As we previously reported, the Heroes and Nashville actress was found unresponsive at a South Carolina residence on Sunday, August 16. She was just 36 years old.
And according to a police report obtained by Page Six, Panettiere’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, told officers that she had been taking numerous medications in her final days.
Hayden Panettiere appears on Amazon’s Style Code Live on January 4, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Amazon)
Hickerson reportedly showed police a “bag of medication” that Panettiere was taking at the time of her death. The specific medications were redacted from the report.
Hickerson and his brother, Zach, were reportedly at the Judson Mill Lofts when emergency responders arrived.
Panettiere was found in cardiac arrest, and first responders attempted to revive her before she was pronounced dead at approximately 2:30 p.m.
The police report also detailed the brothers’ reactions to the emergency.
While Zach reportedly became emotional as first responders worked to save Panettiere, Brian did not appear visibly emotional until after she was pronounced dead.
Authorities have not determined Panettiere’s official cause of death. An autopsy was completed, but toxicology results are still pending.
A 911 call reportedly referenced a possible overdose, and Narcan was found at the scene. However, officials have not confirmed that an overdose caused Panettiere’s death.
There were also no visible signs of trauma, and authorities have said there is no indication of foul play at this time.
Panettiere had been open about her struggles with addiction and mental health throughout her life.
In recent years, she had spoken publicly about her efforts to rebuild her life and maintain her sobriety.
Her death has left fans and former colleagues mourning a performer who rose to fame as a child before becoming one of television’s most recognizable young stars.
For now, her loved ones are waiting for answers about what happened during her final hours.
Wait a minute, INDYCAR is racing where? Yes, the streets of Washington, D.C. But not near the Capitol, right? Well, across the street. And by the Washington Monument and Smithsonian? Yup. That’s sick. In what is guaranteed to be a spectacle, INDYCAR drivers will navigate a 1.7-mile, seven-turn course on streets well known to the world, including Pennsylvania Avenue (the course does not reach The White House) and through the National Mall on Sunday afternoon. The FOX prerace show will begin at 11:30 a.m. ET on Sunday with the green flag scheduled for 1:13 p.m. ET. Here’s what to know about the Freedom 250 this weekend. Where Is The Course? The start-finish line is across from The Capitol on 3rd Street. It then takes a left on Pennsylvania Avenue — a street wide enough to include a pit road. There then will be a left on 9th, a left on Constitution Avenue and then a right on 7th where the Washington Monument will be in the backdrop. The cars then take a left on Independence Avenue by the Smithsonian to get back to 3rd Street. How Long Is The Race? Loooooong. The race, at 250 miles, is the longest street race since some of the early Cleveland airport races in the mid-1980s. The race will likely be close to three hours instead of the usual two hours. “It very well will be a three-hour race,” ECR driver Alexander Rossi told me and other reporters last week. “It’s awesome. We have a four-[pit] stop street race. That’s just really cool. “It opens up the strategy and what you can do and the variables that go along into that.” For comparison, here is the length (in miles) of the other five street courses on the INDYCAR circuit. Arlington: 191Markham: 189St. Petersburg: 180Long Beach: 177Detroit: 164 “It’s going to be tough. It’s going to be super long, especially on a street course where the races already feel long and there’s so much going on,” series points leader and three-time series defending champion Alex Palou told me and other reporters last week. “It will be like an endurance race, a survival race, where we just need to be able to stay alive, keep our nose clean and get to the end. It will be fun. It’ll be super challenging for everyone, and hopefully we’re good there.” So Will That Be A Problem? Maybe. “I kind of look forward to it because I love those sort of challenges,” Andretti Global Will Power told me and other reporters last week. “That last 50 [laps] will be pretty tough. I think once you see the end coming, things just get easier because you know you’re going to get there. “You’re probably going to be at the halfway point going, at [lap] 70 or 75, ‘We’ve got another 75 to go? Oh my God.’” Will The Heat Be A Concern? For sure. Well, the humidity. The mugginess of Washington, D.C., will make this a miserable race for the drivers. They train for it and they have cool shirts — shirts where cold water is bumped through to keep them cool — but the current INDYCAR is incredibly hot because it wasn’t built with the current aeroscreen in mind. “The humidity makes it much tougher because the