The Heroes and Nashville star was found unresponsive at a South Carolina apartment on Sunday, August 16. She was just 36 years old.
Now, TMZ is reporting that Narcan was found at the scene.
Actress Hayden Panettiere attends the Variety Emmy Studio at Palihouse on May 30, 2013 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Windle/WireImage)
Narcan, also known as naloxone, is a medication commonly used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. However, the discovery does not establish that Panettiere suffered an overdose.
In fact, there is still considerable uncertainty surrounding what happened inside the apartment. Anyone can purchase Narcan over the counter, so it’s entirely possible that someone thought Hayden overdosed and used the product incorrectly.
That fact has raised questions about whether someone other than Panettiere also required medical attention — and, consequently, who may have received the Narcan.
Emergency responders were initially dispatched following a report of a woman in cardiac arrest. Paramedics attempted to revive Panettiere using advanced cardiac life support, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The circumstances have understandably prompted renewed questions about the actress’s cause of death.
Panettiere had been remarkably open about her previous struggles with alcohol and opioid addiction. She discussed those battles at length in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, and in interviews about her recovery.
But authorities have not officially determined that substance use caused her death.
An autopsy has been completed, and the Greenville County Coroner’s Office reportedly found no signs of trauma. Additional testing will be necessary before an official cause of death can be established.
Police have also indicated that there were no apparent signs of foul play or suspicious circumstances surrounding Panettiere’s death.
That doesn’t make this tragedy any easier to understand.
Panettiere became a household name after starring as Claire Bennet on Heroes before taking on the role of Juliette Barnes on Nashville. She also appeared in the Scream franchise and spent much of her life in the public eye.
Earlier this year, she spoke about rebuilding her life and looking toward the future.
The actress is survived by her 11-year-old daughter, Kaya, as well as her parents. Her younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, died in 2023 at the age of 28.
For now, Hayden’s loved ones and fans are left waiting for answers about how a woman who believed she had so much more life ahead of her died so suddenly.
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Boats pictured along the bank of the Yukon River in Grayling, Alaska. (Max Graham)
For the past few years, smokehouses in the Yukon River village of Anvik have sat empty.
After salmon populations crashed, dozens of Alaska Native communities along the river faced a stark new reality, one without the fish that fed families and sustained Yup’ik and Athabascan traditions for generations.
This summer, though, smoke once again wafted through Anvik, on the middle Yukon some 350 miles west of Anchorage.
The river’s two main species, chinook and chum, have recorded a surprising uptick in numbers. And in spite of state regulations that bar fishing for chinook, Anvik’s fishermen have caught dozens of the fish this year, plus even more salmon of other species — meaning that there are enough to share with elders, hang in smokehouses and store in freezers.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen the smokehouses smoking in five years,” said Robert Walker, former chief of the Anvik Tribal Council. “I was just amazed. People are so happy.”
The returning fish could represent a remarkable rebound for one of Alaska’s most iconic and culturally important salmon runs, though scientists caution that numbers are still relatively low and that more data are needed before they can be confident about a meaningful turnaround.
The harvest in Anvik, announced by Walker on a public teleconference with fishery managers and local leaders in July, also has inflamed a long-running political debate over fishery closures and government policies aimed at rebuilding the runs.
In 2024, Alaska state officials agreed with the Canadian government to a seven-year ban on harvesting chinook along the Yukon, which flows from northwest Canada more than 2,000 miles through Alaska to the Bering Sea.
Even though many Alaska Native leaders generally agreed about the need to limit fishing, they also criticized Alaska’s government for not formally including tribal governments in the decision-making process.
The recent chinook harvest in Anvik came in spite of the official moratorium.
Walker, in a recent phone interview, described the state’s implementation of the ban without input from tribal leaders as a form of “dictatorship.”
Alaska’s fish and game commissioner, Doug Vincent-Lang, said state officials wouldn’t have been able to reach a timely agreement with Canada if they had formally consulted with every tribe along the river.
But he pushed back against the idea that they didn’t get input from local leaders before agreeing to the ban.
“We talked to a lot of people downriver,” Vincent-Lang said in a brief phone interview.
