{"id":865378,"date":"2026-08-23T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865378\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:52:14","slug":"hayden-panettieres-estranged-mother-lesley-vogel-slams-shameful-criticism-gayle-king-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865378\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere\u2019s estranged mother Lesley Vogel slams \u2018shameful\u2019 criticism, Gayle King comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hayden Panettiere<\/a>\u2019s estranged mother Lesley Vogel has hit back at the intense public backlash against her after her daughter\u2019s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vogel said she was \u201cvery hurt\u201d when criticised on social media, and on TV by journalist Gayle King<\/a>, following her initial statement after Panettiere died aged 36.<\/p>\n

\"NEW<\/p>\n

Actress Hayden Panettiere and her mother Lesley Vogel, pictured in 2007.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very, very hurt and deeply disappointed in the lack of professionalism, the lack of compassion in slamming someone who\u2019s lost two children, without even a modicum of consideration,\u201d Vogel told the Daily Mail<\/a> of King\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one reached out to me before,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s shameful. It\u2019s unconscionable to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her first comments on the loss, Vogel had told NBC News<\/a>\u00a0her daughter \u201csadly lost her way\u201d and she wished \u201cshe had stayed true to herself because she had many incredible attributes\u201d.<\/p>\n

She also criticised Panettiere\u2019s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson<\/a>, who was with the Nashville star when she was found unresponsive<\/a> in a South Carolina apartment.<\/p>\n

On CBS Mornings, King reacted, saying: \u201cAll I can think of is, \u2018Thanks mum, for nothing.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Vogel told the Daily Mail the public backlash towards her had made the tragedy even tougher.<\/p>\n

Panettiere\u2019s death came three years after her 28-year-old brother, Jansen Panettiere, died from an enlarged\u00a0heart, coupled with aortic valve\u00a0complications, in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is infinite sadness,\u201d Vogel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the time for me to be weak. I don\u2019t have the luxury right now of being weak. I have too much to do for Hayden.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m done with that, then I will give myself the luxury to mourn \u2013 deeply mourn.<\/p>\n

\"Hayden<\/p>\n

Vogel has now lost both her children. Hayden\u2019s brother, Jansen, centre, died in February 2023.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying I\u2019m not grieving now. I am, and I do have my moments. But the bigger picture right now is I have to stay strong. I don\u2019t have an option.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before her death, Panettiere had been open about her complicated relationship with her mother, who was also her former manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything was business,\u201d she said in a May interview of\u00a0On Purpose with Jay Shetty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI became the confidant and the assistant and the therapist and the shoulder to cry on and everything but her child.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Actress<\/p>\n

Vogel said she had \u201cinfinite sadness\u201d after her daughter\u2019s death.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Vogel said she had felt powerless to help break what she called a \u201ccodependent bond\u201d between Panettiere and Hickerson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to go no contact because I could not help her any more. I could not change this pattern, and believe me, I tried,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t leave because I didn\u2019t care about her or didn\u2019t love her. I put so much effort in trying to save her. You cannot save someone who doesn\u2019t want to be saved.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere\u2019s estranged mother Lesley Vogel has hit back at the intense public backlash against her after her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-865378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}