cooling is just nowhere near as efficient — you go from St. Pete to Long Beach, it’s about the same temperature, but the difference of physicality is massive just because of the humidity,” Power said. Drivers do train during the offseason and then throughout the year to be able to handle the high temperatures. “I’m sure there’s going to be drivers out there that fall out of the seat, there’s no doubt,” Penske driver Scott McLaughlin told me and other reporters last week. “But at the same time, you feel like you train for this and get ready for it.” As of Tuesday, the forecast is for a heat index in the upper-80s. Not great but certainly not as hot as it was in Washington in the last month. “It’s going to test us for sure,” Pato O’Ward told me last week. “When you build in the humidity and the heat, that’s what makes it tougher. We don’t get a lot of fresh air into these races. “Some guys are going to feel it. I think we’re all going to feel it. There’s some that are going to feel it much more than others. Will It Be Physical? Oh, yes. These cars do not have power steering. It will test their arm strength. What About Pit Crews? The pit crews will be tested, too. Typically, the debate on the street courses is whether there will be two or three stops. This race likely will have four pit stops. Did They Adjust The Schedule? A little bit. Typically, on street and road courses, INDYCAR has one practice Friday, another practice and qualifying Saturday and race on Sunday. But to limit disruptions in the city, they are only on track Saturday and Sunday. That will put both practice and qualifying on Saturday. Ironically, because the track last weekend in Markham wasn’t finished on Friday, the schedule ended up being the same as it will be this weekend in Washington. The schedule means limited time in evaluating data and deciding on the changes to improve the car to get ready to race. “Markham being a two-day event was hard for everyone but at least we got a taste of it,” Andretti Global driver Kyle Kirkwood told me Monday. “We kind of understand what the cadence needs to be on a street course to be ready for qualifying at the end of the day on Saturday. “It’s going to be hard. It’s not going to be easy for anybody, but we got a taste of it last weekend, so it might actually help.” Will The D.C. Course Be Ready? All indications are that Penske Entertainment, which is handling this race (and also operates INDYCAR, promotes street races at Detroit and Long Beach and owns Indianapolis Motor Speedway), is on good pace. There are streets that they don’t get access to until this week, which isn’t rare for a street event. For instance, when NASCAR raced in Chicago, it didn’t get full access to Michigan Avenue until the day before the race. Will President Trump Be There? Yes. What Other Parts Of The Spectacle Will Be Cool? Don’t want to give everything away. But among the pagentary, this race will have an epic flyover. Will It Be A Good Race? Don’t know. This is part race and part spectacle. And it depends on who you talk to on whether that matters. “It’s the fact that this a race that is a showcase for our series and the nation,” Rossi said. “That’s really cool.” Of course, a good race makes it even a little more of a showcase. “Ultimately, we’re in the entertainment business, and if we’re not entertaining, then our jobs are going to be no longer,” Kirkwood said. “This is obviously going to be an event that a lot of people around the world, particularly in America, are going to be watching. … We want it to be a good competition, something that gets people jazzed up for INDYCAR.” But It’s Important To Win, Right? Yes, for two reasons. Drivers always want to win. But this also most likely will be the only time they race on this circuit. “I’m a competitor — I want to win the race,” two-time INDYCAR champion Josef Newgarden told me Monday. “I want my team to be successful, but I want the series to be successful, and I want to get as many eyeballs on the sport as possible. “I’m hoping that this D.C. event will draw more attention to our sport, which will draw more interest. As a driver, I’m going to be focused on the competition side more than anything. Everything else around it will sort of take care of itself.” Will There Be A Freedom 251? While the Washington, D.C., area potentially could have another race, it most likely wouldn’t be on this circuit. “It’s an event that as soon as it was announced, you were counting the days until you get to do it,” Rossi said. “As we all know, it’s probably going to be a one-and-done thing. “So I’m just super looking forward to getting there and experiencing it and doing something that very few people will get to do.”Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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Tucker Wetmore reveals he was originally planning to release a full-length album this year, but as his career continued gaining momentum and life became increasingly busy, he realized he wasn’t in the right headspace to create the project he wanted.
