This is gut-wrenching… Hayden Panettiere is opening up her decision to give her husband, Wladimir Klitschko, full custody of their daughter Kaya — and it turns out it wasn’t much of her decision at all!
The actress sat down for a very revealing chat with Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, and guest host Kelly Osbourne on this week’s episode of Red Table Talk in which she dove into her past struggles with substance abuse and the impact it had on her child. Related: Kanye West Posted WHAT About Kim Kardashian?!?! As we’ve reported, before the Nashville star seriously sought help for her addictions, she made the heartbreaking decision to give full custody of her only child to her ex.
But it turns out, it wasn’t her initial plan. The 33-year-old admitted: At this point, she and the professional boxer were used to trading time with Kaya, and so the Heroes alum didn’t think much of sending her to Ukraine in 2018 (Wladimir’s home country) for what she thought was a visit, she explained: Adrienne then chimed in for clarification, asking: We’ve definitely heard Hayden say something similar in the past, so we get the confusion!
The actress explained that her plan was also to go work on herself, but she expected to have the same amount of contact with her daughter once she was healthier.
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