Hayden Panettiere Gives Misleading Custody Interview on Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith

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Hayden Panettiere was on Red Table Talk Capping. As someone who has experience with child custody her story is not making sense.

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Hayden Panettiere is opening up about the dark times she endured while growing up in the spotlight.

During a recent episode of Facebook Watch's Red Table Talk, the Heroes alum talked to co-hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield Norris and guest host Kelly Osbourne about the various hardships she's faced amid her successes, both professionally and personally.

After opening up to PEOPLE in July about her opioid and alcohol addiction that nearly cost her career and her life, Panettiere traced the roots of her addiction during the Facebook Watch series.

Furthermore, she opened up about her experience with postpartum depression in the weeks following the birth of her daughter, Kaya, delving into the harrowing, detrimental cycle she found herself in during that time.

In addition, Panettiere spoke on the misunderstanding that went along with her depression — specifically referencing her now ex-husband Wladimir Klitschko — and opened up for the first time about giving up custody of her only child.

Between the hard truths of her past and the life-changing updates of her present, here are the biggest revelations from Panettiere's chat on Red Table Talk.

Panettiere has been vocal about her struggles with substance abuse in the past, especially as she's transitioned from a child actress to an adult in Hollywood. But now the actress feels like she's discovered the root of her addiction, and traces the pivotal — and "sketchy" — moment back to when she was 16 years old.

"Somebody who was on my team that I was working with came to me, and it was before this red carpet and I had been doing Heroes and we did press all the time and I was a little low-energy," Panettiere explained.

"It was, 'Here, take one of these, it's a happy pill, it'll give you energy,' so I didn't think of it at the time as a bad thing or a drug," she said. Thinking back, she compared the "happy pill" to that of "an Adderall," but revealed that the team member — a person she "trusted" — acquired the prescription stimulant from Mexico.

The actress admitted that she was influenced by what she "had seen family and the people around [her] do whenever they were depressed or stressed out, which was reach for a bottle." For Panettiere, the use of alcohol only made her depression "that much worse."

While the Nashville star revealed that she sought help when her daughter was around 4 years old — checking in and out of several treatment centers for substance abuse — Panettiere said nobody questioned her behavior prior, despite "people" seeing her "obvious" struggle.

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