Actress Hayden Panettiere has set Hollywood ablaze over the previous few weeks after teasing parts of her explosive memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning.” In response to previous reports from The Blast, the mother of 1 wrote about painful moments she encountered during her profession, including one where a really famous Oscar-winning actor and director exposed himself to her. In one other a part of the book, the “Bring It On” performer recalled being placed in bed next to a unadorned, famous singer. Panettiere kept the boys’s names out of her book, prompting social media users to invest about whom she is likely to be referring to. Despite that, Panettiere explained in a recent interview that the book had nothing to do with airing people’s dirty laundry.
Speaking with Tamron Hall on her daytime talk show, Panettiere answered the previous “Today Show” host’s questions on whether she left names out of the book for legal reasons.
“I desired to tell my stories without dragging anyone else within the mud, through the mud,” she said, adding that she was cognizant about what could have happened had she used real names. “As much as I need to call people out, this remains to be an industry that I actually have to exist in.”
In response to Panettiere, writing about her experiences was more for her than anybody else. “People should not readily willing to confess to what they did,” she said before addressing the claims that she can have written concerning the aforementioned stories for attention and book sales.
“You don’t make a story like that up simply to sell a book. Sorry, been doing this too long,” she said. “This has nothing to do with that.”
Hayden Panettiere Admits That She Didn’t Want To Be Sued By ‘Very P-ssed-Off Famous People’
Panettiere shared more about her decision to omit the names of the famous men she alleged had wronged her in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Panettiere said mentioning the boys directly “was a foul search for them” before echoing her earlier sentiments. “They’re people I could run into again. I didn’t need to put myself in that position,” she said.
Adding to it, the “Nashville” actress acknowledged that while these experiences “happened an extended time ago,” naming them could cause issues for her down the road.
“… it was to guard me and my company from being sued by some very p-ssed-off famous people,” she said.
Hayden Panettiere Said An Award-Winning Actor Exposed His Private Area To Her
In her memoir, Panettiere wrote a few troubling experience she had as a young woman surrounded by powerful Hollywood men.
In response to The Blast, Panettiere was interacting with the boys, who she described as of their 40s and 50s, and said she felt them eyeing her.
As she left the event, that’s when a well-respected Oscar winner grabbed her and told her he had a “big wad of gum on his pants.”
When Panettiere looked down, she noticed that the gentleman’s testicles were hanging out of his pants.
Panettiere Recalls Being Placed In Bed With A Naked, Famous Man
In one other section of her book, Panettiere reflected on being placed in bed with a unadorned, famous man when she was 18 by someone she trusted.
“The proven fact that I used to be 18, although I’d lived such an enormous life and I believed I used to be oh so mature at 18 … scientifically, your frontal lobes don’t develop until we’re what, 25, 26?” she said. “I wasn’t able to being fully aware of what was happening around me.”
Panettiere called the moment “shocking,” adding that she eventually escaped the room and hid for the remaining of the night.
“That lion in me, that fireplace in me … my hair stood on end and I became ferocious,” she said. “I used to be like, ‘This is just not happening.’”
Panettiere Wrote About Being Fired For Speaking About Postpartum Depression
Elsewhere in her book, Panettiere revealed that she was fired from Neutrogena, the favored skincare brand, after speaking publicly about her postpartum depression.
In response to Panettiere, the corporate decided to part ways together with her, citing a violation of its morality clause.
Panettiere went on to say that she was confused by the corporate’s decision to fireplace her, saying, “… all of the things that individuals representing your organization have done, the thing that you simply’re going to say is just not allowed, and that breaks the morality clause, is speaking about my postpartum depression?”
The actress said that speaking about her postpartum had nothing to do with whether she was misrepresenting the brand.
“That’s not an ethical thing, that’s only a scientific thing. That’s not even legal. You can not legally fire any individual for having postpartum depression. It’s not a alternative I made. It wasn’t my fault. In order that one blew my mind,” she said.