{"id":241070,"date":"2026-05-19T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/hayden-panettiere-says-an-oscar-winning-actor-exposed-his-genitals-to-her-when-she-was-19\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:32:22","slug":"hayden-panettiere-says-an-oscar-winning-actor-exposed-his-genitals-to-her-when-she-was-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/hayden-panettiere-says-an-oscar-winning-actor-exposed-his-genitals-to-her-when-she-was-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere Says an Oscar-Winning Actor Exposed His Genitals to Her When She Was 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"\/tags\/hayden-panettiere\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Hayden Panettiere<\/strong><\/a> has published her memoir, &#8220;This Is Me: A Reckoning,&#8221; and she&#8217;s spilling a lot of details about her life and Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old <em>Heroes <\/em>and <em>Nashville <\/em>alum revealed that, when she was only 19 years old, she was leaving a private party at an apartment when an &#8220;Oscar-winning actor and director,&#8221; who she called &#8220;well respected,&#8221; exposed himself.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hayden-191.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hayden-191-788x1182.jpg\" alt=\"Hayden Panettiere photo from when she was 19 years old\" class=\"wp-image-2214098\" data-mwl-img-id=\"2214098\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hayden Panettiere at age 19 in 2009. Photo: Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which actor and director actually exposed himself to Hayden Panettiere?<\/h3>\n<p>Apparently, while she was getting ready to leave, this award-winner pointed to his pants to seemingly suggest he had gum stuck on them. <strong>Hayden <\/strong>chose not to name the person in question.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hayden-19.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hayden-19-788x1105.jpg\" alt=\"Hayden Panettiere photo from when she was 19 years old\" class=\"wp-image-2214099\" data-mwl-img-id=\"2214099\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hayden Panettiere at age 19 in 2009. Photo: Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hayden-revealed-her-reaction-to-seeing-the-man-s-genitalia\">Hayden revealed her reaction to seeing the man&#8217;s genitalia <\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI looked down and recoiled. This well-respected, award-winning actor\u2019s testicles were hanging out from his unzipped fly,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;The gum on the pants, however, was a head-scratcher. It hadn\u2019t hurt me and I was sure it was a drunken joke, but I\u2019d never seen a grown man do something like that. I was shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She hadn&#8217;t told anyone she was with because \u201csome older men had just grown up with no manners.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See other recent Hayden Panettiere headlines relating to her memoir:<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/06\/hayden-panettiere-gets-candid-about-milo-ventimiglia-relationship-their-point-of-contention-why-he-took-her-back-more-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hayden Panettiere<\/strong> Gets Candid About <strong>Milo Ventimiglia<\/strong> Relationship: Their \u2018Point of Contention,\u2019 Why He \u2018Took Her Back,\u2019 &amp; More Revealed.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/11\/hayden-panettiere-recalls-shocking-moment-she-was-put-in-bed-with-undressed-very-famous-man-when-she-was-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hayden Panettiere<\/strong> Recalls \u2018Shocking\u2019 Moment She Was Put in Bed with \u2018Undressed\u2019 &amp; \u2018Very Famous\u2019 Man When She Was 18.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/19\/hayden-panettiere-says-an-oscar-winning-actor-exposed-his-genitals-to-her-when-she-was-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hayden Panettiere Says an Oscar-Winning Actor Exposed His Genitals to Her When She Was 19<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/19\/hayden-panettiere-says-an-oscar-winning-actor-exposed-his-genitals-to-her-when-she-was-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Hayden Panettiere has published her memoir, &#8220;This Is Me: A Reckoning,&#8221; and she&#8217;s spilling a lot of details about her life and Hollywood. The 36-year-old Heroes and Nashville alum revealed that, when she was only 19 years old, she was leaving a private party at an apartment when an &#8220;Oscar-winning actor and director,&#8221; who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}