{"id":575079,"date":"2026-08-20T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575079\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:06:11","slug":"hayden-panettieres-team-asked-for-intervention-before-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575079\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere’s Team Asked for ‘Intervention’ Before Her Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDirector Griff Furst, who helmed one of Hayden Panettiere<\/a>\u2018s final films, is revealing more details about his time working with the actress \u2014 including how her team asked him to participate in an \u201cintervention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFurst took to Instagram on Wednesday night to share a second video remembering Panettiere, who died at age 36 on Sunday<\/a>. In the video, he reflected on Panettiere\u2019s career, her struggles with addiction and the challenges child actors can face after growing up in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I think about this, it\u2019s not just a Hayden story. I grew up on movie sets, and I know a whole lot of child actors very well, and I understand what it does to somebody to grow up in front of a camera before they\u2019re old enough to consent,\u201d he said. \u201cHayden started acting when she was 11 months old, so I was rooting for Hayden to beat the addiction that she spoke about openly and publicly in her memoir.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFurst went on to reveal that Panettiere\u2019s team eventually asked him to participate in an intervention.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we wrapped, however, I stayed in touch with her team,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhat eventually got determined was that she might need an intervention and I got asked to participate. I said yes, and that intervention did not happen, at least not that I\u2019m aware of, and I wasn\u2019t leading the charge on that and it wouldn\u2019t have been appropriate for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA producer or director, no matter how certain you are that an actor or crew member is in a bad situation, you don\u2019t have the proof or the benefit of the time to verify it,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can adjust the schedule, you can collect internal reporting and you can assign a handler to make sure that that individual is being taken care of as best as they can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA Breed Apart was released in May 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tFurst previously spoke about Panettiere\u2019s time on the set of the film<\/a>, recalling that \u201csomething was off\u201d and that the \u201cenergy in her room was pretty dark\u201d when her on-again, off-again boyfriend Brian Hickerson visited her.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat I will say is my opinion, and it\u2019s about what I saw on my own set: Somebody fighting to stay sober and who deserved better company around them than what I observed,\u201d Furst said in his Wednesday Instagram video.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanettiere was recognized for her roles<\/a> in Heroes; Nashville; Ice Princess; I Love You, Beth Cooper; and the Scream franchise<\/a>. She was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest inside an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina. Officials on a 911 call were reportedly heard mentioning an \u201coverdose\u201d and \u201ccardiac arrest\u201d around the time of her death. An official cause of death has not yet been announced. ABC News reported Wednesday<\/a> that the Drug Enforcement Administration had joined the investigation into Panettiere\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanettiere had previously detailed physical abuse by Hickerson in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, which was released earlier this year<\/a>. Hickerson was sentenced to 45 days in jail in 2021 after pleading no contest to two felony counts of injuring Panettiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tFurst concluded: \u201cHollywood has an extremely sad history of stars not getting the help that they deserve. Our business has no fix for that, so our observations get written down and thrown into a production report. Then a year later, you\u2019re just reading the news. I was very lucky to work with Hayden. I wish she was still here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director Griff Furst, who helmed one of Hayden Panettiere\u2018s final films, is revealing more details about his time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,33033,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-575079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hayden-panettiere","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}