{"id":903055,"date":"2026-09-23T23:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903055\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:28:14","slug":"hayden-panettiere-death-new-details-about-rehab-stay-and-previous-overdose-revealed-in-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903055\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere death: New details about rehab stay and previous overdose revealed in new report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tragic new details about Hayden Panettiere<\/a>\u2019s final weeks, including a secret stay in rehab before she died at age 36<\/a>, have been revealed in a new report from the Greenville County Coroner\u2019s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The report said the Nashville actress suffered a previous overdose and that either Brian or Zach Hickerson<\/a> (the name was redacted) claimed Panettiere had \u201ca long history of drug, alcohol and nitrous oxide abuse\u201d and that he \u201chas had to administer Narcan to the decedent before\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Tragic new details about the weeks leading up to Hayden Panettiere\u2019s death at age 36 have been revealed in a new report. \u00a0Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

Narcan is used as an emergency medication to reverse opioid overdoses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same brother insisted he was \u201cunaware of the decedent using any illegal substances yesterday or today but stated that she was very good at hiding them\u201d.<\/p>\n

One of the Hickerson brothers also shared that Panettiere had recently been in rehab too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said she \u201cwas in a drug rehab facility in Malibu, California, up until a few weeks ago\u201d.<\/p>\n

The rehab details were confirmed by her father Skip Panettiere, who said his daughter \u201chad recently been released [from] rehab\u201d in \u201cMalibu\u201d. He said she spent \u201ctwo or three weeks\u201d at the treatment facility, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Skip said his daughter had \u201cstruggled with addiction since her early 20s and [had] been in multiple rehab facilities since that time\u201d.<\/p>\n

He also noted that Panettiere had \u201csuffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter,\u201d Kaya, 11, and said her \u201caddiction issues \u2026 escalated since then\u201d.<\/p>\n

Skip, who also lost his son Jansen Panettiere in February 2023, slammed his daughter\u2019s relationship with Brian in the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pair had an on-again off-again relationship for years, which Skip claimed had been \u201cnothing but troubled\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Hayden<\/p>\n

Panettiere\u2019s father Skip slammed her on-again off-again relationship with Brian Hickerson, who she was with on the day she died. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The coroner\u2019s report also included harrowing new details about the day the Heroes star died<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A \u201csmall clear plastic bag of a white powdery substance\u201d was found inside a sunglass case that belonged to Panettiere, along with \u201ca medication bottle labelled as Adderall to the decedent\u201d that \u201ccontained a small clear plastic bag with blue-coloured tablets that appeared to possibly be pressed pills and a cut straw\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the pills and straws later tested positive for fentanyl<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Panettiere\u2019s official cause of death was listed by the coroner as an \u201caccident\u201d caused by \u201cthe toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, alprazolam, methocarbamol and quetiapine\u201d.<\/p>\n

She had travelled to Greenville from Los Angeles the day before she died with Brian and was with him and his brother on the day she died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Hayden<\/p>\n

Harrowing new details about the day she died were released in the new report, which details when the brothers found her unresponsive. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

According to the report, Brian claimed he woke up on the Sunday morning and saw Panettiere\u00a0putting on make-up. <\/p>\n

He said they \u201cate cereal together\u201d before Brian allegedly \u201cfell back asleep\u201d in the bedroom. He said he woke back up later that afternoon after hearing his brother knock on the front door. The trio had plans to go out to lunch, per the report.<\/p>\n

One of the brothers \u2013 name redacted \u2013 went to wake up Panettiere, who was face down and unresponsive. She was also \u201cpurple in colour\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The brother claimed he administered Narcan \u201cwithout success\u201d and then the brothers called 911 and started CPR until emergency services arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Paramedics worked on Panettiere for 30 minutes to try to revive her, but she was pronounced dead just after 2:30pm on August 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The actress was farewelled at an emotional celebration of life service<\/a> on September 19, during an intimate service in Malibu.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ceremony was attended by several high-profile guests including Panettiere\u2019s former Nashville costar Connie Britton, Evan Ross and Ruby Rose.<\/p>\n

The National Alcohol and Other Drug hotline (1800 250 015) provides free and confidential advice about alcohol and other drugs, including available treatment options, and automatically directs the caller to the Alcohol and Drug Information Service in their state\/territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tragic new details about Hayden Panettiere\u2019s final weeks, including a secret stay in rehab before she died at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-903055","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\/903055","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=903055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}