911 call shows Hayden Panettiere was given CPR on day she died

Zach Hickerson, the member of Hayden Panettiere's on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, attempted CPR connected the histrion earlier she was declared dead, a 911 telephone revealed. 

Panettiere, known for her roles arsenic a kid histrion successful "Remember the Titans" and aboriginal the TV bid "Heroes" and "Nashville," was recovered unconscious astatine her Greenville, South Carolina, residence connected the day of Aug. 16 by Zach and Brian Hickerson, according to a constabulary study and the 911 telephone obtained by CBS News. She was pronounced dormant astatine the scene, contempt "advanced cardiac beingness enactment measures," the Greenville County Coroner's Office said astatine the time. She was 36. 

An autopsy recovered that Panettiere's decease was accidental and ruled that the origin was the "toxic effects of" the drugs fentanyl, 4-ANPP, alprazolam, methocarbamol and quetiapine.

Zach Hickerson, who said connected the 911 telephone that helium had travel implicit to the couple's location aft church, told the 911 relation that Panettiere did not look to beryllium breathing. The relation asked if they had a defibrillator, but Zach Hickerson said helium didn't cognize if determination was 1 successful the flat building. The relation past told Zach Hickerson to statesman CPR and gave him instructions connected however to execute thorax compressions and mouth-to-mouth until exigency aesculapian services could arrive.

Zach Hickerson also told TMZ a fewer days aboriginal that Brian Hickerson gave Panettiere Narcan, a medicine that tin reverse opioid overdoses, aft they recovered her unconscious.

Panettiere had spoken openly astir her struggles with substance abuse, telling People magazine in 2022 that she became addicted to opioids and intoxicant successful her teens. In her 2026 memoir, "This Is Me: A Reckoning," she wrote astir her acquisition with addiction, carnal abuse, postpartum depression and recovery. 

Panettiere told CBS News' Gayle King successful May that she hoped sharing her communicative would assistance others. 

"I truly wanted to stock with the satellite that they don't person to beryllium afraid. That they tin unrecorded their truth. They tin beryllium imperfect," she said successful the interview. Asked however she was doing, she replied, "Still moving connected myself each the time. I had a large therapist and I'm — I'm better, healthier than I've been successful a agelong time."

Kiki Intarasuwan and Kerry Breen contributed to this report.

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