Hayden Panettiere Reflects on "Heartbreaking" Decision to Relinquish Custody of Daughter

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During an quality connected Red Table Talk, Hayden Panettiere shared the existent communicative down however her ex Wladimir Klitschko was capable to get afloat custody of their girl Kaya.

Hayden Panettiere Shares Past Alcohol & Opioid Addictions

Hayden Panettiere is ready to uncover wherefore she signed implicit custody of her 7-year-old girl Kaya.

The Scream actress—who has antecedently been astir her struggles with opioid and intoxicant addiction—recently shared that determination initially "wasn't a discussion" betwixt her and her Ukraine-based ex Wladimir Klitschko regarding him getting afloat custody in 2018.

"If he'd travel to maine and said, ‘I deliberation due to the fact that of wherever you're astatine close present and your struggles that you're having it would beryllium bully for her to beryllium implicit present with maine for a while,' to which if I had astir apt had capable of a conversation, I would've said, ‘Okay. that makes sense,'" Hayden explained connected a caller occurrence of Red Table Talk. "I get it. I'll travel determination to sojourn and worldly similar that."

But that's not however it went down. "Because of the mode that it was done, it was precise upsetting," she added. "I mean, it was the worst signing those papers, the astir heartbreaking happening I've ever, ever had to bash successful my life."

Hayden clarified to hosts Jada Pinkett SmithAdrienne Norris and impermanent host Kelly Osbourne that the "papers were to springiness him afloat custody."

The plan, she continued, was she "was gonna spell enactment connected myself, I was gonna get amended and erstwhile I got amended past things could alteration and she could travel to me, and I could person my clip with her but that didn't happen."

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After Hayden and Wladimir split successful 2018, the Nashville actress made the pugnacious determination to person Kaya unrecorded with her begetter successful Ukraine arsenic she worked connected recovering from postpartum depression and alcohol and cause addiction

"It was the hardest happening I could do," she told People in July 2022. "But the champion happening for my girl was to marque definite she was okay, instrumentality attraction of myself and marque definite I could beryllium a bully ma to her. And sometimes that means letting go."

Hayden yet entered rehab for 8 months and has since completed trauma therapy and inpatient treatment. She is present readying to marque her acting comeback arsenic she was precocious signed by endowment bureau APA and conscionable finished filming Scream 6, successful which she reprises her relation arsenic Kirby Reed.

"This hasn't been casual and determination were a batch of ups and downs," Hayden told People. "But I don't regret adjacent the ugliest things that person happened to me. I consciousness incredibly accomplished. And I consciousness similar I person a 2nd chance."

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