Hayden Panettiere's boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, has met with federal investigators as authorities continue looking into the circumstances surrounding the actress' death.
Hickerson, 37, has spoken with the DEA, according to a report TMZ published on Thursday, September 10, citing sources with direct knowledge of the investigation. Local and federal authorities are focusing on identifying the person who may have supplied Panettiere, 36, with substances that could have contributed to her death, with one source explaining that investigators are "zeroing in on a potential drug dealer."
No arrests have been made, and investigators are still awaiting toxicology results that could determine Panettiere's official cause of death, according to the outlet.
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The Nashville star was found unresponsive at a short-term rental in Greenville, South Carolina, on August 16. Despite efforts to revive her, Panettiere was ******* ounced dead. She left behind a daughter, Kaya, 11, whom she shared with ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko.

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Hayden Panettiere's on-again, off-again boyfriend Brian Hickerson is terrified that her estranged mother, Lesley Vogel, will stop at nothing to finish him following the actress' death, a source tells In Touch.
As In Touch previously reported, Brian, 37, and his brother, Zach Hickerson, were both on the scene when paramedics responded to a 911 call involving the Nashville star, 35, in Greenville, South Carolina on Sunday, August 16. Despite attempts to revive her, Panettiere was ******* ounced dead, leaving behind an 11-year-old daughter, Kaya, with ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko.
"Brian swears up and down that he's been completely honest about what happened the day Hayden died, but make no mistake, he's terrified right now," reveals the source. "The DEA is investigating. It's very serious, and Hayden's mom is clearly on the warpath."
Vogel, 70, told the Daily Mail that she raised questions about Brian's account of Panettiere's final hours to law enforcement, including the idea that he simply found her unresponsive.
"I don't know how you can take a nap near someone who's dying and not realize something's wrong. How do you do that?" Vogel told the outlet. "When the EMTs came, it was for cardiac arrest. People in cardiac arrest aren't just lying still. They make noise."

#touch #terrified

More details about Hayden Panettiere's relationship with Brian Hickerson continue to emerge days after her death.
According to a new report from Rob Shuter's Naughty But Nice Substack published on Monday, August 24, Brian, 37, was pressuring the Scream 4 star to have a child with him.
"Brian wasn't casually talking about someday becoming a father — he was pushing Hayden to have a baby with him," a source told the outlet.
However, Panettiere — who shared daughter Kaya, 11, with her ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko — "understood exactly what another pregnancy could potentially mean for her emotionally," according to the source.
"She wasn't convinced it was something she wanted to risk," the source continued. "Hayden knew how badly things had gone after Kaya. She had lived through postpartum depression, addiction and the heartbreak of being separated from her daughter. Brian wanted a baby. Hayden understood the possible consequences. That was the tension between them."

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An exclusive source tells PEOPLE that Hayden Panettiere would get emotional when speaking about how much she loved and missed her daughter Kaya, 11
The late actress signed over custody of her daughter Kaya to ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko in 2018
Panettiere was candid in the past about making that tough decision while pursuing treatment for alcoholism and drug abuse
Hayden Panettiere always loved her daughter Kaya.
An exclusive source tells PEOPLE that the late actress, who died suddenly on Sunday, Aug. 16, would occasionally get emotional when she thought of how much she loved and missed her 11-year-old daughter Kaya.

#kaya #loved

The mother of Hayden Panettiere is speaking out, following the actress' shocking death last week. Panettiere was found unresponsive in her home at just 36 years old, and her death is being investigated as an overdose.
Now, Panettiere's mother, Lesley Vogel, has come forward with some stunning claims in an interview with the New York Times that was published over the weekend.
According to Vogel, Panettiere's ex, Brian Hickerson, ***** ed off some of her belongings before she passed away. Among the items that Hickerson allegedly ***** ed was a vintage guitar. Hickerson had previously filed for bankruptcy in 2022.
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The report adds, "Her daughter was shocked when she found out that some of her possessions were in his storage unit. One of the people who was given anonymity to speak with The New York Times confirmed that Mr. Hickerson had ***** ed some of the actress's items."

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Hayden Panettiere's ex-fiancé, Wladimir Klitschko, is honoring the late actress.
On Friday, August 21, the retired professional boxer, 50, took to Instagram to share a photo of the two-time Golden Globe-nominated actress on what would have been her 37th birthday and paid tribute to her with a lengthy caption.
"Today is Hayden's birthday. Instead of celebrating the way we had planned, today we celebrate her life, her spirit, and the love she brought into this world," the Olympian wrote. "I want to thank all of Hayden's fans, friends, and everyone who has reached out for the incredible outpouring of love and support."
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"At a time filled with so much sadness, your kindness has reminded me that there is still so much good in humanity," he continued. "If you're reading this, I ask just one thing: even if only for a moment, think about LOVE. Reach out to a friend. Forgive someone. Be kind. Love is a superpower. Use it."

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Wladimir Klitschko is remembering Hayden Panettiere on what would have been her 37th birthday.The former heavyweight boxing champion shared an emotional tribute to his former fiancée on Aug. 21, five days after the "Nashville" actress died at 36.
"Today is Hayden's birthday. Instead of celebrating the way we had planned, today we celebrate her life, her spirit, and the love she brought into this world," Klitschko wrote on Instagram.
"At a time filled with so much sadness, your kindness has reminded me that there is still so much good in humanity," he added as a thank-you to Panettiere's fans, friends and others who have reached out to the family with messages of support.
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Klitschko encouraged those reading his message to focus on love and kindness amid the grief.

#panettiere #birthday

Hayden Panettiere's former fiancé Wladimir Klitschko has honoured the late actress on what would have been her 37th birthday.
The Ukrainian heavyweight champion, who is the father of the late star's 11-year-old daughter Kaya, shared a photo of the Heroes actress on Instagram on Friday and wrote a heartfelt tribute to his ex.
"Instead of celebrating the way we had planned, today we celebrate her life, her spirit, and the love she brought into this world," he wrote.
"I want to thank all of Hayden's fans, friends, and everyone who has reached out for the incredible outpouring of love and support. At a time filled with so much sadness, your kindness has reminded me that there is still so much good in humanity."
The retired boxer then encouraged his followers to be kind to others and lead with love instead of hate.
"If you're reading this, I ask just one thing: even if only for a moment, think about LOVE. Reach out to a friend. Forgive someone. Be kind," he continued. "Love is a superpower. Use it."

#love #wrote #much #hayden

Wladimir Klitschko shared a tribute on what would have been Hayden Panettiere's 37th birthday
"Instead of celebrating the way we had planned, today we celebrate her life, her spirit, and the love she brought into this world," the former boxer wrote on Friday, Aug. 21
Panettiere died on Sunday at a residence in Greenville, S.C.
Hayden Panettiere's ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko honored the late actress on her birthday, just five days after her sudden death.
On Friday, Aug. 21, on what would have been Panettiere's 37th birthday, the former boxer, 50, paid tribute to the star in a post on Instagram.

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Hayden Panettiere's ex, Wladimir Klitschko, shared a heartbreaking statement shortly after the late actress's death. The two shared a romantic relationship until it ended in 2018. Since her death, condolences have been pouring in from across the world.
Klitschko paid his respects in a detailed statement offering his condolences to her family via his X account Klitschko. The former professional boxer reportedly dated and was engaged to Panettiere between 2009 and 2018. The two shared a daughter.
In the statement, he expressed his profound sadness over her "tragic" death. Although they had not been romantically involved since 2018, he said he deeply respected her, especially as the mother of their daughter, Kaya.
He also highlighted her decorated career as an actress and fondly remembered her perseverance through the "darker side" of the film industry in Hollywood. He also said, "Nothing will erase the times we shared or the place she had in our lives."
The former Ukrainian boxer promised his daughter that he would always speak about her mother respectfully in her absence and would ensure she remembers her mom as the person she was.

#shared #daughter #since #mother

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Hayden Panettiere, known to many of us as the cheerleader who couldn't be broken on Heroes and the country western star who came apart on Nashville, died this week in her South Carolina home at the age of 36. She left behind an eleven-year-old daughter called Kaya. Her cause of death is not yet known.
The public response to her death has followed a familiar refrain: the tragic trajectory of a child star whose bright light cast longer shadows. But Panettiere's story is also one of a young woman who fought hard to reclaim her narrative, and was willing to drag the darkest parts of it into the light, even when doing so made people uncomfortable.
Her 2026 memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, detailed a near-death labor and postpartum psychological spiral, an opioid and alcohol addiction that predated her daughter's birth by more than a decade, and the very difficult decision to give her daughter's father, former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, full custody of their daughter in 2018. It was a story that gave a voice to a subject and a stigma that so many women have been unable to face openly for fear of shame, judgment and retribution. And perhaps that makes her sudden death all the more tragic, and opens up an important question that deserves to be confronted: what, exactly, do we mean when we say "good mother"?
381839 09: Actress Hayden Panettierre poses for photographers November 13, 2000 at the premiere of "102 Dalmatians" at Radio City Music Hall In New York City. (Photo by George DeSota/Newsmakers)

