Overview
- In a CBS interview promoting This Is Me: A Reckoning, Panettiere said a traumatic delivery almost cost her life and that severe postpartum depression set in right after her daughter was born.
- She said her 11-year-old, Kaya, lives in Ukraine with her father, retired boxer Wladimir Klitschko, and that they stay close through frequent visits and daily FaceTime calls.
- Panettiere said she signed over custody to Klitschko in 2018 after seeking treatment, explaining that a facility addressed her alcoholism but did not treat her postpartum depression.
- In a separate account reported by PerthNow, she said doctors delivered her by C-section and that she survived an infection and seven blood transfusions during the birth.
- The revelations come as the book is published and follow public pushback from her mother, Lesley Vogel, who has criticized how their relationship is portrayed.