Overview
- Panettiere, 36, told Jay Shetty’s podcast Monday that at 18 she was led into a small room on a boat and placed in bed next to an undressed, very famous man.
- She said a woman she had trusted as a protector physically put her on the bed beside him.
- Panettiere said she waited for the woman to leave, fled the room, and hid on the boat because there was no safe way to get off in open water.
- She described feeling shocked and only recognizing the danger once isolated at sea, adding that at 18 she believed she was mature but now says she lacked full awareness.
- The account appears in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, due May 19, and outlets report no named suspects or criminal complaints tied to the boat episode.