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In the wake of Hayden Panettiere's death, the director of one of her last films is opening up about his experience with her on set, saying the "energy in her room was pretty dark" at the time.
The actress, who worked with Griff Furst on his 2025 film A Breed Apart, died on Sunday at age 36 at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina.
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They met at a book launch party in Los Angeles. And, as the story goes, the actress peered up at the boxer. Hayden Panettiere and Wladimir Klitschko's relationship was marked by safety and struggles.
"You're huge," the actress told the boxer, the 6-foot-6 champion from Ukraine.
"You're tiny," Klitschko replied to the New York actress who is about five feet in height.
So began a relationship between the heavyweight and the featherweight, a couple who had a presence at championship fights and galas but struggled outside the limelight.
They got engaged but never married. Had a daughter but separated. Remained in contact as they co-parented and as Panettiere opened up about their struggles and struggles of her own.

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Megyn Kelly is weighing in following the death of Hayden Panettiere.
Kelly took to her eponymous podcast on Monday, August 17, following the news of Hayden's death at 36, to speculate on the circumstances surrounding her passing.
"I am not surprised to read the news about Hayden Panettiere at all. I am sad. I lament the loss of this young woman, but I don't think it is a pattern we are ever going to correct for because there will always be parents who shove their child into the entertainment industry at too young and too precarious an age and don't have the skills or the desire to rescue them from the fallout that inevitably comes," Kelly, 55, said.
As In Touch previously reported, Hayden was ******* ounced dead after Greenville, South Carolina, officials responded to a 911 call on Sunday, August 16. According to audio obtained by People from the dispatch call on Sunday, responders were called to the apartment after a report of an apparent overdose and cardiac arrest. The Greenville Police Department is investigating the cause of death of the Remember the ******* ans star.
Kelly continued to point the finger at Hayden's parents, Lesley Vogel and Alan "Skip" Lee Panettiere, calling them "enablers" in the years following her rise to fame, with the actress — who shared daughter Kaya, 11, with her ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko — admitting to suffering from both postpartum depression and substance abuse over the last decade. Hayden also struggled following the death of her younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, who died in February 2023 at the age of 28 due to an undiagnosed heart condition.

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Hayden Panettiere was a mom of one when she died at the age of 36 on Aug. 16.
Known for her roles in Remember the ******* ans, Heroes, Nashville and Scream, the late actress welcomed her daughter, Kaya, with her then-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko in December 2014. The former couple broke up four years later, with Panettiere eventually allowing Klitschko to have full custody of their daughter amid her struggles with mental health and substance abuse.
After Klitschko gained full custody, he relocated to Ukraine with Kaya. Despite living apart, Panettiere later wrote that she had an "incredibly strong" relationship with her daughter in her 2026 memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning.
"My daughter, Kaya, has lived with her dad, Wladimir Klitschko, since 2018," she wrote. "Not being under the same roof with her every day has been the most gut-wrenching experience of my life, and it's hard to describe the layers of emotion — including sadness, resentment, and anger — I've felt because of it."
Ahead, look back at five sweet snapshots of Panettiere and Klitschko with their daughter, Kaya.

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Hayden Panettiere recently spoke about her daughter during a May event to promote her memoir
"I'll continue protecting her, especially while she's young," she said of her daughter Kaya, 11
The Heroes actress died suddenly on August 16
Hayden Panettiere spoke about what she hoped her daughter would learn from her memoir, months before the actress' sudden death at age 36.
The Nashville star, who died on Sunday, Aug. 16, recently appeared at a book event for her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, on May 26. During the panel, she said she hoped the book would resonate with her daughter Kaya, 11. In recent years, Panettiere had been candid about her traumatic childbirth and postpartum depression, as well as her struggles with addiction. She has also discussed her decision to allow her former fiancé Wladimir Klitschko to have full custody of their daughter.

