Hayden Panettiere Opened Up About Giving Up Custody Of Her Daughter Amid Addiction And Mental Health Issues

Warning: Discussion of intelligence wellness and substance abuse.

Hayden Panettiere discussed giving up custody of her daughter, Kaya.

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Hayden welcomed her girl successful 2014 with then-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko. In 2018, aft the mates split, Kaya went to live successful Europe with her father, arsenic Hayden was struggling with intelligence unwellness and addiction.

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Ahead of her upcoming memoir, Hayden sat down with media property and podcaster Jay Shetty to discuss the decision. She said, "The thought that anybody would deliberation that I would conscionable springiness distant my kid and beryllium good with it is heartbreaking."

"I was struggling with intelligence health, anxiety, and postpartum [depression] and having to enactment my mode done it and feeling similar I wholly mislaid myself," she continued. "I deliberation a misconception is that I person been, successful the past, forced into treatment, erstwhile successful information I person been the 1 who sought it out."

"It couldn't beryllium further from the truth. It became this horrible rhythm for years of battling slump and anxiousness and alcoholism and substance abuse, and conscionable maine trying to find my mode back," she continued.

She past claimed that Wladimir Klitschko said it would beryllium champion for him and Kaya to unrecorded successful Europe erstwhile she was astir 2 years old. "When that archetypal happened, I did not person a bully absorption to it. I went parent lion. I would person burnt the satellite down for my child. That was incredibly difficult," she recalled.

Hayden said that Kaya went connected to find assemblage successful Europe: "By the clip I yet got healthy, I felt similar it would person been unfair and selfish of maine to effort to propulsion her out, distant from this beingness that that she had created. She's an unthinkable small girl."

"[Kaya] knows that she's got 2 parents that emotion her. I cognize successful my bosom that she feels supported. I person an unthinkable narration with her. I question arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin to spot her. I bash walk a batch of clip connected FaceTime with her, we speech astir truly heavy things. We person a truly intense, unthinkable bond, and I'm precise grateful for that," Hayden added. "She successful nary mode feels abandoned."

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