{"id":600720,"date":"2026-08-22T01:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600720\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:06:12","slug":"hayden-panettieres-boyfriend-brian-hickerson-was-arrested-twice-in-los-angeles-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600720\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere’s Boyfriend Brian Hickerson Was Arrested Twice in Los Angeles in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hayden Panettiere<\/a>‘s boyfriend, Brian Hickerson<\/a>, was arrested twice last year in Los Angeles … prosecutors revealed in open court during a hearing days before her death.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal … last month, Brian filed a petition to expunge his domestic violence arrest from his record. In 2021, he pled no contest to two felony counts of corporal injury to a spouse\/cohabitant and was sentenced to 45 days in jail and 4 years of probation, and he had to fulfill other requirements as well.<\/p>\n

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Brian petitioned the court, claiming he’d met his obligations under the law … and he wanted the felonies taken off his record … a motion prosecutors opposed.<\/p>\n

During a court hearing last Thursday — which neither Hickerson nor his attorney attended — PEOPLE<\/a> reports prosecutors strongly opposed expunging the record … citing Brian’s alleged drug use and two different arrests that took place last year in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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According to the outlet, Brian was arrested on August 2 and August 6 in 2025. Prosecutors declined to prosecute him after the first arrest due to insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n

However, prosecutors say they charged Brian with one misdemeanor count of being under the influence of a controlled substance … but he entered a diversion program. He completed 10 Narcotics Anonymous sessions, and a judge dismissed the case. As for expunging his record … a judge denied the request at the hearing.<\/p>\n

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Worth noting … an interview we did<\/a> with Brian back in May was used by the prosecution to support their claim that he wasn’t sober.<\/p>\n

Hayden died<\/a> just three days after this court hearing … and we’ve confirmed Brian administered Narcan<\/a> to her. Narcan is an important detail because it’s used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.<\/p>\n

It appears Hayden and Brian were traveling with Narcan or picked some up shortly after arriving in South Carolina on Saturday … because they had it with them in their Airbnb on Sunday when she became unresponsive and died.<\/p>\n

The presence of Narcan also suggests Hayden and\/or Brian were struggling with substance abuse … and now we know Brian was charged with a drug offense a little over a year before her apparent overdose and had been going to Narcotics Anonymous sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere‘s boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, was arrested twice last year in Los Angeles … prosecutors revealed in open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-600720","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\/600720","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=600720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}