#hayden #spoke

Hayden Panettiere met champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko in 2008
They got engaged and welcomed a daughter, Kaya, before splitting in 2018
On Aug. 16, the Nashville actress died at a residence in Greenville, S.C.
Hayden Panettiere shared her only child with ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko.
The actress met the former world champion boxer in 2008, and the two got engaged five years later. In 2014, their daughter Kaya was born. When Panettiere and Klitschko split in 2018, Klitschko was given full custody of their daughter.

#wladimir #champion #boxer #actress

Just weeks before her death, Hayden Panettiere gave an emotional interview about her 11-year-old daughter, Kaya.
Speaking to parenting magazine Momé in July for a cover story ***** led "Hayden Panettiere Never Stopped Choosing Her Daughter," the actress opened up about the near-death birth, postpartum depression and her painful decision to give her ex-fiancé, Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko, custody of their daughter.
The pair welcomed Kaya in December 2014. The birth was traumatic and near-fatal, with Panettiere requiring seven blood transfusions and three hours of surgery. While in recovery, the actress said she "felt nothing" when gazing at her baby. "I had always heard that moms feel an instant rush of love, but I didn't — and I had no idea why," she said.
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To combat the emptiness and shame, Panettiere told the magazine that she turned to alcohol, which "ultimately ended up leading to an alcohol dependency." What came next, she said, was the hardest decision of her life: giving Klitschko, who was living in Ukraine, custody of their daughter, who she called her "mini me."

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Hayden Panettiere was always candid about the complicated journey that shaped her relationship with her only child, daughter Kaya Evdokia Klitschko.
The Heroes and Nashville actress died on Sunday, Aug. 16, at age 36, her representative confirmed to PEOPLE. Further details surrounding her death have not been released.
Panettiere is survived by her 11-year-old daughter, whom she welcomed with former fiancé Wladimir Klitschko in December 2014.
In the months before her death, Panettiere spoke openly about Kaya in her May 2026 memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, and during an appearance that same month on Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast. She reflected on everything from her traumatic childbirth and postpartum depression to her struggles with addiction and the devastating decision to allow Klitschko to have full custody of their daughter.
Despite living apart for years, Panettiere said in her memoir that her bond with Kaya remained "incredibly strong."

#memoir #heroes

"Heroes" actress Hayden Panettiere has died, according to a report. She was 36.
The New York native's father, Skip Panettiere, sconfirmed her death to ABC News in a statement Sunday night:
It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen.
Skip Panettiere requested privacy, according to ABC, "as our family takes time to process this unimaginable loss."
Panettiere had one daughter with her ex, Ukrainian professional boxer Wladimir Klitschko, and was open about her struggles with postpartum depression.

#panettiere #wladimir

The entertainment world is in mourning, with the shocking news late Sunday night that actress Hayden Panettiere has passed away.
Panettiere, who rose to stardom for her roles as Claire Bennett in the hit series Heroes and Juliette Barnes in Nashville, was just 36 years old. The news was confirmed in a statement to ABC News.
"It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden," her representative said.
"She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen."
Sep 11, 2010; Frankfurt, GERMANY; Television and movie actress Hayden Panettiere in attendance during the boxing match between Wladimir Klitschko and Samuel Peter at Commerzbank-Arena. Mandatory Credit: Frank Peters/Witters Sport via USA TODAY Sports Credit: IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect (Reuters)

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Tyson Fury has announced details of his final tune-up fight before facing Anthony Joshua , revealing a clash against veteran Polish heavyweight Mariusz Wach in Pattaya , Thailand .
The bout, to be shown on Netflix , will take place on Friday July 24, which is just 24 hours before Joshua takes on unknown Albanian Kristian Prenga in his own warm-up fight in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Should everything go to plan in those two contests, boxing fans will finally get the long-awaited showdown between the two best British heavyweight boxers of their generation when Fury and AJ face off in a blockbuster event in the latter stages of 2026 , having agreed terms earlier this year.
Wach does have more of a track record then Prenga and fought for a world heavyweight ******* le against Wladimir Klitschko – impressing as he took the Ukrainian great the distance before losing a unanimous decision for the first defeat of his career.
However, that fight was way back in 2012 and the 6ft 7in Pole is now 46 years old, having dropped from a 27-0 record before facing Klitschko to now being 39-13.