Hayden Panettiere sought help from a liver specialist during her addiction struggles.
Hayden Panettiere sought help from a liver specialist
The actress revealed in a new interview that by the time she “hit 30” in 2019, she was seeing a doctor for jaundice, which caused her eyes to turn yellow, a “swollen” face, and hair loss.
“My body was like, ‘Enough,'” she told Women’s Health in her April 2023 cover story.
Hayden Panettiere sought help from a liver specialist
“I had to go to a liver specialist. I was holding on to weight that wasn’t normally there. My hair was thin and coming out in clumps.”
Panettiere, now 33, was also struggling with “sleep deprivation” at the time, which affected her “motor skills,” “ability to sleep” and “overall health.”
She went into treatment two years later, giving herself a “blank canvas to work with” after “eight months of intensive therapy.”
Hayden Panettiere sought help from a liver specialist
When the “Heroes” alum got a breast reduction in 2022, she felt like her “body belonged to” her again.
That same year, Panettiere revealed her secret addiction to opioids and alcohol in a People interview.
The “Nashville” star recalled being given “happy pills” for the first time at the age of 15, with the drugs and alcohol subsequently becoming “something [she] almost couldn’t live without.”
Panettiere got sober during her pregnancy with daughter Kaya, now 8, but fell off the wagon after giving birth to her and Wladimir Klitschko’s little one in 2014.
The “Scream” star, who relinquished custody of Kaya amid her addiction, is now “grateful to be part of this world again and … will never take it for granted.”
Earlier this month, she gave a sobriety update while speaking to the New York Times about her brother Jansen Panettiere’s February death
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