Hayden Panettiere’s estranged mom, Lesley Vogel, launched a damning assertion following the dying of her solely daughter on Sunday.
“I believe Hayden was an amazingly gifted individual in so many departments and I believe younger individuals who develop up within the leisure business — it’s a battle and it’s a really difficult business and it’s common for them to sadly discover the mistaken path,” Vogel mentioned in an unique interview with NBC Information, printed Tuesday.
“I believe it turns into very troublesome to be true to your self, and I believe Hayden sadly misplaced her manner,” Vogel mentioned.
“I want it had been completely different,” she added, “as a result of she had many unimaginable attributes.”
Vogel, who additionally misplaced her son Jansen in 2023 to coronary heart issues, mentioned via tears to NBC that she feels Hayden is “along with her brother and so they’re at peace.”
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Vogel additionally hit out at Panettiere’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, who was with the actor on the time of her dying.
“This individual in her life that we’ve been making an attempt to eliminate for fairly a while was along with her at her dying and that was Brian Hickerson,” she mentioned.
Hickerson and Panettiere’s turbulent relationship was full of medicine, alcohol and Hickerson’s abuse, which the actor wrote about in her lately launched memoir. The “Heroes” star wrote that, as soon as throughout a combat, he busted “up my face so badly I don’t go away the home for weeks.”
Each Brian Hickerson and his brother, Zach, had been in an condominium with Panettiere in Greenville, South Carolina, when she went into cardiac arrest. An individual with data of the scenario instructed The New York Instances it was attributable to an obvious drug overdose.
Vogel and Panettiere had been reportedly estranged on the time of her dying, which was made sophisticated by the actor’s latest memoir and her subsequent press tour.
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Throughout an interview with podcaster Jay Shetty in Might, the “Keep in mind the Titans” actor mentioned that her mother, who was as soon as an actor herself, pushed her into appearing at solely 8 months previous. The connection between the 2 broke down additional when Panettiere, then 19, requested Vogel to step down as her supervisor.
“I mentioned to her, ‘I don’t need us to work collectively anymore. I simply need you to be my mother,’” she instructed Shetty. Vogel reportedly responded “You owe me,” to her daughter.
Panettiere instructed Shetty that her mother simply wished cash, not a relationship.
“The truth that she didn’t care to have a relationship with me was a tricky tablet to swallow,” the “Heroes” star mentioned.
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Vogel later responded to her daughter’s claims in an interview with Web page Six in Might, saying “the current drama is partially to promote books” and that she was “no-contact” with Panettiere.
“After 20 years of trauma, I took the recommendation of execs and selected the no-contact route,” Vogel mentioned. “As many mother and father of leisure youngsters [know], we’re all too conversant in the painful commentary of watching the self-destructive paths they often select.”
“Sadly, that is out of our management. You can’t save somebody who doesn’t need to be saved,” she added.
