{"id":648313,"date":"2026-05-17T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648313\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:08:11","slug":"hayden-panettiere-recalls-unsupportive-nashville-set-former-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648313\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere Recalls Unsupportive ‘Nashville’ Set & Former Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHayden Panettiere<\/a> is recalling her time on Nashville<\/a>, saying the set of the ABC musical drama was unsupportive and isolating.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new interview with The Times U.K.<\/a> tied to the release of her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, the child star also reflected on numerous negative experiences growing up in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s just shocking to me how little empathy people had,\u201d she said of Nashville. \u201cThere were plenty of people who made the choice to not protect me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn her book, she adds of tabloid hysteria and the paparazzi at the time, \u201cI was raw meat laid out for a bunch of hyenas to devour every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPanettiere also alleged that during the press run for Heroes<\/a>, when she was 16, one of her team members gave her a \u201chappy pill\u201d to boost her energy. She recalled that the pills worked and she soon began taking them habitually, though she now believes they were amphetamines. \u201cI was so used to wholeheartedly trusting the team that was around me,\u201d she said. \u201cIf they told me to jump, I jumped.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn other harrowing instances, Panettiere said an Oscar winner once exposed himself to her at an industry party and a close female friend once invited her, then 18, onto a superyacht<\/a>, only to abandon her to a famous man, who was undressed.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was as close to being human trafficked as I have ever experienced, especially being on a boat in the middle of the ocean,\u201d she recalled. \u201cYou were stuck and you realize, \u2018Oh, this is why they choose to do it in places like this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in the profile, Panettiere also discussed recovering from postpartum depression and her journey toward sobriety from alcoholism and substance abuse.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s when I don\u2019t have the outlet of work, it\u2019s then I go into the \u2018an idle mind is the Devil\u2019s playground,’\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis year, she appeared in\u00a0the psychological thriller Sleepwalker and said she is aiming to appear on screen in action and comedy features. \u201cThere\u2019s so much I want to do,\u201d the Scream VI actress said. \u201cI want to be creative. I want to get behind the camera. I want to direct. I want to produce.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere is recalling her time on Nashville, saying the set of the ABC musical drama was unsupportive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,103100,66995,13691],"class_list":["post-648313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hayden-panettiere","tag-heroes","tag-nashville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}