Hayden Panettiere

The Heroes star, 33, opened up about her decision in a new instalment of Red Table Talk.

Panettiere began dating the heavy-weight boxer in 2009. I was going to go work on myself, I was going to get better, and when I got better then things could change and she could come to me, and I could have my time with her. It was the worst, signing those papers, the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever, ever had to do in my life.

Hayden Panettire opens up for the first time about custody of her daughter Kaya on an episode of Red Table Talk. Category : Celebrity News.

"I was going through such a hard time that I knew the most unselfish thing I could do was to make that hard decision and just try to work on myself." "This hasn't been easy and there were a lot of ups and downs, but I don't regret even the ugliest things that have happened to me. But I wanted to be a good mom to her—and sometimes that means letting them go." "She was almost three, and it wasn't fully my decision," Panettiere continues. "I mean, it was the worst signing those papers, the most heartbreaking thing I've ever, ever had to do in my life." "At first it was not because it wasn't a discussion," Panettiere says.

Hayden Panettiere says that she planned to spend more time with daughter Kaya when she relinquished custody to ex Wladimir Klitschko.

“It was the worst, signing those papers, the most heartbreaking thing I've ever, ever had to do in my life,” Hayden Panettiere said, adding that at the time there was a plan for her to be involved in her daughter's life again. [Why are we still afraid to talk about (and embrace) women's anger?](/article/be-not-afraid-of-love-lessons-on-fear-intimacy-and-connection-mimi-zhu-extract) “There was a cover of a magazine, I was walking through the airport, it said something like, ‘Why Hayden chose to give up her daughter.’ I was just like, this is so misrepresented. “The comments that people made, or things that they assumed about my situation with my daughter were just so…heartbreaking,” she continued. [Jada Pinkett Smith](https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/topic/jada-pinkett-smith) asked the Heroes star what the public misunderstands about her. “The idea that I’m a person who would just easily throw out my child, give away my child,” Panettiere responded in a clip shared with [USA Today](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/09/27/hayden-panettiere-daughter-custody-red-table-talk/8121639001/).

Hayden Panettiere looks back on a pivotal moment in an exclusive clip from this week's Red Table Talk, telling hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield ...

"I mean, it was the worst signing those papers." But that didn't happen." "I had no idea that this was not an appropriate thing, or what door that would open for me when it came to my addiction." "I should have thought, 'That's so sketchy,' but I didn't because I trusted the person," Panettiere admits. She continued, "But things kept getting out of control [off set]. Now the star is tracing the roots of her addiction, in part, to a pivotal moment when she was just 16 years old.

On this week's episode of Red Table Talk, Hayden Panettiere opened up about relinquishing custody of her seven-year-old daughter Kaya to her ex-fiancé.

I mean, it was the worst signing those papers, the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever, ever had to do in my life.” She went on to say that the “papers were to give Klitschko full custody.” She explained, “At first it was not because it wasn’t a discussion. On this week’s episode of Red Table Talk, Hayden Panettiere opened up about relinquishing custody of her seven-year-old daughter Kaya to her ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko.

Hayden Panettiere described the “trauma reaction” her daughter, Kaya, experienced after her ex Wladimir Klitschko obtained full custody.

“If he had [spoken to me about the decision] … 13 talking gibberish.” “That’s a cry for help. a trauma reaction,” Panettiere said. [Up Next](https://pagesix.com/2022/09/28/khloe-kardashian-says-shes-a-fatty-for-eating-vitamins/)

Hayden Panettiere opened up about everything from her past addiction struggles to the custody situation of her 7-year-old daughter Kaya during the Sept.

However, that didn't stop her from dabbling in things she was "technically not supposed to do," Hayden said. "In fact, I didn't know it was happening until she was over there," Hayden said, adding she would've understood the intentions behind the move had Wladimir, who is based in Ukraine, "had enough of a conversation" with her beforehand. "I remember the first time I was caught smoking cigarette," she recalled, explaining how there were "constant phone calls" about what she contractually couldn't do. [moved to the Ukraine to be with her father](https://www.eonline.com/news/1348045/hayden-panettiere-reflects-on-heartbreaking-decision-to-relinquish-custody-of-daughter) when she was almost 3—something that Hayden said "wasn't fully my decision" at first. "I have a lot of respect for him," she said. "It's going to be a trauma." "I just wanted to escape." "There are things that I haven't spoken about that I haven't had the guts to speak about," she said. [Nashville](https://www.eonline.com/news/955542/how-connie-britton-returned-to-nashville-for-the-series-finale) was a "tough show to be on" during the height of her addiction because her character's troubled storyline [mimicked](https://www.eonline.com/news/568221/nashville-baby-alert-hayden-panettiere-s-real-life-pregnancy-is-being-written-into-the-show-but-who-s-the-father) her own struggles. It was a slow trickle." [suffering from postpartum depression](https://www.eonline.com/news/700967/hayden-panettiere-opens-up-about-her-postpartum-depression-women-need-to-know-that-they-re-not-alone), Hayden said she "did what I had seen family and the people around me do whenever they were depressed or stressed out, which was reach for a bottle." "It did give me that bit of energy," she remembered.

Hayden Panettiere talks about going into rehab for alcoholism and postpartum depression while on 'Nashville.'

After the country-music drama ended in 2018, she says during the interview, her mental health issues got worse, and she checked into a facility where she wound up staying for eight months. Another storyline was that I was pregnant on the show, and then I got postpartum depression,” Panettiere says during her appearance on the newest episode of Facebook Watch’s “I had to go to work every day and be acting out what I was truly going through.

Kaya has been living in Ukraine with her father — whose brother Vitali Klitschko is the mayor of Kyiv — since, though she reportedly left the country in ...

“I was gonna go work on myself, I was gonna get better, and when I got better, then things would change and she could come to me and I could have my time with her, but that didn’t happen.” She’s smart and she’s funny and for whatever reason, she still loves me.” In a new interview on Facebook Watch’s [Red Table Talk](https://www.facebook.com/redtabletalk), Panettiere spoke about her “heartbreaking” decision to sign over custody of Kaya to her ex, Wladimir Klitschko, a former professional boxer. And sometimes that means letting go.” (At the time, The most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever, ever had to do in my life.”

Hayden Panettiere broke down her and Wladimir Klitschko's current custody situation of daughter Kaya, sharing her "hope" that the situation changes.

“It never would have happened,” Panettiere continued. “She was already over there in a country where her uncle is a mayor and they are icons over there,” Panettiere said of Wladimir and his brother, Vitali Klitschko. “I’ve been told that I can go over and see her anytime,” the “Heroes” alum explained. “Kids need their moms,” the singer told Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield Norris and guest co-host Kelly Osbourne. [ “trauma reaction” ](https://pagesix.com/2022/09/28/hayden-panettieres-daughter-had-trauma-reaction-to-separation/)Kaya recently exhibited. “I go over there.