Hayden Panettiere opens up about her drug addiction in postpartum depression

From the age of 15, the date of his first red carpets, star of heroes and of Nashville uses drugs and alcohol. In the beginning, as she confided to People magazine, her team gave her little pills to power up during interviews, without her knowing what she was. Then very quickly, it’s the descent into hell, and she becomes addicted.

Hayden Panettiere: Her postpartum depression made her drug addiction worse

As she explains in the columns of the American magazine, she managed to stay sober during her pregnancy. She no alcohol and no drugs as she carried daughter Kaya in 2014, a son she had with world heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko.

But after giving birth, everything collapses:

I never felt like I wanted to hurt my daughter, but I didn’t want to spend time with her. There was this “gray color” in my life.

Hayden Panettiere for People magazine

His consumption of drugs and alcohol increases furiously, so much so that he decides to separate from his daughter’s father and send the latter to live with him in Ukraine.

I flinched when I woke up and could only function by sipping alcohol. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. But I wanted to be a good mother to her, and sometimes that means letting her go.

Hayden Panettiere for People magazine

A study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration explains, in an American report, that nearly 15% of women with postpartum depression, in the first year after the birth of their child, immerse themselves in excessive consumption and dangerous alcohol. But addiction centers in the United States complain about a lack of research into the link between substance use disorders and postpartum depression.

As for Hayden Panettiere, after contracting jaundice that forced her to be hospitalized, she managed to stop consuming alcohol or drugs and returned to the stage reprising the role of Kirby Reed in the upcoming film He shouted.