{"id":821999,"date":"2026-08-22T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821999\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:38:19","slug":"brian-hickerson-scolded-by-d-a-for-being-high-in-tmz-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821999\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Hickerson Scolded By D.A. For Being ‘High’ In TMZ Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brian Hickerson<\/a> got called on the carpet in an L.A. courtroom for being “quite high” during a recent TMZ interview, and that was enough for the judge to deny his attempt to clear his record.<\/p>\n

Hickerson had filed a motion to expunge his 2020 domestic violence case — where he beat girlfriend Hayden Panettiere<\/a> — and a judge took up the motion August 13th — three days before Hayden’s death. Hickerson and his lawyer were no-shows, but the D.A. had plenty to say.<\/p>\n

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For starters, the prosecutor noted he was arrested a year ago<\/a> while high at a restaurant in West Hollywood. PEOPLE<\/a> was first to report on the TMZ interview being used against Brian Hickerson in Court.<\/p>\n

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Then the D.A. launched into an interview Hickerson did with TMZ’s Charlie Neff<\/a> … “There is a documented interview where he speaks for 15 minutes about the abuse that’s been documented in his victim’s best-selling book, and he makes several admissions about that.”<\/p>\n

The D.A. has an observation … “And more significantly to his request today, he is quite high on what appears to be a stimulant, notwithstanding his lawyer’s representations that he is seeking expungement because he is now sober.”<\/p>\n

And the D.A. drops the hammer … “He is very — very clearly not sober,” referring to his appearance in Neff’s interview.<\/p>\n


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The judge denied the petition.<\/p>\n

As we reported, Brian’s brother told TMZ when he entered the apartment where Brian and Hayden were staying and found her unresponsive, Brian administered Narcan<\/a>. It’s telling he had Narcan on hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Hickerson got called on the carpet in an L.A. courtroom for being “quite high” during a recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-821999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821999","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=821999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}