Hayden Panettiere is “ready and prepared” for her daughter to follow in her footsteps and date a much-older man in the future.
Hayden Panettiere was 12 years younger than Milo Ventimiglia
The 36-year-old actress dated her Heroes co-star Milo Ventimiglia for almost two years from when she was just 18 and he was 30, and she has insisted there was nothing “creepy” or “inappropriate” about their relationship.
Reflecting on the relationship, Hayden – who has 11-year-old daughter Kaya with former partner Wiladimir Klitschko – told Entertainment Weekly: “That’s hard. My daughter’s 11, so I’m trying to think of how I would feel.
“I’m sure she’s going to do exactly what Mommy did.
“I’m ready and prepared for it, but I think it’s about the person. I was working with him all the time. My family knew him well. I was also … At 18, I lived so much life that he almost couldn’t count me as being 18. So Milo and I, even though he was 30, had a lot more in common than people might think.“But if it was somebody that was inappropriate, if it came off inappropriate or was somebody that my parents were like, ‘No, this is just a creepy situation,’ then they never would’ve allowed it to happen.”
Hayden has opened up about her life, including her public relationships, in her new memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, and she was happy to share her side of the story.
She said: “I’ve been in this industry for my entire life and there’ve been a lot of stories and preconceived ideas of who I am since I was about — that really started at 16 years old.
“I get to tell people the truth. I get to tell them what really happened, and what really happened is generally more entertaining than anything that anyone could come up with.”
The Nashville star previously admitted she was blindsided when Milo ended their relationship.
She told Us Weekly: “It was so out of left field, nothing that big or explosive had happened. Nothing had really gone wrong. Nobody cheated.
“I remember the look on his face being pure shock at how visceral and massive my negative reaction was, and he immediately took it back.”
Hayden explained that Milo initially asked to get back together because he was so overwhelmed by her reaction.
The Hollywood star said: “One hundred percent it was only because I was over the toilet, hysterically crying. It was like my world had crumbled.”
