Jansen Panettiere was reportedly struggling with addiction before his death. As we’ve been reporting, Hayden Panettiere‘s younger brother was found dead in his apartment in New York on Sunday.
Jansen’s friends grew concerned after he never showed up for a scheduled business meeting that day. When his pals went to check on the 28-year-old, they found him unresponsive in a chair, called 911, and began CPR.
However, their efforts were in vain — he was pronounced dead on arrival by EMTs. While an official cause of death has not been determined, sources have come forward to shed some light on what life had been like for Jansen before this tragedy.
According to Dailymail.com on Wednesday, the Even Stevens alum’s neighbors shared they had assumed he passed away from an overdose — as he had been addicted to opioids, believed to be Oxycodone, for years.
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