Hayden Panettiere

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.

The "Nashville" actress' only child, Kaya, 7, lives in Ukraine with her ex Wladimir Klitschko.

"I mean, it was the worst signing those papers, the most heartbreaking thing I've ever, ever had to do in my life." "He didn't want to be around me," she shared of Klitschko. "I didn't want to be around me. "Because of the way that it was done, it was very upsetting," she continued. During her Red Table Talk chat, Panettiere said that the decision to give Klitschko custody of Kaya was not a "discussion." "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," she told the outlet at the time.

Hayden Panettiere has opened up about her “heartbreaking” decision to relinquish custody of her daughter Kaya to her ex Wladimir Klitschko.

I mean, it was the worst signing those papers, the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever, ever had to do in my life.” Banfield asked the actress: “You thought this was an agreement that you came to that it was best that your daughter be with her dad?” [PEOPLE](https://people.com/parents/hayden-panettiere-custody-only-child-most-heartbreaking-thing-exclusive/), the Nashville star admitted signing the custody papers was the “most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever had to do in my life”.

Hayden, 33, explained that she thought her daughter wanting to refer to other women as 'mommy' was a 'trauma reaction' to being separated from her, stating, ...

'[Sending Kaya away] was the hardest thing I ever had to do. 'I was no longer a 20-year-old who could just bounce right back.' 'And I don't like to ask for help either. 'I didn't have any negative feelings towards my child, I just knew I was deeply depressed. It's scary, you don't want to piss anyone off - especially the person who has control of your child.' He was laughing, he thought it was funny but it was horrifying to me. 'There was a cover of a magazine ... 'I never heard her do that before. She said: 'It wasn't a discussion' and it said something like, "Why Hayden chose to give up her daughter." 'I said immediately, "Can I talk to my daughter?" She explained: 'It wasn't a discussion'

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.”

The actor relinquished custody of her seven-year-old daughter Kaya in 2018 due to alcohol and opioid addiction.

She’s smart and she’s funny and for whatever reason, she still loves me.” Today, Panettiere maintains a close relationship with her daughter who remains overseas. During her appearance on Red Table Talk, the Heroes actor admitted that allowing her daughter Kaya to live with her pro boxer father in Ukraine was “the most heartbreaking thing” she’s ever had to do. But the best thing for my daughter was to make sure she was okay, take care of myself and make sure I could be a good mom to her. “It was the hardest thing I could do. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [People](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/hayden-panettiere-opioid-post-natal-depression-b2117166.html) that giving her ex full custody over their daughter was the “hardest thing” she could do but the “best thing” for her daughter. It was a trauma that she was experiencing, you know, me not being around.” “I said immediately, ‘Can I talk to my daughter?’ And when I asked her about it she went into ‘goo goo gaga’ speak.” “And my breath hitched and my heart stopped, and he was laughing. He thought this was funny, and it was horrifying to me.” That’s a cry for help,” Panettiere added.

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.

Actor's daughter Kaya was almost three when she went to live with her father in Ukraine.

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Hayden Panettiere has spoken out over her custody heartbreak with ex-boyfriend, Wladimir Klitschko.

When she was there, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. He was laughing, he thought this was funny. But I think that’s why she was wanted over there. ‘It was horrifying to me. ‘I thought she was going over to visit him like she always did. ‘At first it was not, because it wasn’t a discussion,’ she replied. It was the worst, signing those papers, the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever, ever had to do in my life.’ In fact, I didn’t know it was happening until she was already over there. Which was a shock to me,’ she said. Then once she was over there, it was immediately, “I want full custody of her”. ‘I understand that he thinks he’s doing the right thing. In a country where her uncle is the mayor, they are icons over there.

On "Red Table Talk," Hayden Panettiere spoke about her daughter's custody arrangement as well as how she hopes the agreement could one day change.

The actor said she's had an addiction to opioids and alcohol since she was a teenager and that it continued into adulthood. As of now, Panettiere is the one who goes to visit her daughter in Europe and she said she hasn't gotten "hints" that this agreement would change. She said that Kaya has also had to learn about the war in Ukraine because though she now lives "He wasn't around to see the kind of mom I was," she said. "I had never endangered her," she said, noting that she didn't think she'd done anything around Kaya that would have caused any authorities in the US to take Kaya from her. I thought she was going over to visit him like she always did," the actor continued, saying that they previously had an agreement that Kaya went back and forth between Nashville, where Panettiere was based, and Ukraine.

The actor shares a seven-year-old daughter with ex Wladimir Klitschko.

Panettiere said she was able to become sober after taking part in trauma therapy and inpatient treatment. “There was just this grey colour in my life.” The decision for Kaya to live with Klitschko was made [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) “It was the hardest thing I could do. “I was just with her. But the best thing for my daughter was to make sure she was okay, take care of myself and make sure I could be a good mom to her. [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. “At first it was not because it wasn’t a discussion,” Panettiere said in response. While speaking to the outlet, Panettiere also revealed that her relationship with Klitschko began to break down due to her addiction and drinking, and that she had been in a “cycle of self-destruction” before the former couple decided to end their relationship and for Kaya to live in Ukraine with her father in 2018. She’s just an amazing child. While speaking to Banfield Norris, Jada Pinkett Smith and guest host Kelly Osbourne, Panettiere then noted that she had initially planned to work on herself and “get better,” with the belief that “things would then change” and her daughter would “come to [her],” but that that “didn’t happen”.

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Hayden Panettiere is concerned her daughter is experiencing "trauma" as a result of their separation and fears it will have lasting effects.

The actress gets candid in a new episode of Red Table Talk about her experience with postpartum depression and the custody of her only child, daughter Kaya.

"At first it was not because it wasn't a discussion," the actress explains of giving up custody. "I mean, it was the worst signing those papers, the most heartbreaking thing I've ever, ever had to do in my life." "But he's also a man that doesn't have any sisters. "Because of the way that it was done, it was very upsetting," she says. That mentality is just pretty incredible," she says. Asked if Klitschko recognized what was going on with the actress at the time, Panettiere, 33, explains that the Ukrainian former professional boxer had a very different "mentality" than she did.

Hayden Panettiere's daughter has lived with her dad, Wladimir Klitschko, in Europe since 2018. The actor revealed this wasn't "fully" her decision.

But Panettiere said she doesn't think Klitschko understands or believes the concept, and she is worried that Kaya will eventually experience "anger" or "depression" as a result of her absence. Earlier in the conversation, Panettiere said that she had not fully opened up about her custody situation because it's been "very terrifying to talk about" since Klitschko and his family are so prominent in Ukraine. "I was going to go work on myself and I was going to get better," she explained. "And then once she was over there ... She's lived there since 2018 when Klitschko petitioned for full custody in Ukraine amid Panettiere's efforts to treat her alcoholism, the "Heroes" star explained to hosts Jada Pinkett Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris and their guest co-host Kelly Osbourne. "And my breath hitched and my heart stopped.