Nashville drew on her real-life experiences with alcoholism for storylines, describing the process as “traumatising”.The actress spoke to The Messenger about her perception of the way the show’s narrative developed, noting that it had a detrimental effect on her own well-being.“Straight from the beginning, it was like, I’m dating a football player, [and then] Juliette dates a football player,” Panettiere said. “And then they turned her into an alcoholic.
Then they turned to her leaving her daughter and going to this crazy [place] in Europe, and it was very obvious…They weren’t doing their homework.
They weren’t creating new storylines. 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.”The actress, who has previously been open about her struggles with addiction, added: “I didn’t have time to take care of myself [and] to think about and go through the pain I was experiencing physically [and] emotionally.
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