Considering her memoir details long-term struggles with alcohol and opioid addiction, that seems pretty likely. No cause of death has been disclosed, though.
She also struggled for a long time with post-partum depression.
In 2015, she stated that following the birth of her daughter she experienced postpartum depression. In her appearance on Live with Kelly and Michael in September 2015, she said that it is “scary and needs to be talked about”.
Panettiere relinquished full custody of her daughter to [her ex-husband, who she got along with] in 2018 amid struggles with long term postpartum depression and addiction.
From her Wikipedia page.
She just released her memoir in May too.
I want to add that she had a boyfriend in 2020 where he was physical:
In 2020, they broke up after he was arrested for corporal injury on a spouse/cohabitant, assault, and intimidating a witness (Panettiere). The charges stemmed from alleged incidents between May 2019 and June 2020.
Considering her memoir details long-term struggles with alcohol and opioid addiction, that seems pretty likely. No cause of death has been disclosed, though.
She also struggled for a long time with post-partum depression.
From her Wikipedia page.
She just released her memoir in May too.
I want to add that she had a boyfriend in 2020 where he was physical: