Hayden Panettiere
That’s why filming a series was traumatizing for her
Hayden Panettiere starred in the series “Nashville” between 2012 and 2018.
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Hayden Panettiere opens up about her traumatizing time on the series “Nashville” in a new interview.
“I look back on it more with curiosity than anything else,” Panettiere says the US website “The Messenger”. “If I hadn’t done that – if I hadn’t accepted ‘Nashville’ and had all this time to work on other projects – where would I be now?” the 34-year-old asks herself.
There have been “such great things in my personal life in Nashville,” including playing her role. At the same time, working on the series was “very traumatizing” because she had the feeling that she was playing her own life in it.
“They just looked at my life”
In the summer of 2022, Panettiere, who has a daughter with Klitschko, spoke about how she had long struggled with alcohol and opioid addiction problems as well as postpartum depression. In 2018, the American made the decision to send her daughter to her father in Ukraine. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” she told People magazine. “But I wanted to be a good mother to her – and sometimes that means letting her go.”
In “Nashville” she played the role of Juliette Barnes for six seasons in the 2010s, who also suffered from postpartum depression, among other things. In the new interview, Panettiere also shows further parallels and criticizes those responsible.
“Right from the start, I was dating a football player and then Juliette was dating a football player. And then they made her an alcoholic.” Then the character left her daughter and went to another country – “and it was very obvious… They didn’t do their homework. They didn’t come up with new storylines. They just looked at my life and said, ‘ Oh, let’s just take what she’s going through and put our little spin on it.'”
The long working days of up to 20 hours on set also had a negative impact on Panettiere’s well-being. “I didn’t have time to take care of myself and think about and process the pain I was experiencing physically and emotionally.” She simply wanted to push everything away and distract herself from the fact that it would start again the next day. She also cried a lot back then.
According to the report, Panettiere will appear in three US cities in February with the program “A Conversation With Hayden Panettiere” and talk about her life. She hopes to be able to help other people.
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