{"id":624778,"date":"2026-09-23T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624778\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:22:10","slug":"hayden-panettieres-cause-of-death-confirmed-as-fentanyl-overdose-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624778\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere\u2019s cause of death confirmed as fentanyl overdose \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hayden Panettiere <\/a>died from a fentanyl overdose, according to a coroner\u2019s report. <\/p>\n

Medical examiners in Greenville county in South Carolina confirmed the 36-year old actor\u2019s cause of death on Tuesday, saying: \u201cThe cause of death has been ruled as toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam, Methocarbamol and Quetiapine.\u201d<\/p>\n

They said there were \u201cno signs of trauma\u201d and \u201cthe manner of death has been ruled accident\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Greenville police department separately confirmed that no foul play was suspected. \u201cThe preliminary investigation has not indicated any signs of foul play or suspicious circumstances,\u201d the policed department said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAn acquaintance of Ms Panettiere placed the 911 call.\u201d<\/p>\n

Panettiere was in her South Carolina apartment with her boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson when she died on August 16th.<\/a><\/p>\n

A police report at the time stated that a Greenville police officer observed paramedics performing CPR on an unresponsive woman, adding: \u201cThe patient did not seem to have any obvious physical reasons to be unresponsive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI observed Zach to be very emotional while EMS were working on Hayden. Brian did not become emotional until EMS declared her officially deceased,\u201d the officer said.<\/p>\n

Following Panettiere\u2019s death, her father, Skip Panettiere, released a statement, saying: \u201cIt is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her \u2013 and to the millions who watched her on-screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Panettiere, known for her roles in television series including Heroes and Nashville, began acting at just 11 months old. She earned two Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal of country singer Juliette Barnes on Nashville.<\/p>\n

Her other projects included Scream 4 in 2011 and Scream VI in 2023.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Panettiere had a daughter, Kaya, with her former fiance, Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko. In 2018, she gave Klitschko full custody while focusing on her recovery from depression, anxiety and substance abuse.<\/p>\n

Speaking to People magazine in 2022, Panettiere said: \u201cThis hasn\u2019t been easy and there were a lot of ups and downs … But I don\u2019t regret even the ugliest things that have happened to me. I feel incredibly accomplished. And I feel like I have a second chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Hayden Panettiere obituary: Actor and singer who starred in TV series Heroes and NashvilleOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

In an interview with podcast host Jay Shetty in May, Panettiere spoke about her relationship with her daughter, saying: \u201cI will always want her here. I always miss her … I always want to have my arms wrapped around her, but that\u2019s just not the way life is right at this moment … I have faith that she is going to come to me and that we\u2019re going to have an incredible relationship and bond and friendship that a lot of parents don\u2019t get to have with their kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

That same month, Panettiere released a memoir titled This Is Me: A Reckoning, in which she detailed her struggled with fame, post-partum depression, addiction and recovery. \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere died from a fentanyl overdose, according to a coroner\u2019s report. Medical examiners in Greenville county in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-624778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}