Hayden Panettiere Dead: Autopsy Confirms “No Signs of Trauma” in Cause

Indeed, while Panettiere shared her team had initially encouraged her drug use to make her “more peppy” in interviews during her rise to fame, she shared it was also what “ruined” her career. 

And that’s exactly why she came forward with her battle. 

“I love being in a position now to be able to help people who are struggling with it still, and let know that there is a time, a period of time when you get over the hill,” Panettiere said in an interview with People in 2024. “It is there. Recovery is real. It can happen.”

As she put it, “Long as you remember to stay on the same path, to stay sober and keep on doing those things that make you happy, make you feel healthy, make you laugh…you can be happier than you’ve ever been before in your life.”

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