Hayden Panettiere is recalling an incident wherein an Oscar winner as soon as uncovered himself to her at a celebration when she was 19 years outdated.
The actress, now 36, opened up concerning the encounter in her new memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, saying she had attended a celebration at a non-public residence with a buddy, however later grew more and more uncomfortable after chatting with a bunch of males on the gathering.
As she was on the point of go away, she claimed a “well-respected” and “Oscar-winning actor and director,” whom she doesn’t title in her memoir, approached her when she was placing on her coat. It was his subsequent actions that left her “shocked.”
Panettiere mentioned in her guide that the person pointed to his pants, claiming he had chewing gum caught to them. “I looked down and recoiled,” she wrote. “This well-respected, award-winning actor’s testicles were hanging out from his unzipped fly.”
The Scream star mentioned she wasn’t bodily harmed by the interplay, however was undoubtedly left startled. “The gum on the pants, however, was a head-scratcher,” she wrote. “It hadn’t hurt me and I was sure it was a drunken joke, but I’d never seen a grown man do something like that. I was shocked.”
Panettiere admitted that she didn’t inform her buddy who she attended the celebration with concerning the incident as she felt “the moment had passed,” including that she got here to the conclusion “some older men had just grown up with no manners.”
In This Is Me: A Reckoning, which hit bookstands on Could 19, the Nashville actress will get candid about her previous trauma, the realities of kid stardom, substance abuse and her path to restoration, amongst different private {and professional} struggles.
Forward of its launch, Panettiere spoke with The Hollywood Reporter, sharing why she selected to call some celebrities in her memoir, however preserve others nameless, such because the Oscar winner.
“It was a bad look for them and [the people I didn’t name] were generally people within my industry,” she mentioned. “They’re people I could run into again. I didn’t want to put myself in that position. Things happened a long time ago, but it was to protect me and my company from being sued by some very pissed-off famous people.”
