Hayden Panettiere shares terrifying expertise combating similar battle as her “Nashville” character

• Hayden Panettiere remembers the "terrifying" expertise of appearing out a postpartum despair storyline on Nashville whereas she was coping with the situation in her private life.
• "There was loads that I associated to, generally somewhat bit an excessive amount of," Panettiere tells Leisure Weekly. "It hit actually near dwelling."
• Panettiere says if sharing her expertise "helps any individual on the market to not really feel so alone and to really feel understood, then I'm all for it."

Hayden Panettiere is aware of there's nothing like the true factor, however some characters and storylines get somewhat too actual.

"After I learn this position and I learn the scripts I used to be like, 'If there's been a personality in my profession that I may play and do justice, that is the character,'" Panettiere tells Leisure Weekly, talking of her Nashville character Juliette Barnes forward of the collection' Netflix debut on Monday. "I may relate to her a lot, and went via every thing that she went via…. It was only a character that had every thing that I used to be dying to painting."

Followers of Nashville know that Juliette had far and away probably the most turbulent arc of any character on the collection. From a unstable relationship together with her addict mom, to her personal battle with substance abuse, to searing storylines coping with grief, Juliette spent a number of Nashville within the wringer.

"Like once I was coping with postpartum despair," she gives, "the truth that I acquired to go on the market and needed to carry out via it — it was terrifying, and really emotional."

Panettiere continues, "There was loads that I associated to, generally somewhat bit an excessive amount of. It hit actually near dwelling."

Nashville aired six seasons on ABC after which CMT, from 2012-2018. Although Panettiere was solely 22 when she landed the position because the troubled, gifted, and fiercely cussed Juliette, she'd already spent 20 years on display. She joined the core forged of the cleaning soap opera One Life to Stay at solely 4 years outdated, and labored steadily via stints on Guiding Mild, Heroes, and movies like Ice Princess and Keep in mind the Titans till Nashville creator Callie Khouri got here calling.

She remembers the early Nashville materials as "one thing that I may actually relate to. And to have the singing portion on high of it, it was a dream that got here true… I acquired to mix every thing that I really like about folks and characters and appearing and singing. It was my dream come true."

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However through the years, Panettiere has brazenly expressed conflicting emotions about simply how a lot she may relate to Juliette, and if, maybe, there have been occasions when life imitating artwork tipped over into painful instances of artwork imitating life.

Whereas Nashville was getting into its fourth season in 2015, Panettiere, who'd solely months earlier than given delivery to her daughter Kaya, famous "a number of misunderstanding" round postpartum despair that she was completely satisfied to discover on the collection, as Juliette started her personal journey via the situation.

"It’s one thing that's utterly uncontrollable, and it's actually painful and it's actually scary, and girls want a number of assist," she shared.

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She had additionally struggled with substance abuse, one thing Juliette went on to face. In 2022, the actress revealed she was given "completely satisfied drugs" at simply 15 to maintain her alert throughout interviews. However the drugs finally served as a "door that will open for me when it got here to my habit."

That very same 12 months, Panettiere elaborated on the connections between her life and Juliette's life: "After I was on Nashville, they actually wrote my life into it. So on the present, one of many storylines was that I used to be taking part in an alcoholic. One other storyline was that I used to be pregnant on the present, after which I acquired postpartum despair…. So I needed to go to work each day and be appearing out what I used to be really going via."

Two years later, she referred to Nashville as "very traumatizing, as a result of I felt like I used to be appearing out my very own life."

With a possible Nashville resurgence on the horizon now that the total collection will probably be hitting in style streamer for the primary time, Panettiere has moved from a spot of concern to a spot of delight relating to her turbulent time as Juliette Barnes.

"It's positively saved me extra in tune with who I’m and what's occurring with me. It was form of like a remedy session generally — we get to emote and we get to the touch on these factors which might be matters which might be actually exhausting for us. It's form of a special manner of doing remedy," she defined. "Nevertheless it has served me properly, and I'm pleased with the characters that I’ve gotten the prospect to play, and the matters that I've been in a position to contact on. And I hope to proceed to try this.

Although it wasn't all the time simple, Panettiere says that if her efficiency as Juliette "helps any individual on the market to not really feel so alone and to really feel understood, then I'm all for it."

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