{"id":867942,"date":"2026-08-25T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867942\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:16:23","slug":"hayden-panettiere-brian-hickersons-magnetic-charm-kept-her-coming-back-sister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867942\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere: Brian Hickerson’s Magnetic Charm Kept Her Coming Back, Sister Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hayden Panettiere
\n Lured Into Brian Hickerson’s Web Over His Charm, Sister Says<\/p>\n

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\n August 25, 2026
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\n August 25, 2026
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Brian Hickerson<\/a>‘s magnetic charm kept Hayden Panettiere<\/a> coming back to him despite their rocky relationship over the years, according to Brian’s half-sister.<\/p>\n

Ashley Hickerson told the Daily Mail<\/a> … \u201cIf I can say one thing about Brian, it\u2019s that he is the most charismatic person and he draws you in.\u201d\u00a0Ashley also said she understood why Hayden was with Brian, who’s fun and can make you laugh no matter what.<\/p>\n

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Hayden and Brian began dating in 2018 and stayed together on and off until the actresss’ suspected overdose death<\/a> on August 16 in Greenville, South Carolina. Brian’s brother, Zach<\/a>, found<\/a> Hayden’s body and they called 911. Her cause and manner of death are pending the results of toxicology tests.<\/p>\n

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As you know, Brian had a history of domestic violence against Hayden, who accused him of punching her in 2020, according to court docs obtained by TMZ.<\/p>\n

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The docs say Hayden called the cops on Brian after an argument turned physical in their L.A. apartment. Bryan was arrested and charged with felony domestic violence, but he later reached a global resolution in that case and one in Wyoming. He was sentenced to 360 days in jail with 358 days suspended, and he also served 12 months of unsupervised probation.<\/p>\n


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Bryan was even accused of sending<\/a> Hayden threatening text messages after his 2020 arrest for domestic violence.\u00a0In addition, Brian was reportedly arrested in 2010 and charged with assault and battery by mob, which did not involve violence against Hayden.<\/p>\n

Brian’s sister, Ashley, told the Daily Mail … \u201cHe did seek treatment and he was getting help … He did own up to his s***.\u201d Ashley went on … ‘We all have our demons. Brian was not raised that way. It wasn’t until he got into drugs that he went south.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere Lured Into Brian Hickerson’s Web Over His Charm, Sister Says Published August 25, 2026 1:52 AM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,44,85,635,26898],"class_list":["post-867942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867942","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=867942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}