Hayden Panettiere is sharing more details about losing custody of her daughter, Kaya, amid her struggles with depression and addiction.
During her appearance on the 33-year-old actress sat down with Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield Norris, and guest host Kelly Osbourne where she revealed that she wasn't aware she was losing custody until her now-7-year-old was already with her ex, Wladimir Klitschko, in Ukraine.Panettiere was candid about struggling with alcohol addiction and postpartum depression during the episode, but said she had never done anything that endangered Kaya.«I was trying to tell myself that if I'm not OK, if I'm not good, then I cannot be the best mom to you,» Panettiere said. «I was going through such a hard time that I knew the most unselfish thing I could do was to make that hard decision and just try to work on myself.»«She was almost three, and it wasn't fully my decision,» Panettiere continued of losing custody. «In fact, I didn't even know it was happening until she was already over there.»When Banfield Norris noted, «You thought this was an agreement that you came to that it was best that your daughter be with her dad,» Panettiere explained the complicated situation.«At first it was not because it wasn't a discussion,» she said.
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