Hayden Panettiere: Oscar Winner Uncovered His Testicles to Me

Hayden Panettiere is recalling an incident by which an Oscar winner as soon as uncovered himself to her at a celebration when she was 19 years previous.

The actress, now 36, opened up in regards to the encounter in her new memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, saying she had attended a celebration at a personal condo with a pal, however later grew more and more uncomfortable after chatting with a gaggle of males on the gathering.

As she was on the point of go away, she claimed a “well-respected” and “Oscar-winning actor and director,” whom she doesn’t identify in her memoir, approached her when she was placing on her coat. It was his subsequent actions that left her “shocked.”

Panettiere stated in her ebook that the person pointed to his pants, claiming he had chewing gum caught to them. “I looked down and recoiled,” she wrote. “This well-respected, award-winning actor’s testicles were hanging out from his unzipped fly.”

The Scream star stated she wasn’t bodily harmed by the interplay, however was undoubtedly left startled. “The gum on the pants, however, was a head-scratcher,” she wrote. “It hadn’t hurt me and I was sure it was a drunken joke, but I’d never seen a grown man do something like that. I was shocked.”

Panettiere admitted that she didn’t inform her pal who she attended the occasion with in regards to the incident as she felt “the moment had passed,” including that she got here to the conclusion “some older men had just grown up with no manners.”

In This Is Me: A Reckoning, which hit bookstands on May 19, the Nashville actress will get candid about her previous trauma, the realities of kid stardom, substance abuse and her path to restoration, amongst different private {and professional} struggles.

Ahead of its launch, Panettiere spoke with The Hollywood Reporter, sharing why she selected to call some celebrities in her memoir, however hold others nameless, such because the Oscar winner.

“It was a bad look for them and [the people I didn’t name] were generally people within my industry,” she stated. “They’re people I could run into again. I didn’t want to put myself in that position. Things happened a long time ago, but it was to protect me and my company from being sued by some very pissed-off famous people.”