Hayden Panettiere’s storyline on Nashville hit somewhat too near house for her…
In an interview with The Messenger on Thursday, the 34-year-old actress received candid about how her character arc on the favored sequence eerily mirrored her personal life – to the purpose the place filming turned very traumatic for her! For those that don’t know, Hayden portrayed Juliette Barnes, a rising nation music singer within the titular singer who struggles together with her private life and fame. From the very starting of the present, her character started to expertise a number of what she went by IRL, together with combating substance abuse and coping with postpartum despair after her daughter was born.
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They even had her character date a soccer participant when real-life Hayden turned romantically concerned with NFL star Scotty McKnight! Naturally, her time on Nashville turned “traumatizing” since felt like she “was acting out my own life” on a regular basis:
“Straight from the beginning, it was like, I’m dating a football player, [and then] Juliette dates a football player. And then they turned her into an alcoholic. Then they turned to her leaving her daughter and going to this crazy [place] in Europe, and it was very obvious. They weren’t doing their homework. They weren’t creating new storylines. They were just looking at my life and going, ‘Oh, let’s just take what she’s going through and put our little spin on it.’ And then, ta-da! It’s done and done.”
Jeez…
Having to re-experience the troublesome moments in her life by her character whereas working 12- to 20-hour days on set ended up taking an enormous toll on her well-being:
“I didn’t have time to take care of myself [and] to think about and go through the pain I was experiencing physically [and] emotionally. I just wanted to drum it out and watch mindless television and great shows. Anything to keep my mind off of that because I knew that next day I was going to be back at it again. I was like, tear central. I don’t even think on a soap opera that I cried as much [as I did] on Nashville.”
It’s heartbreaking how horrible filming had been for Hayden. What made the state of affairs worse for the Heroes alum? She remembered feeling “very, very alone” when engaged on the present within the titular metropolis, leading to her making some poor choices:
“My family didn’t visit a whole lot. And the team of people that I was working with at the time were not the best influence on me. And these people — some had represented me since I was 13 years old — were the kind [that] when they said, ‘Jump!,’ I jumped. If they said, ‘Wear this,’ I wore that. [It] was [to] the point where I never trusted my own opinion. That’s how it led me to make a lot of errors.”
Oof. Looking again, Hayden realized a number of the individuals in her life didn’t have the very best intentions:
“People aren’t trying to protect me. They’re trying to protect themselves. It’s material people that I have been trained almost my entire life to trust and listen to and take advice from. It was a terrifying thing to do to finally make that switch.”
Following these darkish instances in her life, issues fortunately appear to be wanting up for Hayden as she received sober in 2021. She can also be in a very good place together with her ex, Wladimir Klitschko, with whom she shares daughter Kaya. While co-parenting with him remains to be “really hard with the time changes” since he and their little one stay in Ukraine, Hayden stated they make it work as greatest as they will:
“[Kaya] is me. Vlad laughs, and I think it makes Vlad really happy to have a little me there. There is so much love and respect between us. He has a helicopter and is trying to fly helicopters so while he has her in the back, he will send me videos of her passed out listening to the Nashville soundtrack.”
At least there’s a vivid facet to her time on Nashville — she will get to bond together with her daughter over the music. Reactions, Perezcious readers? Let us know within the feedback beneath.
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