Hayden Panettiere<\/a> insisted she isn’t lying about the sordid experiences she had in showbiz because she declined to name names in her memoir, This is Me: A Reckoning, which was released May 12.<\/p>\n “I wanted to tell my stories without dragging anyone else through the mud,” the actress, 36, said on The Tamron Hall Show<\/a> on Wednesday, May 20. “As much as I wanted to call people out<\/a>, this is still an industry that I have to exist in, and people are not readily willing to admit to what they did.”<\/p>\n She insisted that has “nothing to do” with trying to sell her book.<\/p>\n “You don’t make a story like that up to sell a book,” the Nashville<\/a> star said. “Sorry, I’ve been doing this too long.”<\/p>\n Hayden Panettiere appeared on ‘The Tamron Hall Show’ to talk about her book.@TamronHallShow\/Youtube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hall<\/a> suggested she has set off a “whodunit” as readers guess the identities of the stars in question based on their descriptions and the description of the events that occurred.<\/p>\n Panettiere mentioned that someone she \u201chad grown to trust and see as a protector\u201d put her in bed with a \u201cvery famous\u201d and \u201cundressed\u201d<\/a> man when she was 18.<\/p>\n Hayden Panettiere dropped more hints about the identities of the guilty parties while promoting the book.@TamronHallShow\/Youtube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She told Jay Shetty<\/strong>‘s “On Purpose” podcast on Monday, May 11, that the man in question was a \u201cfamous thirty-something British singer-songwriter.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n The woman in question has been rumored to be Diana Jenkins<\/strong> of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/a>, who has denied it.<\/p>\n Panettiere also mentioned that she was sexually harassed by an Oscar winner, who told her that he had gum on his pants.<\/p>\n “I looked down and recoiled,” she wrote. “This well-respected, award-winning actor\u2019s testicles were hanging out from his unzipped fly.\u201d<\/p>\n ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ star Diana Jenkins denied allegations that she put Panettiere in the bad situation described in the tome.MEGA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Others are unhappy that the Heroes star included them in her truth, such as ex Brian Hickerson, whom she accused of abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n Panettiere’s estranged mother, Lesley Vogel<\/strong>, was upset her daughter came out as bisexual<\/a> in her tome.<\/p>\n \u201cI do not believe it was being hidden, but there is no historic proof that this is the case<\/a>,\u201d she told Daily Mail in an interview published May 8. \u201cI do think the timing of this coming out is very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n Hayden Panettiere also wrote about ex-fiance Wladimir Klitschko and the loss of her brother Jansen Panettiere.MEGA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the book, Panettiere also details her struggles with postpartum depression, addiction, daughter Kaya<\/strong>, 11, living with ex-fiance Wladimir Klitschko<\/strong> and the loss of her brother Jansen Panettiere<\/strong>, who died in 2023 at age 28 from heart issues.<\/p>\n She also addresses her 2006-2008 relationship with Milo Ventimiglia<\/a>, whom she started dating when he was 30 and she was 18.<\/p>\n Read more at OK!<\/a><\/p>\n Get OK!’s biggest scoops and scandals delivered right to your inbox. 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