The model, activist and actress Hayden Panettiere died suddenly on April 16, when the police found her lifeless body in a residential complex in South Carolina. Since then, information has been released in order to clarify this tragic event.
At the time of the discovery, next to the actress was her ex-partner Brian Hickerson, with whom Panettiere had an intermittent relationship since 2018 and who had already been arrested in the past on more than one occasion for mistreating the interpreter.
Just a few days ago the autopsy was made public, which ruled out any indication of self-harm or violence, raising the possibility of an overdose that would have led to cardiac arrest. The presence of Narcan, an emergency medication used to quickly reverse the effects of an overdose, also fueled this hypothesis.
Brian Hickerson breaks his silence after autopsy results
Hickerson has decided to break his silence through a statement issued by his lawyer to TMZ, in which he points out that Hayden’s death “remains the subject of investigation,” so it is important that the investigation “continues its course.” He has also taken advantage of this statement to support that, “as has been publicly reported, the police have confirmed that there were no signs of a criminal act.”
For her part, Panettiere’s mother, Lesley Vogel, had recently charged against her daughter’s partner, whom she had pointed out as a bad influence and assured that he had made her “lose her way.” In fact, he went so far as to classify him as a person who “we had been trying to get rid of for quite some time; he was at the moment of death, and that person was Brian Hickerson,” he said in an interview with NBC News.
The exchange of statements between Panettiere’s immediate environment and her ex-partner reflects the complex reality that the actress was going through in the last months of her life. For the moment, the authorities are keeping all avenues of investigation open.
