{"id":6753,"date":"2026-08-17T08:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:43:50","slug":"tributes-to-hayden-panettiere-pour-in-following-her-death-at-36-dont-be-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6753","title":{"rendered":"Tributes to Hayden Panettiere pour in following her death at 36: &#8216;Don&#8217;t be gone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A devastated Selma Blair has paid tribute to Hayden Panettiere following her death at age 36 \u2013 writing in one post: \u201cI\u2019m dying, Please be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6751\">Hayden Panettiere beamed in final Instagram post weeks before her death at 36<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLegally Blonde\u201d actress, 54, posted three comments, reacting to the final Instagram snap the \u201cNashville\u201d and \u201cHeroes\u201d star shared last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love you. Don\u2019t be gone. Don\u2019t be gone. Please. Please,\u201d Blair wrote in one post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love you whale tail my friend,\u201d she penned in a second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m dying. Please be here,\u201d Blair wrote in a third post.<\/p>\n<p>Tia Mowry, known for her role in \u201cSister, Sister,\u201d reacted to Panettiere\u2019s death by posting a broken heart emoji.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my god \u2013 heartbroken,\u201d talk show host and comic Rosie O\u2019Donnell wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRest in peace sweet Hayden,\u201d Melissa Barrera, who starred alongside Panettiere in \u201cScream VI\u201d, posted on her Instagram Stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love you Hayden,\u201d David Arquette, Panettiere\u2019s co-star in \u201cScream 4,\u201d wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Bethany Joy Lenz, who played Haley James Scott in \u201cOne Tree Hill,\u201d described Panettiere as a \u201cwild little blonde\u201d and said she was \u201ccrushed\u201d by her death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe ran through the Screen Gem studio hallways at 222 E44th St. laughing and playing games in between blocking and camera rehearsals,\u201d she wrote on Instagram, sharing a picture of the late star from when she was a child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong, unruly curls trailing behind her. She knew her lines and everyone else\u2019s. Her intelligence was astonishing. She understood scenes and nuance and human struggle like no child I\u2019d ever seen on camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd she\u2019d sit with you for a great conversation, then giggle and go play. We\u2019d connect on and off over the years, like the cousin in the family reunion who got famous and life moved her away\u2014but I always felt such joy seeing her when we were lucky enough to cross paths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dont understand how this is real. Everything seemed to be turning around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was coming BACK to life, wasn\u2019t she? It\u2019s too young and there\u2019s still so much more life. And her daughter\u2026. Hayden, you are surround[ed] by love. I\u2019m sorry for every moment I didn\u2019t reach out or check in. This can\u2019t be real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Randall Slavin, the man who was with Panettiere in the final picture shared on her account, re-posted the image on his Instagram Story, alongside the message, \u201cPeace be with you, H.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere\u2019s death was announced by her dad Skip Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her \u2014 and to the millions who watched her onscreen. We ask for privacy as our family takes time to process this unimaginable loss,\u201d he told Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>Her cause of death hasn\u2019t been revealed \u2013 but a source close to her told TMZ she had been complaining about back pain over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere was open about her struggles with opioid and alcohol addiction and postpartum depression in the years before her death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6750\">Fauci was privately informed about questions over COVID-19 vaccines and miscarriages, new texts show<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have the shakes when I woke up and could only function with sipping alcohol,\u201d she told People in July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>She was hospitalized with jaundice and checked into rehab in 2020, spending eight months there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA doctor told me that if I didn\u2019t stop drinking, I\u2019d be dead within five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress said she \u201cfelt more clear-headed than I\u2019d ever been\u201d when she left rehab in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere was a mom to daughter Kaya, 11, whom she shared with the retired heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko. <\/p>\n<p>The New York-born star struck up a relationship with the athlete in 2009, becoming engaged in 2013. They separated in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI never had the feeling that I wanted to harm my child, but I didn\u2019t want to spend any time with her,\u201d she said, documenting her battle with postpartum depression.<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere relinquished custody of her only child in 2018 \u2014 the same year she split from the boxer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the hardest thing I could do,\u201d she told People.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the best thing for my daughter was to make sure she was okay, take care of myself and make sure I could be a good mom to her. And sometimes that means letting go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere described Kaya as an \u201camazing child.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s smart, and she\u2019s funny, and for whatever reason, she still loves me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a happy kid open to a huge world. And she has more love than anybody I\u2019ve ever met.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Panettiere suffered a personal tragedy in February 2023 following the death of her brother, Jansen, age 28.<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere documented her battles in her 320-page memoir \u201cThis is Me: A Reckoning,\u201d which was released in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6748\">Hayden Panettiere beamed in final Instagram post weeks before her death at 36<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastated Selma Blair has paid tribute to Hayden Panettiere following her death at age 36 \u2013 writing in one post: \u201cI\u2019m dying, Please be here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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