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Hayden Panettiere remembers a distressing second when she was 18 years outdated in her new memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, which was launched on Tuesday, Could 19. Within the guide, the Scream VI actress, now 36, recalled being on a celebrity-filled “tremendous yacht,” when a feminine pal instructed her to “get in mattress” with an older, well-known man. The revelation prompted followers to marvel who Hayden was speaking about.
“My physique not felt like my very own,” Hayden recalled in a single excerpt from her guide, which additionally delves into her previous with habit, struggles residing within the highlight, her relationships and household. “‘Oh my God,’ I assumed. ‘Is he bare below there?’” she wrote, claiming that her trusted pal whispered to her, “I need you to get in mattress with him,” earlier than leaving the room.
Hayden solely referred to the person as a “well-known thirty-something British singer-songwriter.” She complied together with her pal’s demand by stepping into mattress.
“As quickly because the door clicked shut, my survival intuition kicked in,” the Heroes alum wrote within the guide, earlier than revealing what she instructed the unnamed man. “Look … I don’t know what she stated to you, however this isn’t going to occur.”
Upon leaving the room, Hayden started to pack up her issues to go away the yacht.
“I felt like I’d been kicked within the face,” she wrote, referring to the betrayal she felt by the unnamed feminine pal. “She’d confided in me, pampered me and handled me like her finest pal — then rotated and handled me like a name woman.”
The discharge of Hayden’s guide comes one week after she appeared on Jay Shetty’s “On Function” podcast to debate the memoir and, significantly, the yacht incident.
“The truth that I used to be 18, regardless that I’d lived such an enormous life and I assumed I used to be oh so mature at 18 … scientifically, your frontal lobes don’t develop till we’re what, 25, 26?” Hayden identified within the Could 11 episode. “So, regardless that I felt like I might make wholesome choices, secure choices, I wasn’t able to being absolutely conscious of what was occurring round me.”
She added that the bed room demand from the lady “took [her] without warning.”

