Hayden Panettiere is her own “romantic partner”.
Hayden Panettiere is single
The former Heroes actress has previously dated the likes of Milo Ventimiglia and Wladimir Klitschko, and although in March she was seen with her former partner Brian Hickerson – who was previously jailed for assaulting her – she insisted she is currrently single.
She told the Sunday Times Culture magazine: “Right now, I’m my romantic partner.”
In her new memoir, This Is Me, Hayden came out as bisexual and she admitted she never spoke openly about her sexuality in the past due to “fear”.
She admitted: “I’ve had a lot to say that, for years, I haven’t gotten a chance to say for many reasons, but a lot of them just were about fear and being a perfectionist.”
Hayden has 11-year-old daughter Kaya with Wladimir and relinquished custody of the youngster to the former boxer when their daughter was three during a trip to Kyiv in his native Ukraine amid her own battle with addiction and depression, and she admitted it is another period in her life she finds difficult to discuss.
She said: “The idea that anyone would think that I would just simply give up my child, it blows my mind. It couldn’t be farther from the truth…
“I’ve been scared throughout this whole process. I’m still scared, but I’ve been feeling empowered at the same time.
“It was a very difficult thing to figure out how to verbalise too. I had not spent time really talking about it.”
Although the 36-year-old actress lives in the US and Kaya is in Europe, they have a close bond and see one another as often as possible, as well as enjoying FaceTime calls.
She said: “It’s not nearly as often as I wish. I want my child next to me every single day.
“I have such a great relationship with her.
“It’s so unique because of our situation, the distance between us and having to find other ways to really bond.”
Hayden suffered postpartum depression in the months after Kaya’s birth but Wladimir was dismissive about her condition for a long time.
She said: “I’d never known anybody who dealt with postpartum depression. It took me months and months to realise what it was….
“[Wladimir] even has on his email [signature] at the bottom, ‘If you can control your mind, you can control everything’. Just the concept of [postnatal depression] did not fit in his mind.
“It took a very long time for him to finally believe me and realise that I was not bulls*******. No one would choose to go through that.”
These days, the Nashville actress has a “really beautiful friendship” with her former partner.
She said: “You don’t have to agree with everything that somebody does. You can still love them and try to figure out how to overcome those obstacles together.”
