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Hayden Panettiere Details Child-Star ‘Grooming’ as Mother Publicly Disputes Her Account

The disclosures sharpen a long-running rift with her former manager mother during the push for a May 19 memoir.

Overview

  • Panettiere, in interviews published Thursday, said she was groomed and pushed into acting from infancy, which she links to later substance abuse and people‑pleasing.
  • Her mother, Lesley Vogel, told Page Six she chose no contact after “20 years of trauma” and argued the current attention is partly to sell books.
  • Panettiere says she ended their business relationship at 19 while filming Heroes and recalls Vogel replying “You owe me” before their relationship fractured.
  • In a new profile for The Times reported by Deadline, she describes an unsupportive Nashville set and alleges an 18-year-old boat ordeal with an unnamed older man, with no public complaints or named suspects reported.
  • The memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, is set for May 19 and covers addiction, postpartum depression, and her 2018 decision to give full custody of her daughter to Wladimir Klitschko.