“I think it’s working,” he added, referring to the agreement. He also noted that the ban includes certain exceptions, such as allowing fishing on tributaries when local spawning goals are met.
During the July teleconference, Walker described a scene of joy in Anvik. People in the village are “eating fish like they never ate fish before,” he said.
Robert Walker, former chief of the Anvik Tribal Council, speaks in the village’s tribal building in 2023. (Max Graham)
Some salmon advocates and fisheries biologist say the chinook run isn’t yet strong enough to warrant fishing. The numbers are still well below targets set by fisheries managers.
Roughly 32,000 chinook have been counted so far this season at a sonar station in Eagle, Alaska, near the Canadian border. That’s more than the state had tallied by now in recent years. But it’s still below average, and the final count is expected to be substantially lower than the goal of 71,000 set by Alaska and Canadian fisheries managers two years ago.
“While it is a little bit more encouraging, the runs are still well below average,” said Deena Jallen, a Yukon area fisheries biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. “We’re still not meeting any goals in Alaska and Canada.”
In a statement posted on social media last week, a leading Alaska Native advocate described the painful decision not to fish during closures that she and many others along the Yukon have made, and she called on fishermen to continue cooperating with government agencies with the shared goal of restoring the salmon runs.
“I understand the importance of passing on our way of life, our traditional knowledge and our culture to our children and grandchildren,” said Serena Alstrom, the longtime executive director of Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, a conservation-focused advocacy group with board members from communities along the river.
“Because of that, I have made the difficult decision not to fish when regulations require it. I don’t do it because it is easy or because I always agree with management. I do it because I believe those sacrifices give our salmon the best chance to recover for future generations.”
In a phone interview, Alstrom said she has heard about more instances of illegal fishing this summer than usual — not only in Anvik but on other stretches of river, too.
“It’s upsetting,” she said.
Later, Alstrom released another statement, saying the boost in salmon numbers this year reflects the “diligence of those who have chosen to allow these salmon to continue their journey to the spawning grounds.”
Most families along the river are continuing to make that sacrifice, she said in the interview. They’re doing that not merely for the sake of following rules but because they “understand that we need to have salmon at the spawning grounds,” Alstrom said.
In Anvik, the fishermen used a traditional fishwheel to catch chinook and chum, according to Walker.
They released most of the fish, but kept a few dozen chinook and more than 100 salmon of other species, he said.
The fishermen took only what the village needed, he added. The fish “went in people’s freezers, and people are jarring them, too,” Walker said.
Salmon strips hang to dry in Anvik in 2023. (Max Graham)
The Alaska State Troopers, which enforces state fisheries closures, have not observed an increase in illegal salmon harvests this season, according to spokesperson Austin McDaniel.
The agency issued five citations for illegal fishing along the lower Yukon during a salmon closure, including one for unlawfully possessing chinook, McDaniel said.
State wildlife troopers “are aware of reports of potential improper fishing practices near Anvik,” he said. “However, we have been unable to substantiate those claims at this time.”
But, McDaniel added, “our patrols indicate that compliance with Yukon River subsistence fishing restrictions remains high and has improved in many areas.”
On another river in Western Alaska, the Kuskokwim, fishing during state-imposed closures more than a decade ago led to prosecutions of Yup’ik fishermen, who unsuccessfully argued that harvesting was an expression of their constitutionally protected religious beliefs.
Chinook numbers in the Yukon initially plummeted more than two decades ago, and harvests have largely been limited since then. The run dropped to a record low of about 50,000 fish in 2022, down from closer to 300,000 decades ago.
This year’s run is now estimated at 103,000 fish, far exceeding pre-season forecasts.
Managers also counted nearly 1 million summer chum, which was more than forecasted and enough for limited fishing opportunities in Western Alaska communities, like Anvik, along the lower and middle river.
In a recent interview with KYUK, the regional public broadcaster, a Yup’ik elder in Russian Mission, 70 miles downstream of Anvik, described a sense of elation around the summer chum harvest.
“When I ate my fish,” said the elder, Alexandra Quak-aq Kozevnikoff, “I could feel that tingling from my stomach come out like [a] little quiver all the way around my body, even to the top of my head, and a big sigh of relief.”
