Hayden Panettiere Opened Up About Her Opioid and Alcohol Addictions

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Remember the Titans (2000) and Raising Helen (2004), just opened up about her opioid and alcohol addiction, which went on for years. “I was doing anything to make me feel happy for a moment,” she said in an exclusive interview with . "Then I'd feel worse than I did before.

I was in a cycle of self-destruction."Her addiction, she said, began when she was a teenager but spiraled out of control after she suffered from following the birth of her daughter Kaya, now 7. "I was on top of the world and I ruined it," the actor told People.Panettiere told the outlet that she was only 15 years old when “someone on her team” handed her “happy pills” before walking a red carpet. "They were to make me peppy during interviews," she said. "I had no idea that this was not an appropriate thing, or what door that would open for me when it came to my addiction." "I never had the feeling that I wanted to harm my child, but I didn't want to spend any time with her," said. "There was just this gray color in my life." In 2018, Panettiere sent her daughter to live with her father (Panettiere's ex Wladimir Klitschko) in Ukraine.

People reports that Panettiere underwent treatment including trauma therapy and inpatient treatment over the past year. “I put a lot of work into myself and I had to be willing to be incredibly honest.

This hasn't been easy and there were a lot of ups and downs," she said. "But I don't regret even the ugliest things that have happened to me.