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<\/p>\n Hayden Panettiere’s Ex
\n New Memoir Could Help Halt Future Abuse \u2026
\n I Did Ask for 1 Story to Be Left Out Though<\/p>\n
\n Published
\n May 12, 2026
\n 1:45 PM PDT
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\n Updated
\n May 12, 2026
\n 3:07 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n
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Hayden Panettiere<\/a>‘s ex Brian Hickerson<\/a> says reading about his abusive relationship in her upcoming memoir was brutal … but he also thinks alleged abusers need to hear stories like his the most.<\/p>\n Hickerson spoke with TMZ’s Charlie Neff ahead of the release of Hayden’s memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning” … and admitted there was one particularly dark moment from their relationship he requested her to leave out of the book — but it made the final cut anyway.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n According to Brian, the passage details a drunken incident where he allegedly threatened to throw a phone at Hayden. He recalled telling her, “I’ll give you 10 seconds to run as fast as you can before I throw it at you.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brian admitted to Charlie, “Who wants to read something about themselves like that?” … before adding, “I did it. I did it.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The ex-couple dated on and off from 2018<\/a> to 2022<\/a> … and their relationship exploded into public legal drama … with Brian arrested<\/a> multiple times over alleged domestic violence incidents involving Hayden. He pleaded no contest to felony charges, was sentenced to jail time and probation, and was hit with a five-year restraining order<\/a> requiring him to stay away from her.<\/p>\n Brian also pushed the conversation beyond survivors … saying people accused of abuse should also be forced to confront these stories head-on. He believes domestic violence education comes too late in life … adding he was never taught what abuse actually looked like growing up.<\/p>\n And in a striking moment of self-awareness, Hickerson suggested Hayden’s memoir could end up serving as a warning manual for the very kind of person he became … proof that sometimes, it really does take one to know one.<\/p>\n Check out Charlie’s full interview with Brian … he talks about how he still has love for the actress, what their current status is, and what his thoughts are on Hayden’s ex-fianc\u00e9 and baby daddy Wladimir Klitschko<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere’s Ex New Memoir Could Help Halt Future Abuse \u2026 I Did Ask for 1 Story to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-445677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"brian-hickerson-Hayden-Panettiere-getty-1\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7e4b7d13696b4fce8b0309687def456a_md.jpg\")
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