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The contents of Hayden Panettiere’s moving memoir have been scrutinised following her devastating, sudden death, with the actress writing a haunting line about her “last breath”.
The 36-year-old TV and movie star was found unresponsive inside an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday after an acquaintance called emergency services about 1.50pm.
In the wake of Panettiere’s tragic death — which comes three years after her younger brother Jansen died — her candid memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, released in May, has been revisited.
Panettiere opened up about her rise to fame onscreen and the exploitation, addiction, postpartum depression and domestic abuse she experienced throughout life as an actress.
In one part of the book, she referred to taking her “last breath”, which paints a poignant perspective on her mindset in the months before her death.
“One thing I know from my 36 years in the public eye is this: Life is a process that evolves day by day, year by year and — like it or not — you are engaged in a cycle of growth until the moment you take your last breath,” she wrote.
“I never want to stop evolving and changing for the better, and I’ll forever be a work in progress.”
New details about the moment Panettiere was found were released by police on Monday.
Dispatch audio obtained by TMZ appeared to capture a first responder saying, “Responding. Overdose. CPR is in progress”.
Narcan — a medicine typically used to quickly reverse an opioid overdose — was found on a mattress at the scene according to TMZ.
It is not known if Panettiere received the life-saving dose of Narcan or if another person at the apartment did.
Other reports say emergency crews initially responded to calls concerning an “unresponsive female” in cardiac arrest, with paramedics administering advanced life support in a desperate attempt to revive the actress.
Panettiere was pronounced dead at 2.32pm.
The Heroes and Nashville star has been open about her drug and alcohol addiction in the past.
She told People in July 2022 that her addiction got so “out of control” she “couldn’t live without” substances.
The A Bug’s Life voice star was also first offered “happy pills” before walking red carpets when she was a teenager.
“They were to make me peppy during interviews,” she said.
“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.
“My saving grace is that I couldn’t be messy while on set and working. But as things kept getting out of control [off set]. And as I got older, the drugs and alcohol became something I almost couldn’t live without.”
During one of her last interviews in May at an event for her book in Los Angeles Panettiere said she wanted to “leave the world a better place”.
She also told the Jay Shetty podcast that month she felt “like I have a lot more life to live”.
“I finally feel like I have shaken off all of this darkness and this negativity…I can feel all the exciting possibilities,” she said.
Panettiere leaves behind her daughter, Kaya, whom she shared with Ukrainian boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko.
Authorities say there were no signs of trauma or foul play, and her cause of death remain under investigation at this time.
