Hayden Panettiere got ‘whippets and booze’ delivered to Nashville hotel room just three months before her tragic death

HAYDEN Panettiere appeared to still be struggling with her addiction problems just three months before her tragic death. The Heroes actress was promoting her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, in May of this year when she made a strange delivery order to her Nashville hotel, Page Six reported. Hayden Panettiere arrived to her book signing on May 19, 2026 in New York City Credit: Getty Hayden was interviewed by Tamron Hall in May about her book Credit: Getty According to the outlet, Hayden – who was 36 when she died from an apparent overdose on August 16 – attempted to order whippets and alcohol to her room. “Security at the hotel stopped a [delivery service] order to her hotel room, which was several industrial grade nitrous oxide cans that she was planning on huffing,” a source told Page Six. Sign up for the Showbiz newsletter Thank you! “She had alcohol and whippets delivered. They wouldn’t allow it up to her room,” a separate source told the outlet. The outlet claimed Hayden “wasn’t happy” when her order was refused. Read More Hayden Panettiere A friend of Hayden’s denied the report. “She was in Nashville for a short amount of time and slept for most of it. She also had private security with her,” Kasey Kitchen said. Hayden claimed to be sober and healthy while promoting her book after suffering from alcoholism and addiction for years. She has claimed she was first offered “happy pills” as a teenager to make her more peppy on red carpets. Most read in Entertainment Hayden and Brian Hickerson, here in January 2019, dated for about eight years until her death Credit: Splash News Hayden appeared on Today in 2024 to talk about her experience with addiction and postpartum depression Credit: Getty Hayden then said her addiction spiraled out of control when she suffered from postpartum depression following the 2014 birth of her daughter Kaya. “The first thing I’d thought of when I woke up was alcohol. Not my child, not my job, and not the rest of my life. I needed a drink to function — at 6 am,” she wrote in her book. She first went to rehab when her daughter was four months old in 2015. She last checked into treatment in 2020 for eight months, and was believed to have been sober since. However, Hayden died on Sunday afternoon at a rental apartment in Greenville, South Carolina. According to a police report obtained by The U.S. Sun, Hayden’s on-again boyfriend Brian Hickerson‘s brother Zach entered the apartment to discover the actress unresponsive in a chair. (Brian was sleeping in another room of the apartment.) Either Zach or Brian called 911, but an emergency medical team was unable to save her. According to 911 dispatch audio, she was treated for an apparent overdose. Hayden’s exact cause of death will remain unknown until cops obtain the results of toxicology tests in several weeks. Meanwhile, a criminal investigation has reportedly been launched to find out if anyone was responsible for the tragic loss. Comment now