This submit comprises dialogue of substance abuse.
Until you spent the final 15 years dwelling beneath a rock, you are in all probability conscious of Hayden Panettiere’s run on the hit TV present Nashville.
Nashville was on the air for six seasons — 4 that aired on ABC, and two on CMT — from 2012 to 2018. Hayden starred on the present all through, however throughout her time filming, she struggled with substance abuse points.
Again in 2022, she opened up about how she left the general public eye for years to cope with opioid and alcohol habit — and final yr, she advised the New York Instances that the content material of the scripts she was receiving for Nashville had been exacerbating her substance abuse points.
“Once I went residence after appearing out what I used to be actually going by means of, the very last thing I wished to do was correctly handle or discuss what I used to be feeling in a wholesome manner,” she stated. “So I turned to unhealthy coping mechanisms.”
In a brand new interview with the Messenger, Hayden elaborated on how filming Nashville contributed to her struggles — and it appears like issues had been fairly tough. She even referred to being on the present as a “traumatizing” expertise.
“Straight from the start, it was like, I’m relationship a soccer participant, [and then] Juliette dates a soccer participant,” Hayden stated, suggesting that the writers had been drawing from her personal IRL experiences for her character’s plot strains.
“After which they turned her into an alcoholic. Then they turned to her leaving her daughter and going to this loopy [place] in Europe, and it was very apparent…”
“They weren’t doing their homework. They weren’t creating new storylines. They had been simply my life and going, ‘Oh, let’s simply take what she’s going by means of and put our little spin on it.’ After which, ta-da! It’s performed and performed.”
“I didn’t have time to deal with myself [and] to consider and undergo the ache I used to be experiencing bodily [and] emotionally,” she continued. “I simply wished to drum it out and watch senseless tv and nice reveals. Something to maintain my thoughts off of that as a result of I knew that subsequent day I used to be going to be again at it once more.”
“I used to be like, tear central. I don’t even suppose on a cleaning soap opera that I cried as a lot [as I did] on Nashville.”
You possibly can learn your complete interview right here.
Should you or somebody you recognize is fighting substance abuse, you may name SAMHSA’s Nationwide Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) and discover extra assets right here.
The Nationwide Alliance on Psychological Sickness helpline is 1-888-950-6264 (NAMI) and offers info and referral companies; GoodTherapy.org is an affiliation of psychological well being professionals from greater than 25 nations who help efforts to scale back hurt in remedy.