Hayden Panettiere is opening up about how her persona arc at the CMT sequence Nashville reflected her personal non-public existence.
“Straight from the beginning it was like, I’m dating a football player, [and then my character] Juliette dates a football player,” Panettiere, 34, who dated NFL superstar Scotty McKnight from 2011 to 2012, stated all through a Thursday, January 25, interview with The Messenger.
She endured: “And then they turned her into an alcoholic. Then, they turned to her leaving her daughter … and it was very obvious … they weren’t doing their homework. They weren’t creating new story lines. They were just looking at my life and going, ‘Oh, let’s just take what she’s going through and put our little spin on it.’ And then, ta-da! It’s done and done.”
Panettiere, who performed nation pop singer Juliette Barnes on Nashville from 2012 to 2018, has been candid about her previous struggles with opioid and alcohol dependancy. In 2018, her daughter, Kaya, went to are living in Ukraine along with her dad, Panettiere’s ex Wladimir Klitschko, whilst the actress labored on her sobriety.
The similarities between Panettiere’s non-public existence and the plot of Nashville used to be “very traumatizing,” she stated. “I felt like I was acting out my own life.”
The Scream VI superstar additionally recalled feeling “very, very alone” whilst filming the display on location within the titular town.
“My family didn’t visit a whole lot. And the team of people that I was working with at the time were not the best influence on me. And these people — some had represented me since I was 13 years old — were the kind [that] when they said, ‘Jump!,’ I jumped,” Panettiere stated. “If they said, ‘Wear this,’ I wore that. [It] was [to] the point where I never trusted my own opinion. That’s how it led me to make a lot of errors.”
After Nashville ended, Panettiere learned one of the most other folks in her nook didn’t have the purest intentions.
“People aren’t trying to protect me. They’re trying to protect themselves,” she defined. “It’s material people that I have been trained almost my entire life to trust and listen to and take advice from. It was a terrifying thing to do to finally make that switch.”
In spite of the ups and downs she’s continued within the public eye, Panettiere persisted and were given sober in 2021. Right through a September 2022 look on Crimson Desk Communicate, she spread out about feeling “horribly guilty” when her daughter first went to are living in another country with Klitschko, 47.
“I knew that the most unselfish thing I could do was to make that hard decision and just try to work on myself,” she stated. “It was the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever, ever had to do in my life.”
These days, coparenting with Klitschko remains to be “really hard with the time changes,” Panettiere advised The Messenger. On the other hand, she and her ex are in a just right position.
“[Kaya] is me. Vlad laughs, and I think it makes Vlad really happy to have a little me there. There is so much love and respect between us,” Panettiere stated. “He has a helicopter and is trying to fly helicopters so while he has her in the back, he will send me videos of her passed out listening to the Nashville soundtrack.”