Hayden Panettiere is airing the horrific skeletons weighing her down inside her closet.
Panettiere, 33, decided to look back on the heart wrenching moment she relinquished custody of her daughter, Kaya, to Wladimir Klitschko amid her addiction struggles.
Hayden told Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield-Norris and Kelly Osbourne on “Red Table Talk” that the decision wasn’t a discussion.
She claims in a sneak peek of Wednesday’s episode, that her ex-fiancé did not come to her and share his reasoning for why it would be good for Kaya to live with him.
“If he had … I would’ve said, ‘OK, that makes sense, I get it, I’ll come there to visit and stuff like that,’” she said.
Panettiere described signing the papers to give the former pro boxer, 46, full custody of Kaya as very upsetting.
“It was the worst moment and most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever had to do,” she emotionally stated. “I plan to work on myself now and get better, so that my daughter, who is now 7-years old, can come to me in the future.”
Panettiere gave birth to Kaya in December 2014 and the little one was sent to live with her dad in the Ukraine four years later as Panettiere secretly battled an addiction to opioids and alcohol.
“The best thing for my daughter was to make sure she was OK, take care of myself and make sure I could be a good mom to her,” she explained to People in July. “And sometimes that means letting go.”
“She has a beautiful life,” Panettiere continued, noting that Kaya was safe and out of Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion.
In 2019, Panettiere’s rep said that she had regularly seen Kaya since the move and spent substantial time with her daughter both in the United States and Ukraine.
The mother-daughter pair appeared to celebrate Kaya’s birthday together the following year, with Panettiere showing off a “How to Train Your Dragon”-themed cake via Instagram.
“Six years ago today, I met the most amazing (not so little anymore) creature,” she captioned the December 2020 photo. “Can’t believe my baby girl is getting so big!”
