“I may relate to quite a lot of these storylines just like the alcoholism and postpartum despair. They hit near dwelling,” she instructed the journal.
Along with her struggles with alcohol abuse, she mentioned she would additionally take opioids.
“My saving grace is that I could not be messy whereas on set and dealing,” she mentioned. “However issues saved getting uncontrolled [off set]. And as I acquired older, the medication and alcohol grew to become one thing I nearly could not reside with out.”
At one level, she landed within the hospital and instructed by medical doctors that her liver was “going to provide out.”
“I used to be in a cycle of self-destruction,” she instructed Folks.
After eight months in a rehabilitation middle and varied different trauma and inpatient therapies, Panettiere, who shares a 7-year-old daughter along with her ex, Ukrainian former skilled boxer Wladimir Klitschko, is at peace and hopeful in regards to the future.
“I put quite a lot of work into myself and I needed to be prepared to be extremely trustworthy,” she mentioned.
Klitschko’s brother, Vitali Klitschko, is the mayor of Kyiv.