Hayden Panettiere Breaks Silence On ‘Heartbreaking’ Decision To Give Up Custody Of Her Daughter

Hayden Panettiere spoke retired astir turning implicit custody of her daughter Kaya in a clip for a caller occurrence of the Facebook video series Red Table Talk, released connected Tuesday, September 27. The actress, 33, admitted that giving up custody of her small one, 7, to her ex-boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko, 46, was perfectly “heartbreaking” for her, successful a clip shared by People. “It was precise upsetting. I mean, it was the worst. Signing those papers was the astir heartbreaking I’ve ever ever had to bash successful my life,” she said.

Hayden opened up astir giving up custody of her girl connected ‘Red Table Talk.’ (Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

Hayden got affectional arsenic she explained astir signing the papers to springiness afloat custody to Wladimir. “The papers were to springiness him afloat custody. I was going to spell enactment connected myself, and I was going to get better, and erstwhile I got better, past things could change, and she could travel to me, and I could person my clip with her,  but that didn’t happen,” she explained.

Earlier successful the discussion, it appeared that she was referencing struggles that she was facing astatine the time. Hayden had revealed that she struggled with intoxicant and opioid maltreatment during a July interrogation with People. She said that giving up custody astir apt would’ve been antithetic had determination been a antithetic conversation. “It wasn’t a discussion,” she explained. “If helium had travel to maine and said, ‘You know, I deliberation due to the fact that of wherever you’re astatine close present and struggles that you’re having, it would beryllium bully for her to beryllium implicit present with maine for a while,’ to which, I astir apt if I had had capable of a speech would’ve said, ‘Okay, that makes sense. I get it. I’ll travel determination to visit’ and worldly similar that.”

Hayden and Wladimir instrumentality a household travel with Kaya. (Tonia Atwel/246paps / MEGA)

Despite however hard it was to springiness up custody for her daughter, it seems that Hayden and Wladimir person a beardown co-parenting narration now. Kaya has lived with her dada successful Europe, and portion Russia invaded Ukraine earlier successful 2022, Hayden revealed that her girl had been evacuated from the country and was safe, arsenic Wladimir has fought to support Ukraine.