{"id":259176,"date":"2026-08-23T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/hayden-panettiere-explains-why-she-cut-contact-with-late-actress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:10:07","slug":"hayden-panettiere-explains-why-she-cut-contact-with-late-actress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/hayden-panettiere-explains-why-she-cut-contact-with-late-actress\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere explains why she cut contact with late actress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-08-23\" datetime=\"1787501407\" pubdate=\"\">23 August 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Hayden Panettiere&#8217;s estranged mother cut off contact with the actress because of her relationship with Brian Hickerson.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Lesley Vogel blamed Brian Hickerson for estrangement from Hayden Panettiere<\/p>\n<p>The Heroes star &#8211; who passed away last weekend at the age of 36 &#8211; had cited the strains of having Lesley Vogel also manage her career for their difficult relationship, her mom has insisted she had to &#8220;break away&#8221; after growing frustated at the &#8220;codependent&#8221; bond she had with her on\/off partner and their increasing drug use.<\/p>\n<p>Lesley told the Daily Mail online: &#8220;When Brian came into her life, the changes started to occur. Very early in the game, I thought he&#8217;s a modern-day gigolo. I know what he&#8217;s after.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would talk to both of them about it. I would say, &#8216;This is a codependent relationship, and it is not healthy for either of you.<\/p>\n<p>                      \t\t\t<!-- Dailymotion player (contact: Kutay.vardar@dailymotion.com) --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My sadness is that everything that I did, her father did, friends did, business people did &#8211; we could not break that codependent bond. It is so much more powerful than people understand.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;When Hayden comes out and talks trash about Mom, it&#8217;s because I had to break away. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I had to go no contact because I could not help her anymore. I could not change this pattern, and believe me, I tried. I didn&#8217;t leave because I didn&#8217;t care about her or didn&#8217;t love her. I put so much effort in trying to save her. You cannot save someone who doesn&#8217;t want to be saved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nLesley thinks Hayden gravitated towards Brian because he made her feel less inadequate than she had in her relationshipw ith Wladimir Klitschko, the father of the Scream 4 actress&#8217; 11-year-old daughter Kaya.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;Her child&#8217;s father is Wladimir Klitschko,&#8217; Vogel said. &#8216;He is one of the most exceptional people I&#8217;ve ever met.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But when you&#8217;re not feeling good about yourself, you don&#8217;t want to be with someone who makes you feel worse about yourself. So she found a loser. So every day she didn&#8217;t feel like she was failing, and he latched onto that and I suppose said everything to her she needed to hear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nShe noted Brian had &#8220;no career&#8221; and &#8220;no money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: &#8220;I know he put pressure on. I know he threatened. I know he did a lot of things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBrian and his brother Zach were present when Hayden passed away, and Lesley believes he has questions to answer about what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\nLesley claimed Brian &#8211; who has previously served jail time relating to domestic violence incidents involving Hayden &#8211; had told police the actress was doing her make-up in the apartment when he went out to run an errand and then took a nap on his return. She alleged he then told cops his brother Zach had arrived at some point and Hayden was then found unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how you can take a nap near someone who&#8217;s dying and not realise something&#8217;s wrong. How do you do that? <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;When the EMTs came it was for a cardiac arrest. People in cardiac arrest aren&#8217;t just lying still. They make noise.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I think Brian called his brother. My opinion. I think he knew she was deceased. Called his brother, and tried and built this story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/hayden-panettiere-explains-cut-contact-late-actress-1449488.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 August 2026 Hayden Panettiere&#8217;s estranged mother cut off contact with the actress because of her relationship with Brian Hickerson. 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