previously detailed her battle with alcohol and opioid addiction, told Women’s Health UK that she started seeing the serious physical side effects following her 30th birthday in 2019, “My body was like, ‘enough,'” the now 33-year-old confessed in the April issue of the publication. “‘I hit 30.
My face was swollen. I had jaundice. My eyes were yellow. I had to go to a liver specialist. I was holding on to weight that wasn’t normally there.
My hair was thin and coming out in clumps.”Panettiere told the publication that she first starting abusing alcohol after moving to Tennessee to star in the hit series “Nashville” back in 2012. “I was being told how to be and how to live by so many people in my life,” she stated. “I wanted certain decisions to be my own, and nobody could stop me.
What I put in my body was like an act of defiance.”The actress, who battled postpartum depression, told Women’s Health that her drinking “ramped up” following the birth of her daughter, Kaya, in 2014.
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