Hayden Panettiere Reveals the ‘Most Gut-Wrenching Experience’ of Her Life in New Memoir

Viewers watched Hayden Panettiere grow up in front of the cameras as a child star on soap operas One Life to Live and Guiding Light, and later on as a TV show fixture on hits like Heroes and Nashville. But while the actress’ career cemented her as a rising star in Hollywood, she says she was silently paying the price of fame behind the scenes, battling both tabloid scrutiny and the unrealistic expectations that had been placed on her by both outside critics and the people closest to her in her life.

Hayden Panettiere Reveals the ‘Most Gut-Wrenching Experience’ of Her Life in New Memoir. Viewers watched Hayden Panettiere grow up in front of the cameras as a child star on soap operas One Life to Live and Guiding Light, and later on as a TV show fixture on hits like Heroes and Nashville. But while the actress’ career cemented her as a rising star in Hollywood, she says she was silently paying the price of fame behind the scenes, battling both tabloid scrutiny and the unrealistic expectations that had been placed on her by both outside critics and the people closest to her in her life. The Golden Globe-nominated actress finally lets her guard down in her new memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, which chronicles her career beginnings, upheavals in her personal life, and how “the industry that once felt playful grew unforgiving,” per a descrip...