Hayden Panettiere stated in a current interview with The Messenger that filming “Nashville” was “very traumatizing as a result of I felt like I used to be performing out my very own life.” The actor performed nation pop singer Juliette Barnes on the ABC musical drama, which ran for six seasons and 124 episodes between 2012 and 2018. Panettiere recommended the present’s writers typically pulled from her actual life whereas crafting Juliette’s storylines, which was emotionally traumatizing for her as storylines used her real-life wrestle with alcoholism.

“Straight from the start, it was like, I’m courting a soccer participant, [and then] Juliette dates a soccer participant,” Panettiere stated. “After which they turned her into an alcoholic. Then they turned to her leaving her daughter and going to this loopy [place] in Europe, and it was very apparent…They weren’t doing their homework. They weren’t creating new storylines. They have been simply my life and going, ‘Oh, let’s simply take what she’s going via and put our little spin on it.’ After which, ta-da! It’s completed and completed.”

Panettiere has been fairly vocal over the previous couple of years about her personal wrestle with alcohol and drug habit, which is why it hit too near residence for her “Nashville” character to even have an alcoholism storyline. She stated working 12-to-20 hour days on the “Nashville” set took a toll on her properly being.

“I didn’t have time to maintain myself [and] to consider and undergo the ache I used to be experiencing bodily [and] emotionally,” she stated. “I simply needed to drum it out and watch senseless tv and nice reveals. Something to maintain my thoughts off of that as a result of I knew that subsequent day I used to be going to be again at it once more. I used to be like, tear central. I don’t even suppose on a cleaning soap opera that I cried as a lot [as I did] on ‘Nashville.’”

Panettiere opened as much as Individuals journal in 2022 about her years-long habit to opioids and alcohol, revealing a member of her staff gave her “blissful capsules” earlier than pink carpets when she was solely 15 years previous. The actor’s habit worsened from there.

“They have been to make me peppy throughout interviews,” Panettiere stated of the capsules she was instructed to take as an adolescent. “I had no concept that this was not an applicable factor, or what door that might open for me when it got here to my habit.”

Panettiere gained success as a toddler with roles in cleaning soap operas and Disney’s in style soccer drama “Keep in mind the Titans” with Denzel Washington. She achieved larger acclaim along with her main position at 16 on NBC’s drama sequence “Heroes,” and he or she turned a horror favourite along with her supporting flip as Kirby in “Scream 4.” She reprised the position in final yr’s “Scream VI.”

“I used to be on high of the world and I ruined it,” Panettiere stated. “I’d suppose I hit all-time low, however then there’s that entice door that opens…This hasn’t been straightforward and there have been a number of ups and downs. However I don’t remorse even the ugliest issues which have occurred to me. I really feel extremely achieved. And I really feel like I’ve a second probability.”