Late actress Hayden Panettiere struggled for years with mental health and drug addiction before her tragic death at age 36.
The former child star opened up about her opioid addiction and alcohol abuse in 2022, telling People, "I was on top of the world and I ruined it."
"I'd think I hit rock bottom, but then there's that trap door that opens," she said at the time. "I put a lot of work into myself and I had to be willing to be incredibly honest."
The Heroes star revealed that she had suffered severely from postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter Kaya - whom she shares with ex Wladimir Klitschko.
"I wasn't OK," she wrote in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, which was released May 19. "I had to figure out how to bond with her. It felt like an insurmountable task, and I was only on the first day."
She added, "It wasn't panic that was sitting in my chest. It was nothing. A total blackout of emotion, like my soul was dead."
According to the Remember the Titans star, she "needed a drink to function," which led to her being written out of her hit TV series, Nashville.
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