In a recent interview, Hayden Panettiere accused the writers of “Nashville” – the hit show she starred in as Juliette Barnes for six seasons – of pulling disturbing details from her real life and including it in the plot.
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Panettiere has been open about her battles with addiction, alcoholism and postpartum depression. In the show, her country music star character also struggled with depression and substance abuse.
Hayden Panettiere Says “Nashville” Writers Mirrored Her Real Life When Creating Her Character’s Storylines
In a new interview with The Messenger, the actress touched on her time on the set of “Nashville,” describing how she started noticing similarities between her real-life and her character’s fictional existence.
“Straight from the beginning, it was like, I’m dating a football player, [and then] Juliette dates a football player,” she said. “And then they turned her into an alcoholic. Then they turned to her leaving her daughter and going to this crazy [place] in Europe, and it was very obvious…”
The “Scream VI” actress continued, “They weren’t doing their homework. They weren’t creating new storylines. They were just looking at my life and going, ‘Oh, let’s just take what she’s going through and put our little spin on it.’ And then, ta-da! It’s done and done.”
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This resulted in her mental health deteriorating further due to the set conditions, and working on the show 12 to 20 hours a day heavily affected her overall well-being.
“I didn’t have time to take care of myself [and] to think about and go through the pain I was experiencing physically [and] emotionally. I just wanted to drum it out and watch mindless television and great shows,” she recalled. “Anything to keep my mind off of that because I knew that next day I was going to be back at it again. I was like, tear central. I don’t even think on a soap opera that I cried as much [as I did] on Nashville.”
The show ran for six seasons, before coming to an end in 2018. Following the end of the show, she took a break from acting for a while.
In recent times, the actress has been very open about the emotionally tormenting moments in her life, even describing how hard it was for her to relinquish custody of her daughter.
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