Hayden Panettiere has discussed her difficult decision to relinquish custody of her daughter, Kaya, to her former partner, Wladimir Klitschko.
In 2018, the Scream star signed papers to give her ex full custody of their seven-year-old, allowing Kaya to live in Ukraine with him as she battled addiction.
The 33-year-old described the move as the most “heartbreaking thing” she’s ever done, during an appearance on the latest episode of Red Table Talk.
In a clip obtained by People, Adrienne Banfield Norris asked Panettiere: “You thought this was an agreement that you came to, that you felt it was best that your daughter be with her dad?”To which, the TV star replied: “At first it was not, because it wasn’t a discussion. “If he had come to me and said, ‘I think, because of where you’re at right now and your struggles that you’re having, it would be good for her to be over here with me for a while…’“If I had probably had enough of a conversation, I would’ve said, okay, that makes sense, I get it, I’ll come there to visit and stuff like that. “Because of the way that it was done, it was very upsetting.
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