{"id":603423,"date":"2026-08-24T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603423\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:58:14","slug":"panettieres-life-went-downhill-after-fame-mother-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603423\/","title":{"rendered":"Panettiere’s life went ‘downhill’ after fame, mother says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hayden Panettiere’s mother said she saw her daughter “going downhill” after she became a star on the TV series Heroes.<\/p>\n

The actress, who also starred in Nashville and the Scream franchise, died aged 36 at her home in Greenville, South Carolina, on 16 August.<\/a><\/p>\n

Panettiere\u2019s mother, Lesley Vogel, became emotional as she spoke about her daughter\u2019s passing on Good Morning America, saying she is “still not grasping this is real”.<\/p>\n

She then got up from her chair and said she “needed a minute” before continuing with the interview.<\/p>\n

Vogel said her relationship with Panettiere changed after she found fame on Heroes.<\/p>\n

\"SYDNEY,
\n Hayden Panettiere with her mother Lesley Vogel on a yacht on Sydney Harbour in 2009<\/p>\n

She said: “I would say Hayden had a very happy life up until she got Heroes at 16. Here she was, the star of a major TV series, but I would say, at about 17, I started seeing her going downhill.<\/p>\n

“As she got older, it wasn\u2019t my voice anymore. I wasn\u2019t in charge of her choices. I tried to give her the best advice I could. But again, any young person, teen, they want to be liberated and I get that.”<\/p>\n

In her memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning, Panettiere claimed that, at 19, she told Vogel that she no longer wanted her to manage her career and Vogel replied: “You owe me.”<\/p>\n

Vogel, a former actress, denied this, saying: “I know I didn\u2019t say what she said I said.”<\/p>\n

Panettiere was mother to an 11-year-old daughter named Kaya with former boxer Wladimir Klitschko, who received full custody of her.<\/p>\n

Vogel said: “The situation with Hayden and Vlad and their daughter, that was a very difficult period for her.<\/p>\n

“Vlad had taken over custody for safety, in my opinion. She just couldn\u2019t keep those demons away.”<\/p>\n

Vogel also responded to criticism from people, including CBS Mornings host Gayle King, who felt she was focusing too much on her daughter\u2019s struggles in the wake of her death.<\/p>\n

She said: “I would say to the haters out there, you don\u2019t have a right to tell me how I mourn the loss of my second child. That\u2019s my domain.”<\/p>\n

\"Lesley
\nLesley Vogel, Hayden Panettiere and Jansen Panettiere<\/p>\n

Police in Greenville said Panettiere, who had struggled with addiction and her mental health, was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest, with “no signs of foul play or suspicious circumstances”.<\/p>\n

Vogel had Panettiere with her ex-husband Alan Lee “Skip” Panettiere.<\/p>\n

They were also parents to a son, Jansen, who died aged 28 in 2023 from aortic valve complications arising from an enlarged heart.<\/p>\n

Asked about losing both of her children, Vogel said: “I think you just have to find that inner strength.<\/p>\n

“I have been knocked down throughout my life and I\u2019m not complaining because I have the strength to get back up. It\u2019s not if we fall, it\u2019s how we get back up, that defines who we are.”<\/p>\n

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