Hayden Panettiere: Giving ex Wladimir Klitschko custody was ‘very upsetting’

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“Red Table Talk,” obtained by People, the 33-year-old actress tells co-hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield Norris, and guest host Kelly Osbourne that signing legal papers in 2018 to give her ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko full custody of daughter, Kaya, was the “most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever had to do in my life.” Panettiere also claimed that the decision to do so “wasn’t a discussion” between the former partners.

It also meant that Kaya, now 7, would live in Ukraine with Klitschko.“If he [Klitschko] had come to me and said I think because of where you’re at right now and your struggles that you’re having it would be good for her to be over here with me for a while — which if I had probably had enough of a conversation I would’ve said okay that makes sense, I get it, I’ll come there to visit and stuff like that,” Panettiere said. ‘”Because of the way that it was done, it was very upsetting,” she added. “I was gonna go work on myself, I was gonna get better, and when I got better then things would change and she could come to me and I could have my time with her but that didn’t happen,” Panettiere continued on reconnecting with her daughter.

But at the time, the child star was dealing with an addiction to opioids and alcohol, recalling to People in July, “I was on top of the world and I ruined it.

I’d think I hit rock bottom, but then there’s that trap door that opens.”Panettiere sought treatment for depression but leaned on alcohol to deal with the stresses of parenthood.