The ‘sketchy’ moment Hayden Panettiere received a ‘happy pill’ on the red carpet

Hayden Panettiere is ready to open up about her addiction story.

Panettiere sat down with Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield Norris and guest host Kelly Osbourne on this week’s « Red Table Talk. » The ‘Heroes’ actress, 33, traced the roots of her addiction to Hollywood and her teenage years.

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« Somebody who was on my team that I was working with came up to me, and it was before that red carpet and I had done ‘Heroes’ and we were pressuring all the time and I was kinda short of energy, » Panettiere said. , according People.

« It was, ‘Here, take one, 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. «

Panettiere, who has been playing professionally since 1994’s « One Life to Live » and appeared in a commercial before he was 1, thinks the « happy pill » was something « similar to an Adderall. »

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« I should have thought, ‘That’s so sketchy,’ but I didn’t because I trusted the person, » Panettiere said. « It gave me that little bit of energy and I didn’t feel stoned and out of control, but I felt happy and looking forward to doing interviews, yeah. »

Episodes of « Red Table Talk » air Wednesdays on Facebook Watch.