Hayden Panettiere Recalls Unsupportive ‘Nashville’ Set & Former Team: “Plenty Of People Who Made The Choice To Not Protect Me”

Hayden Panettiere is recalling her time on Nashville, saying the set of the ABC musical drama was unsupportive and isolating.

In a new interview with The Times U.K. tied to the release of her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, the child star also reflected on numerous negative experiences growing up in Hollywood.

“It’s just shocking to me how little empathy people had,” she said of Nashville. “There were plenty of people who made the choice to not protect me.”

In her book, she adds of tabloid hysteria and the paparazzi at the time, “I was raw meat laid out for a bunch of hyenas to devour every single day.”

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