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Hayden Panettiere reveals why she 'desperately needed' huge break from acting amid troubled personal life


Hayden Panettiere shared that her unplanned four-year acting break proved to be advantageous to her wellbeing.

In the following years, she publicly discussed her struggles with alcohol and drug addiction, which led to her daughter Kaya, nine, living in Ukraine with her former partner, boxer Wladimir Klitschko, 49. In September 2024, she opened up to People about the death of her younger brother Jansen following his shock passing at age 28 due to an undiagnosed heart condition in February 2023 called cardiomegaly. In regards to her mental health following her brother's death, Hayden said, 'I thought that people would have empathy, was going to be the only thing that was there, but I had no idea how my body, my mind, was going to react to grief.

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