlier being canceled and revived connected CMT. She did her ain singing successful the show, which scored immoderate hits connected state charts, spawned U.S. tours and earned Panettiere 2 supporting histrion Golden Globe nominations.
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