{"id":823472,"date":"2026-08-23T20:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823472\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:20:16","slug":"hayden-panettieres-mom-slams-gayle-king-after-host-criticized-her-response-to-daughters-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/823472\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere\u2019s mom slams Gayle King after host criticized her response to daughter\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hayden Panettiere\u2019s estranged mother, Lesley Vogel<\/a>, has hit back at Gayle King after the CBS Mornings host criticized her response to her daughter\u2019s death.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Heroes star died August 16 after being found in cardiac arrest<\/a> at a Greenville, South Carolina, apartment. She was 36.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very, very hurt and deeply disappointed in the lack of professionalism, the lack of compassion in slamming someone who\u2019s lost two children, without even a modicum of consideration,\u201d Vogel told the Daily Mail<\/a> about King\u2019s criticism of her.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one reached out to me before,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s shameful. It\u2019s unconscionable to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted King\u2019s representatives for comment.<\/p>\n

\"HaydenHayden Panettiere\u2019s mother, Lesley Vogel (center), hit back at Gayle King (right) after the TV host criticized her reaction to Panettiere\u2019s death (Getty)<\/p>\n

After Panettiere\u2019s death, Vogel told NBC News: \u201cI think Hayden was an amazingly talented person in so many departments and I think young people who grow up in the entertainment industry \u2014 it is a struggle and it’s a very challenging industry and it\u2019s not unusual for them to sadly find the wrong path.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it becomes very difficult to be true to yourself, and I think Hayden sadly lost her way, and I wish it were different,\u201d Vogel continued. \u201cI wish she had stayed true to herself because she had many incredible attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n

She concluded: \u201cI just feel that she\u2019s with her brother and they\u2019re at peace.\u201d Panettiere\u2019s younger brother Jansen died from an enlarged heart in 2023 at the age of 28<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On CBS Mornings, King lashed out at Vogel\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n

\"Panettiere\u2019sPanettiere\u2019s mom said after her daughter\u2019s death: \u2018I think Hayden sadly lost her way, and I wish it were different\u2019 (Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, guys, you read this and all I can think is, \u2018Thanks, Mom, for nothing,\u2019\u201d she said during the broadcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me so sad of the opportunity that you have after your daughter\u2019s death that that\u2019s what you choose to leave us with,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n

The Nashville star<\/a> spoke openly about her strained relationship with her mother, who was her manager during her rise to fame as a child star. The two were estranged at the time of Panettiere\u2019s death, and the actor had told podcaster Jay Shetty in May that Vogel \u201cdidn\u2019t care to have a relationship with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vogel served as Panettiere\u2019s manager from the time she was just an infant. <\/p>\n

The actor opened up about her relationship with her mother<\/a> in an interview with The Independent in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a very complex person,\u201d Panettiere said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to offend anybody, or drag anybody, or hurt anyone\u2019s feelings. But I knew that if I wasn\u2019t honest about my relationship with her, I wouldn\u2019t be being honest at all. She\u2019s a huge part of the person I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Panettiere cut professional ties with Vogel at the age of 19, while working on Heroes. In her memoir, released earlier this year, she said she asked Vogel to meet her in her trailer and begged her to just be her mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I wanted was a dynamic that didn\u2019t involve contracts, producers, boho tops, or drinking wine at industry parties,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Vogel, Panettiere claimed, \u201cpicked up her purse, clenched her jaw, and looked straight at me. \u2018You owe me,\u2019 she answered. Then she turned around and walked out of my trailer … I knew I\u2019d done the right thing, but I sensed something in me had died.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[348990,88,348991],"class_list":["post-823472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-348990","tag-entertainment","tag-eos1dmkii-219754"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823472","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=823472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}