Hayden Panettiere

The guest on the show discussing her career and new memoir.

“[air whooshing] Hey, everyone. Welcome back to On Purpose, the place you come to become happier, healthier, and more healed. Today's guest is one of those stories that I believe allows so many of us to understand more deeply, to expand our compassion, to recog…”

The guest discussing her personal experience growing up as a child actress.

“Yeah, absolutely. I, I wanted to read from your book, if that's all right. You-”

Discusses her struggles with betrayal and her process of learning to trust others.

“with negative energy and that are just not good people and that have been, I've, that have been drawn to me for whatever reason, and who I've not seen clearly, um, i-i-immediately. It t-took me a while. Like, they really were able to pull the wool over my eyes…”

Discusses her personal experience with motherhood, the challenges of co-parenting, and her upcoming book.

“um, that she was living an incredible life. Um, she's an incredible little girl, so happy and, and speaks f- five languages and, and, and rides horses and, um, knows that she's got two parents that love her. And she-- I, I, I know in my heart that she feels su…”

The guest discussing her personal struggles with anxiety and postpartum depression.

“And they're writing around you being pregnant to, to have the show continue, and then after that as well. And so talk to me about where the debilitating anxiety was coming from and what it felt like to live it twice.”

The subject of the interview discussing her childhood acting career and personal identity.

“I remember being aboutI would say around probably 12 years old and having a total identity crisis. I mean, I was standing in my room and I was, had been auditioning and, and acting for years, and I was sitting there going, "Well, who am I? Which part am I?" 'C…”

The guest sharing her personal experience with abuse and the process of writing her book.

“That's so beautiful to hear. I mean, it's... You, you just said now that in your own words, and I feel that, I feel like this entire book is a reclaiming of who you are and-”

The guest sharing her personal experience with abuse and emotional recovery.

“"I genuinely don't know. I don't know what in me is, is, is putting up with this, is allowing this to happen. I really don't." And as I said before, I never, there's never for a moment did I think that I deserved it or that it was okay at all. That was, that w…”

The guest discussing her career, personal struggles, and the impact of early industry exposure.

“Letting them get close to me, and for how long. Um, I have, you know, it's really, as I told you before, it's really important for me to have, to, to choose the, the people who are around me wi- wisely, and I have an incredible team of people who are, are not …”

Discusses her personal struggles with mental health, alcoholism, and the challenges of balancing a professional acting career with recovery.

“Oh, I struggled with that for, for years. It was an on-and-off, uh, battle for a really long time, and getting out of that, uh, depression was really difficult. And the fact that I didn't have the time to really spend on, um, on healing myself and, and, and fi…”

The speaker discussing the loss of her brother and her personal journey through grief.

“Oh, yeah. There's, uh, there was, is nothing in my life that feels like losing my o- other half, like the other half that I was, that was born to be my, my, the yin to my yang. Um, and we were so close and especially being the older s- sibling who it's your jo…”

The guest sharing her personal history and experiences with trauma and industry exploitation.

“Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, as I was reading your book and learning more and more about you, it was almost like my empathy for you just, like, grew every time and, and I mean that in your strength, for your strength in these situations, not as a sense of pit…”

The guest discussing her childhood career and her mother's role as her manager.

“... deeply is looking for. But I know in the book you also write about how there's this sense of what you were just saying about collecting all these notes and not wanting to almost let the kids down and become who they need-”

The guest sharing her personal history of being bullied as a child actress and her family's financial dynamics.

“And I mean, at such a young age for that to, like... That stuck with me, you know, all of these years later. Not all of my teachers were like that. There were teachers that were super supportive, but there was a, a substitute teacher who came in and she would …”

The guest sharing her personal history of abuse and her path toward healing.

“It took me a long time to finally see the situation clearly. I've had to do a lot of soul searching and therapy around this topic because allowing somebody to get away with harming me was so unlike me. The more I thought about it and analyzed it, the more conn…”

Guest who shares her story and expresses a desire to help others through her experiences.

“I pray. I pray. I just wanted to help people. I w- I, I, I want what I have gone through to be for a reason, to have happened, everything to have happened for a reason. And, and for that reason to be to help people, to help people go through whatever it is, wh…”

Discusses her personal experience with leaving an abusive partner and the process of reclaiming her life.

“Well, I thought I... At one point, I thought I had gotten out of it and gotten away from it. But I, I'm... It's like, it's like, and we s- we talked about before, it's like w- this, like, abusers, they weave themselves like weeds in, into your life, and there'…”