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Hayden Panettiere She recalls a painful moment when she was 18 in her new memoir, This is me: the account, Which was released on Tuesday, May 19. In the book Sixth scream The actress, now 36, recalled being on a “luxury yacht” full of celebrities, when a friend asked her to “sleep” with an older, famous man. This revelation prompted fans to wonder who Hayden was talking to.
“My body no longer felt like my body,” Hayden recalled in an excerpt from her book, which also delves into her past with addiction, her struggles living in the spotlight, and her relationships and family. “Oh my god, is he naked in there?” she wrote, claiming that her trusted friend whispered to her: “I want you to sleep in bed with him,” before leaving the room.
Hayden referred to the man only as “a popular British singer-songwriter in his 30s.” She complied with her friend’s request to go to bed.
“As soon as the door closed, my survival instinct kicked in.” Heroes alum wrote in the book before revealing what she said to the unnamed man. “Look…I don’t know what she told you, but it’s not going to happen.”
Upon leaving the room, Hayden began packing her bags to leave the yacht.
“I felt like I was kicked in the face,” she wrote, referring to the betrayal she felt from her unnamed friend. “She trusted me, spoiled me and treated me like her best friend, then turned around and treated me like a call girl.”
The release of Hayden’s book comes just a week after her appearance Jay ShettyThe podcast “intentionally” discusses the memoir and, in particular, the yacht incident.
“The fact that I was 18, even though I had lived a huge life and thought I was very mature at 18…scientifically, your frontal lobe doesn’t develop until we’re 25 or 26?” Hayden noted on the May 11 episode. “So, even though I felt like I could make healthy decisions, safe decisions, I wasn’t able to be fully aware of what was happening around me.”
She added that the bedroom asked the woman to “take [her] Suddenly.”
