Hayden Panettiere covers Women's Health - Talks Scream VI, Nashville and new life

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She mentioned how she started drinking when she booked "Nashville":

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Then, at age 22, she moved to Nashville and began drinking to cope with stress.

“I was being told how to be and how to live by so many people in my life,” she says. “I wanted certain decisions to be my own, and nobody could stop me. What I put in my body was like an act of defiance.”

Hayden maintained her professionalism on-set, and with no paparazzi following her, it was easy to hide her habit.

“Some people work out. I wish that was my coping mechanism,” Hayden says. “Alcohol might make you feel better in that moment, but it makes you feel so much worse the next day, and then you do it all over again.”

She revealed her first treatment center while filming S4 of Nashville was her choice, yet things got harder for her:

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She entered rehab in the middle of production on Nashville’s fourth season in 2015. “I was the one who put myself in the first treatment center,” she says. “I was drowning.”

In treatment, she was told to change everything about her daily routine, from what she read to the people she surrounded herself with, yet returning to work made that advice basically impossible. In a cruel twist of fate, art was imitating life.

And probably reason why she was kinda MIA most of S6 of Nashville

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“They wrote my character as having postpartum depression,” says Hayden, whose daughter was going back and forth between Nashville and Ukraine (with her father) at the time. “They wrote that she abandoned her child and went to a different country. And it was very difficult to go on-set and to act out these feelings about these things that I was truly going through in my real life.”

How she entered therapy in 2021

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She went back to treatment in 2021, enrolled in a 12-step program, and even went to trauma therapy.

“I did a lot of work on myself,” Hayden explains of this soul-searching period. “After eight months of intensive therapy, I felt like I had this blank canvas to work with.”

Talks about her new routine

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Now, without alcohol or opiates, her body is recovering, and she’s choosing which habits will fill that blank canvas. At night, she sips chamomile tea with milk and honey while soaking in vanilla-scented bubble baths. She’s finally sleeping again. She works out with trainer Eddie Pavese, whom she met while in treatment, and keeps a Peloton in her bedroom—though she admits she doesn’t have a rigid workout schedule in order to keep exercise from feeling too much like a chore.

Part of her recovery process has included reclaiming herself after childbirth too.

“My body still didn’t feel like it belonged to me,” Hayden says, explaining why she decided to get a breast reduction in November 2022. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with somebody who wants to tweak something if it makes them feel more confident. That’s all I have to say about it. My confidence is back.”

Talks about her return to acting and how she's still in touch with her Scream 4 co-stars:

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“In therapy, I kept wanting to go back to the beginning of the period of time where I was really happy and healthy,” she says of reprising her role as Kirby Reed in Scream 6. (Hayden has fond memories of filming Scream 4 in 2010 and says she’s still on a text thread with her costars from the movie.)

This time around, though, she and her character have something in common: They’re both survivors. “We saw Kirby get stabbed, but we never saw her die. We didn’t see her rescued either,” Hayden says of her character’s fate. “She has that human trauma, and it’s changed her. That’s something I can obviously relate to.”

Kirby is back, and so is Hayden. Her homecoming has been hard-earned—rebuilding from the inside out to become the strongest, healthiest version of herself. This is the Hayden of the future, the woman who creates her own environment and makes her own moves. The best part? She feels like she’s just now getting started.

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a43029339/hayden-panettiere-addiction-cover-interview/

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[Intuition]

Looking healthy. Glad to see her doing well

[The Witch]

She's giving 

 

They need to cast her on The White Lotus s3 or sumn 

[Johnny Jacobs]

Love het from the start! 

 

She should get back out there and get booked

[chosensparkles]

5 minutes ago, Johnny Jacobs said:

Love het from the start! 

 

She should get back out there and get booked

I think she's letting Scream VI happen to prove she's reliable and production can book her again

I need her to star in a great series or do a handful of awards movies

[johnny_9ss]

Love her.

 

I'll be so disappointed if they brought Kirby back just to kill her off. 

[Sam96]

🧡🧡

[Musicmajor]

ugh, this brings me so much joy! I have always stanned Hayden and seeing her so happy and glowing, makes me so so happy for her. I Hope post Scream 5, she starts getting booked again and we see even more of her. 

[Karla Cabello]

didnt her brother die recently

[Uncatena]

she looks stunning and healthy! so happy she is doing better. 

[Right Now]

1 hour ago, The Witch said:

She's giving 

 

They need to cast her on The White Lotus s3 or sumn 

Agreed. She’s such a great actress. Need ha on TWL S3 asap!

[Pink Ranger]

9 minutes ago, Karla Cabello said:

didnt her brother die recently

This was probably filmed/interviewed before that tragically happened? 

[Gabe²]

So glad to hear she’s doing better 

she’s been going through so much the last 10 years 

 

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46 minutes ago, Karla Cabello said:

didnt her brother die recently

she did that interview/photoshoot in late January

 

36 minutes ago, Pink Ranger said:

This was probably filmed/interviewed before that tragically happened? 

 

[ConceptD]

Hayden is incredibly brave and strong. This was done back in January, but she has done interviews today and I feel for her so much because it can’t be easy. It’s good to see her back. 

[ConceptD]

51 minutes ago, Karla Cabello said:

didnt her brother die recently

What are you even getting at with this karla? 

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4 minutes ago, ConceptD said:

Hayden is incredibly brave and strong. This was done back in January, but she has done interviews today and I feel for her so much because it can’t be easy. It’s good to see her back. 

yes she will be on The View on Wednesday (first scheduled for today)

https://twitter.com/hotburrito9/status/1632787818001866752?s=20

[ConceptD]

1 minute ago, chosensparkles said:

yes she will be on The View on Wednesday (first scheduled for today)

https://twitter.com/hotburrito9/status/1632787818001866752?s=20

I love how one of the biggest scoop accounts for scream is britneyvinyl truly an overlap 

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1 minute ago, ConceptD said:

I love how one of the biggest scoop accounts for scream is britneyvinyl truly an overlap 

World Premiere in NY tonight apparently

Courteney, Hayden and Melissa will be there

[HungryByTheBuffet]

8 minutes ago, ConceptD said:

What are you even getting at with this karla? 

For real she likely was also already obligated for the interviews she's doing this week too and besides maybe she can use the distraction from the grief, also she has things to take care of like her career and finances like every person does even when in pain... 

 

OT

ugh queen

[ebaby]

healthy radiant queen

 

she's coming!

[Bhabylon]

Queen looks so good omg

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[kishi]

She looks great, rooting for Hayden always!