The discussion over custody that HaydenPanettiere wish she'd had but never got. Thinking about her 7-year-old daughter ❤️🩹
The hardest. Hayden Panettiere revealed the true circumstances around her daughter’s custody. The Scream actress opened up on Red Table Talk about how she relinquished her daughter’s custody to her ex-partner Wladimir Klitschko.
On the September 28, 2022, episode of Red Table Talk, Hayden talked to co-hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield Norris and guest host Kelly Osbourne about the “very upsetting” experience. She recalled that signing the custody papers was the “most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever had to do in my life.
Wladimir and Hayden have a seven-year-old daughter together, Kaya. In 2018, the couple split, and Kaya lived with her father in Ukraine while Hayden was recovering from postpartum depression and alcohol and drug addiction. “It was the hardest thing I could do,” she told People in July 2022. “But the best thing for my daughter was to make sure she was okay, take care of myself and make sure I could be a good mom to her. And sometimes that means letting go.