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In her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, she described a yacht party in the south of France and how an unidentified friend (apparently not Diana Jenkins) betrayed her trust, luring her to a cabin.
“I walked into the cabin and saw a famous thirtysomething British singer-songwriter lying in a bed,” she wrote. “He was shirtless and propped up on a few pillows with his arms positioned behind his head.”
Hayden described: “From the waist down, he was covered by bedsheets, and I could see the outline of his body underneath. … Stella leaned down and whispered in my ear. ‘I want you to get in bed with him. He has a huge d–k.’”
In a state of shock, Hayden initially complied, before jumping up and fleeing the room. She booked a hotel and began packing her bags.
me destruye como en un podcast de solo 3 meses atrás hayden panettiere contó que por fin había podido superar todo lo malo que le pasó en la vida y tenía mucho por vivir pic.twitter.com/5yCwaCwqhs
Another incident that Hayden described in her memoir took place when she was 19, attending an exclusive party where most of the celebrities were in their forties and fifties.
“The men were nice enough, asking me questions about Heroes and whether I had plans to film more movies, and I answered them politely,” she described. “But I didn’t feel right, so I never let my guard down.”
Hayden recalled “an Oscar-winning actor and director” coming over to her and saying: “Well, have a good night. Just be careful when you leave because someone spit their gum out somewhere, and I got some on my pants.”
When she looked down at his invitation, she saw that “his testicles were hanging out from his unzipped fly.”
She left the party with all due haste. Hayden wrote that she knew that it was a drunken joke, but had obviously not intended to see anyone’s genitals — let alone a significantly older man’s while she was in her teens.
Did child stardom put her on this path? Or was it something else?
Though many first learned of Hayden Panettiere from Heroes or Nashville or possibly Scream 4, she was a child actress.
In the ’90s, that meant playing little Lizzie Spalding on Guiding Light.
Which, in turn, meant that she spent a lot of time working, facing rejections, and receiving enormous praise — all at an age when healthy childhood development would have her in school and leading a normal life with friends.
Did growing up as a child star leave her primed to be targeted by creepy adults, to be in an abusive relationship, and then to die tragically in her mid-30s?
We don’t know. But a lot of people have pointed out that she died only six months after fellow child star Michelle Trachtenberg passed away. The two knew each other and died the same year.
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Some on social media are spinning conspiracy theories, suggesting that whichever British musician — who would be in his 50s by now — or some other adult man might have moved to silence her.
We want to emphasize that investigators have not yet found any sign of foul play.
Hayden had worked on her sobriety. She’d written a memoir. She even came out as bi earlier this year. And she was a mother.
But having so much to live for doesn’t mean that terrible accidents do not take place. Some on social media have noted that a relapse can be fatal when someone has lost their former tolerance after choosing sobriety for an extended time. (That is speculation and remains unconfirmed at this time.)
We will continue to mourn Hayden and to keep her loved ones in our thoughts. Right now, we are all in shock.
Amid widespread speculation about the cause of Panettiere’s death, new details are emerging about her final hours.
And while this detail has yet to be confirmed, many are convinced that at the time of her death, Hayden was in the company of her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson.
Hayden Panettiere attends 2022 amfAR Gala Los Angeles at Pacific Design Center on November 03, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)
Hickerson is a native of South Carolina, and he and Panettiere flew into Greenville from Los Angeles the day before her death.
It’s unclear if he was the one who discovered her body and called 911, but it seems likely that he was her reason for being on the East Coast.
The pair met in 2018 after he moved to LA to try to make it as an actor.
According to Page Six, Hickerson found minimal success, and his “limited acting credits” include an appearance in the 2017 thriller film M.F.A.
In the early years of their relationship, Hickerson was arrested twice for allegedly assaulting Panettiere.
According to a police report from 2019, Hayden told police that Brian struck her “with a closed fist on the right side of her face.”
The following year, she was granted a restraining order against him. In 2023, Panettiere hinted that she and Hickerson had reconciled.
In an interview with TMZ from May (above), Hickerson described Hayden as “the most talented person I’ve ever met.”
