Hayden Panettiere, the star of TV’s “Nashville” and “Heroes,” wrote in her new book that an Oscar-winning actor once exposed himself to her at a party.
In an excerpt of “This Is Me: A Reckoning” reported by People, Panettiere, 36, said she was 19 when she went to the party with a friend. Making small talk with a group of men made her uncomfortable, she wrote, so she decided to call it a night.
That’s when a “well-respected … Oscar-winning actor and director” came up to her as she was putting on her coat and pointed down to what he said was gum on his pants.
“I looked down and recoiled,” Panettiere recalled. “This well-respected, award-winning actor’s testicles were hanging out from his unzipped fly.”
The stunt “hadn’t hurt me and I was sure it was a drunken joke, but I’d never seen a grown man do something like that,” she wrote, according to People. “I was shocked.”
Panettiere also wrote about a sketchy friend who took her to a cabin on a luxury yacht where “a famous thirtysomething British singer-songwriter was lying in a bed,” per Entertainment Weekly. “He was shirtless and propped up on a few pillows with his arms positioned behind his head. From the waist down, he was covered by bedsheets, and I could see the outline of his body underneath.”
Panettiere says her friend pulled the sheet away and told her, “I want you to get in bed with him. He has a huge dick.”
“The shock was so great it didn’t even occur to me to say no,” Panettiere wrote.
However, Panettiere said, she didn’t let things go any further and made arrangements to leave the yacht.
As for the identities of these famous men, the “I Love You, Beth Cooper” actor wasn’t about to name certain names in her book.
“Things happened a long time ago, but it was to protect me and my company from being sued by some very pissed-off famous people,” she explained to The Hollywood Reporter.
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