Instead of rushing the process with a new album, the rising star decided to shift gears and give fans something that felt more natural for the moment: a summertime mixtape. By dropping his six-song Sunburn Mixtape, Wetmore was able to still deliver a collection of songs while previewing the sound he hopes to explore more in his next chapter.
Tucker Wetmore; Photo by Stone Taul
“Honestly, I was working towards an album this year for a long time and this year’s just been crazy. There’s been so many things going on that I just wasn’t in the head space for an album,” he told Country Now and other outlets. “I knew I wanted to give the fans body music, but I still wanted to be proud of it and feel like I really did everything that I could for it. And I got to be able to accomplish that with this record.”
“I love the beach. I love sunshine. So it was a no-brainer for me. I was like, ‘Alright, we got a handful of songs that are already ready for the album.’ And I kind of just picked and chose a couple of the songs that made sense lyrically leading into this new world that I’m trying to build and also sonically kind of break the ice into the world that I’m trying to create.”
Tucker Wetmore; Sunburn
This mixtape arrived July 31 via Back Blocks Music/MCA/Mercury Records and includes three previously released fan favorites along with three brand new tracks. Fans can soak up the sunny, carefree days while letting songs like Wetmore’s Country radio single “Who Told You That,” “Sunburn,” “Proving Me Right” and more serve as the soundtrack.
He goes on to say that the ultimate goal when selecting songs for this mixtape was to create something “fun” and “lighthearted.”
“They’re all just fun songs. I feel like music is supposed to be fun, lighthearted. And I feel like we really hit the nail on the head with, or I tried to at least with this small little mix tape. It was fun,” he explained.
Fans were already familiar with and loving the three previously released tracks, but the mixtape also gave them three brand-new songs to discover: “Crazy To Yourself,” “98%” and “YOURS.”
While celebrating his latest No. 1 hit, “Brunette,” with a room full of members of the country music industry, Wetmore opened up about some of his newer tracks and the inspiration behind them.
Starting with “98%”, Wetmore shared that this story just “flew out” during a writer’s retreat in Arizona with Chris LaCorte, Rodney Clawson and Jacob Hackworth.
“The play on words was ‘good girls are never always good.’ And so I was like, ‘Well, like 98% good. Showing off the other two tonight.’ And just a fun, kind of just a tongue in cheeky kind of song. But sonically, that’s one of my favorite songs that I’ve created in the recent, just because sonically it’s cool between the guitar tones and the drum sounds. And it’s different. It’s not your traditional country, but it’s still got that country twang in it. But it’s also flirting with the ’70s and the ’80s, kind of Eagles, Bobby Caldwell, all the stuff that I love to listen to, which is kind of the direction I’m trying to go,” he explained.
As for “YOURS,” the hitmaker drew inspiration from something he says many “good old boys” can relate to, which is not always knowing how to put their emotions into words. Rather than writing a traditional love song, Wetmore found a way to express those feelings through the familiar imagery and relatable experiences.
“It was like ‘campfire cracking with the crickets and the frogs, moonlight shining on a Yeti and a dog.’ Just stuff that we know from small town type living, put it, and then related to a woman.”
All six tracks ultimately come together to capture the laid-back, feel-good spirit Wetmore envisioned for the project while also offering a taste of where his sound is headed next.
Sunburn Mixtape Tracklist:
“Who Told You That”
(Jordan Schmidt, Ashley Gorley, Hunter Phelps and Michael Tyler)
“Crazy To Yourself”
(Jacob Hackworth, Jacob Durrett, Matt Jenkins and Michael Tyler)
“98%”
(TuckerWetmore, Rodney Clawson, Jacob Hackworth and Chris LaCorte)
“YOURS”
(TuckerWetmore, Chris LaCorte, Randy Montana, Sasha Sloan and Carver Partin)
“Sunburn”
(Daniel Ross, Ryan Hurd and Jaxson Free)
“Proving Me Right”
(TuckerWetmore, Jessie Jo Dillon, Luke Laird and Chris Tompkins)
Tucker Wetmore will head back on the road in September to kickstart the second leg of his Brunette World Tour. That same month he’ll also join Brooks & Dunn for select dates, including a special stop at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on September 12.
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