He added that “it doesn’t matter who you spend Saturday night with,” explaining that it’s more important “who you spend all day Sunday with.”
Many have noted that that remark has taken on a macabre tone now that Hayden passed away on a Sunday.
Her passing was confirmed last night by her father and her publicist.
“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden,” Skip Panettiere said in a statement provided by her representative.
“There’s an investigation ongoing,” publicist Kasey Kitchen said in a statement.
Our thoughts go out to Hayden’s loved ones during this enormously difficult time.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
I hope you had some fun this weekend watching NFL preseason games. There were guys out there grinding for jobs, players who might someday emerge as key contributors for the teams where they earn a roster spot. That said, I wasn’t focused on the bubble guys. I was interested in the stars. And some key things were happening this week in the preseason games — and the greater NFL news cycle. This is Sound Smart, where I try to spin forward, dive deeper, think outside the box and read between the lines. The Los Angeles Rams protected Ty Simpson and played it nice and safe. Almost boring, in fact. The first-round quarterback had 84% of his passes travel 15 yards or fewer and 72% for 10 yards or fewer. In the first three quarters, there were a lot of rollouts and passes behind the line of scrimmage so that Simpson barely needed to think — operating the basics and letting everyone else do the work for him. I suspect that’s why coach Sean McVay said the following about the team’s preseason playcaller, Nate Scheelhaase: “I thought the coaches did a really good job putting guys in good spots. I thought [Scheelhaase] called a really good game.” The beauty of a preseason game is that defenses are as simple as can be. That makes life easier for the playcaller and the QB. In the final 10 minutes, Simpson and his coaches started to ramp up the difficulty and use more of the field — with a little more intermediate throwing and some targets toward the middle of the field. Ultimately, he saw pressure on only three of his 25 dropbacks. He had a tight-window throw on 8% of his passes. It looked easy for Simpson because it was very easy for Simpson — a stone’s throw away from 7-on-7 drills. It seems like the reaction has been unanimously positive about Simpson, perhaps because of his statistics. And while I’m excited about his long-term prospects on the whole, I’m not sure I saw anything particularly outstanding. But here’s the thing: At least Simpson played in control. At least he made the easy stuff look easy. Because I can think of somebody who didn’t. I was startled by Ward’s film. I hate to get worked up about preseason film, but I can’t really stop myself here. There was an astonishing lack of accuracy. There was an astonishing lack of … everything. If there’s one thing we know about the preseason, it’s that it’s deeply deceitful. I’ll never forget in 2015 when Sam Bradford absolutely tore apart preseason defenses with former Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly calling the plays. And I thought it meant something. It didn’t. Bradford was a mess and Kelly got fired after going 6-9. With Ward and the Titans, the same (but opposite) can be true here, where the second-year QB’s preseason calamity won’t translate to the regular season. But let’s just look at the numbers, because it’ll help contextualize my alarm. On 12 dropbacks, Ward attempted a tight-window throw on 8% of his passes. (Just like Simpson.) That should speak to an easy day for Ward: no risky or high-difficulty throws. So you’d think he would’ve been completing his passes, right? Wrong! He completed 41.7% of his passes (5-for-12). Even worse, he had a completion percentage over expected of -26.3%, second worst among all 91 passers who took 12 or more dropbacks this first week of preseason. His success percentage (23.1%) was second worst among those same 91 QBs. His expected points per dropback was tied for eighth-worst — alongside Colts QB Anthony Richardson, whose play is currently bad enough that Indianapolis can’t seem to find a trade partner. You’re probably also thinking that maybe Ward didn’t have receivers Carnell Tate, the fourth overall pick this year, or Wan’Dale Robinson, the team’s $70-million free agent acquisition. You’d — again — think wrong. And Tate, whose training-camp highlights have often appeared on the Titans’ X account this summer, saw three targets for zero receptions. This was a tremendously bad outing for Ward. It was also a small sample size — in preseason. But it looked too much like the lowest lows from Ward’s rookie season. I had hoped he was getting past all that. For now, let’s try to chalk it up to preseason. Let’s hope it’s just a whole bunch of nothing. Because, man, what the heck happened out there? LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Chicago Bears might have the most compelling and polarizing passing attack in the NFL (and I’ll have more to say about them in a story later this week). But while Chicago’s rushing attack may get neglected by the media, it has the head coach’s attention. Ben Johnson gets excited anytime he has the opportunity to coach or discuss the ground game. And so it was interesting to hear first-year offensive coordinator Press Taylor relay Johnson’s philosophy on the run game. “I don’t think Ben’s ever mentioned the word efficiency,” Taylor said last week. “We talk about explosives. We are trying to attack a defense. I think there’s a perception — a lot of people are going to run the ball. ‘We’re going to stay efficient. We’re going to control the clock. We are looking to attack a defense.’ “We’re looking to attack fronts to expose space, to create run lanes, to create explosives. We don’t look at the run game as a way to stay on track. We look at the run game as a way to attack defenses and really be explosive and continue to just put our foot on the gas.” All eyes are on quarterback Caleb Williams, whose flair for late-game heroics was incredible last season. He’s a former No. 1 overall pick, and his arm talent is otherworldly. He has the rare ability to generate explosive plays at any moment. And while we don’t often think about D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai in the same way, it seems like Taylor and Johnson would like us to. The 2026 season will be about further establishing that identity. FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Despite not having the new contract that he wants, Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez had been a willing participant in training camp. In fact, his presence had been infuriating newcomer A.J. Brown — to the point where the star receiver admitted he was looking forward to joint practices because the competition was getting too fierce between teammates. The underlying takeaway is that Gonzalez is among the best cornerbacks in the league. (And from my vantage point, he’s the best.) He should get paid as such. But when those joint practices started last week, Gonzalez was not on the field. It sure seemed like that was the cornerback’s first flex of leverage in his contract negotiations with the team. And he didn’t stop there. He wasn’t on the field for the team’s first preseason matchup against the Colts at Gillette Stadium. Patriots coach Mike Vrabel addressed Gonzalez’s absence. “Christian was unavailable — physically unavailable for the practice. That’s the clarification,” Vrabel told reporters after the team’s preseason game. “Just like other players that I told to have treatment, and everybody has a plan here, there were other guys that were in that same category.” The “clarification” is still quite vague. And that’s often how it goes when a player is holding in. If there was anything that would further entrench Gonzalez, it was the news that Seattle Seahawks cornerback Devon Witherspoon, represented by the same agent, Reggie Johnson, signed a $132-million, four-year deal. New England’s defense can’t afford to start the season without Gonzalez. The Patriots will need their best defensive player on the field when they kick off the NFL season in a rematch against Seattle on Sept. 9. They need to get a deal done. And it’ll probably have to be a deal that’s more lucrative than what Witherspoon got. EAGAN, Minn. — This was one heck of a statement from Vikings cornerback Byron Murphy about six-time Pro Bowl safety Harrison Smith, who retired after last season. “I would say obviously having Harry [Harrison Smith] back there, a guy who’s gonna probably tell you every single play that’s coming — it’s been different [not having him],” Murphy said at the Vikings’ practice facility in Eagan last week. “But obviously, we got guys stepping in. We got communicators like 44 [Josh Metellus], even the young guys are stepping in. So we got guys that still are communicators.” Minnesota’s defense is still incredible, starting at the top with DC Brian Flores, who seems destined to — sooner or later — find his way back into a head coaching position. Flores has been no less ruthless this camp, doing what he can to terrorize the two quarterbacks — and amping up the degree of difficulty, with help from stars like edge rusher Dallas Turner, as each QB tries to prove himself. Two weeks ago, I saw firsthand how quickly Flores’ defense can shut down the Vikings’ offense, with both Kyler Murray and J.J. McCarthy failing to complete a single pass in the 2-minute drill. Murray’s offense went three-and-out and McCarthy threw an interception. Even so, Smith won’t be an easy guy to replace. And you get the sense that maybe they won’t have to. There have been rumors about a possible Smith return, but Minnesota isn’t counting on it. Instead, they’re counting on Metellus, who’s beginning his seventh year with Minnesota. “It’s crazy, man, to be following after a guy for so many years,” Metellus told me. “And then you get to a position where you follow him so much that you just like step into his road, almost naturally.”Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
