{"id":2433546,"date":"2026-05-26T23:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2433546"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:56:53","slug":"hayden-panettiere-defends-memoir-claims-you-dont-make-that-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hayden-panettiere-defends-memoir-claims-you-dont-make-that-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere Defends Memoir Claims: &#8216;You Don&#8217;t Make That Up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/hayden-panettiere\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Hayden Panettiere;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Hayden Panettiere&quot;}\">Hayden Panettiere<\/a> has made it clear that she&#8217;s standing by the claims she made in her memoir, This is Me: A Reckoning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Wednesday (May 20), the actor appeared on the Tamron Hall Show, where she rejected suggestions that the book&#8217;s most disturbing passages were fabricated to boost sales, particularly the stories involving &#8220;very famous&#8221; men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t make a story like that up just to sell a book,\u201d she said. &#8220;Sorry, been doing this too long.&#8221; That then prompted Hall to agree, who added: &#8220;This has nothing to do with that. This is your story. This is your truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/shop?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=shop2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:COMPLEX SHOP: Shop the brands you love, anytime and anywhere. Uncover what's next. Buy. Collect. Obsess.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;COMPLEX SHOP&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><b>COMPLEX SHOP:<\/b> Shop the brands you love, anytime and anywhere. Uncover what&#8217;s next. Buy. Collect. Obsess.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among the passages drawing the most attention is an incident in which she describes being led by a person she had &#8220;grown to trust and see as a protector&#8221; to a downstairs area of a boat and into a room where an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/hayden-panettiere-recalls-being-lured-023438438.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:undressed and supposedly well-known Hollywood actor lay in bed;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;undressed and supposedly well-known Hollywood actor lay in bed&quot;}\">undressed and supposedly well-known Hollywood actor lay in bed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hall pointed out that the memoir has readers actively speculating about which celebrities Panettiere is alluding to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I wanted to tell my stories without dragging anyone else through the mud,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is still an industry I have to exist in, and people are not, like, readily willing to admit to what they did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another story from her memoir that made headlines was about an Oscar-winning actor and director who supposedly <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/hayden-panettiere-recalls-oscar-winner-183203636.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:exposed himself to her without consent;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;exposed himself to her without consent&quot;}\">exposed himself to her without consent<\/a> at a party when she was 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As she was putting on her coat to leave, she claims the man approached her under the pretense that gum was stuck to his pants. &#8220;I looked down and recoiled,&#8221; the 36-year-old wrote in her book. &#8220;This well-respected, award-winning actor&#8217;s testicles were hanging out from his unzipped fly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued: &#8220;The gum on the pants, however, was a head-scratcher. It hadn&#8217;t hurt me, and I was sure it was a drunken joke, but I&#8217;d never seen a grown man do something like that. I was shocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Panettiere is known for her roles on Heroes and Nashville. Her memoir, This is Me: A Reckoning, is out now.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Related News<\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/hayden-panettiere-recalls-oscar-winner-183203636.html\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 06: Hayden Panettiere attends the world premiere of Paramount's &quot;Scream VI&quot; at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on March 06, 2023 in New York City. 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