Hayden Panettiere Says Filming Nashville Was ‘Traumatizing’ as It Mirrored Actual Life Struggles

In a brand new interview with The Messenger, the actress mentioned that the fictional function she was taking part in on tv shortly began to really feel very acquainted. “Straight from the start it was like, I’m courting a soccer participant, Juliette dates a soccer participant,” she mentioned of her character.

“After which they turned her into an alcoholic. Then, they turned to her leaving her daughter and going to this loopy [place] in Europe,” Panettiere continued. “And it was very apparent … they weren’t doing their homework. They weren’t creating new story traces.”

“They have been simply taking a look at my life and going, ‘Oh, let’s simply take what she’s going by and put our little spin on it,'” she continued. “After which, ta-da! It is carried out and carried out.”

Because the present wrapped in 2018, Panettiere has been open about her struggles with alcohold and drug dependancy, which led to her daughter Kaya shifting to Ukraine for some time together with her ex, Wladimir Klitschko.

The storylines hewed so near her private life that the actress mentioned it was “very traumatizing.” She added, “I felt like I used to be performing out my very own life.”

She mentioned the tip of that present in 2018 helped open her eyes to lots of issues that have been improper in her life, together with the workforce of individuals she had round her. Describing these years as lonely, Panettiere mentioned she realized, “folks aren’t making an attempt to guard me. They’re making an attempt to guard themselves.”

Noting that a few of these folks had represented her since she was 13 years outdated, Panettiere mentioned she felt she’d been “skilled my complete life to belief and hearken to and take recommendation from” them. “It was a terrifying factor to do to lastly make that change,” she mentioned.

After a number of years of private struggles, Panettiere bought sober in 2021. She informed Pink Desk Speak the next 12 months that she felt “horribly responsible” when her daughter moved to Ukraine to reside together with her father, however referred to as it “essentially the most unselfish factor” she might do on the time so she might work on herself. Kaya nonetheless lives together with her father.

Generally, Panettiere mentioned she wonders how her life may need turned out in another way had she not taken Nashville so shortly after her breakout function on Heroes. “If I hadn’t had carried out that — if I hadn’t accepted Nashville and had all that point to be concerned with different tasks — then the place would I be now?” she mused.

“It took six years of my profession after I was at my bodily prime, my psychological, my all the things, that I simply marvel what it could have been like within the hiatuses, [if I] did one undertaking or movie, or was inspired to try this,” she contemplated. “The place would I be right now?”

Following Nashville, Panettiere additionally took a break from her performing profession whereas engaged on her sobriety. Following a voice cameo in 2022’s fifth Scream movie, she marked her official return to performing by reprising her function as Kirby Reed within the 2023 sequel Scream VI.