\n Police in South Carolina closed the investigation into actress Hayden Panettiere\u2019s death after it was determined she died of an accidental drug overdose, the Greenville police department said Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cBased on the (coroner\u2019s office\u2019s) determination and the findings of the investigation, Hayden Panettiere\u2019s death has been ruled accidental. The Greenville Police Department has concluded its investigation,\u201d the police department said in an email to CNN.\n <\/p>\n
\n The Greenville County Coroner\u2019s Office ruled Panettiere\u2019s death an accident<\/a> last month, but investigators had been looking into whether the 36-year-old obtained illicit and possibly counterfeit drugs from a dealer in Southern California<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n Panettiere, who starred in the TV shows \u201cHeroes\u201d and \u201cNashville,\u201d was pronounced dead at a Greenville apartment on August 16.\n <\/p>\n \n The actress died from a toxic mix of the opioid fentanyl and other drugs, authorities said<\/a> in September.\n <\/p>\n \n The Drug Enforcement Administration had joined<\/a> the investigation into Panettiere\u2019s death, and CNN has asked the agency whether its investigation remains open.\n <\/p>\n \n Sgt. Diana Munoz, a spokesperson for the Greenville Police Department, told CNN she couldn\u2019t speak on whether any other agency is still looking into the death.\n <\/p>\n \n Panettiere was found in cardiac arrest<\/a> and medics were unable to resuscitate her. She was found in the Airbnb apartment, sitting with her legs crossed and her face down, according to a coroner\u2019s report obtained by CNN.\n <\/p>\n \n Two men \u2014 later identified by police as Panettiere\u2019s boyfriend and his brother \u2014 discovered her on a sofa bed. Panettiere was purple, the coroner\u2019s report says. One man administered two doses of Narcan and called 911 after she remained unresponsive.\n <\/p>\n \n One of the men said he didn\u2019t know Panettiere had used illegal drugs in recent days, but \u201cshe was very good at hiding them,\u201d the coroner\u2019s report said.\n <\/p>\n \n The actress had publicly shared her struggles with early fame<\/a> and her battles with mental health<\/a> and addiction.\n <\/p>\n \n This year, Panettiere addressed the challenges in a memoir<\/a> and spoke publicly<\/a> about losing her brother<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n Her career was also making a comeback, with her latest film released in January.\n <\/p>\n \n This story has been updated with additional information.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in South Carolina closed the investigation into actress Hayden Panettiere\u2019s death after it was determined she died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-950054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}