Diana Jenkins Denies Hayden Panettiere Controversy

star has denied wild claims she was the friend who put Hayden Panettiere in bed with an 'undressed man' when she was 18. 

Panettiere, 36, who recently , shocked fans this week as she revealed she was coerced into celebrity while aboard a boat.

The Heroes actress fought back tears as she said on Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast that the person who led her into the situation was a friend who she trusted before they 'physically put me in the bed next to this undressed man who was very famous.' 

Following the revelation, false speculation spread online that Jenkins, 53, was allegedly the unnamed friend, due to her working with the actress on her 2008 photography book, Room 23.

Jenkins' representatives trashed the claims in a fiery statement to TMZ which read: 'Diana has had to deal with false online rumors before, and sadly this is just another example of that.

'So let me be 100 percent clear about this: It most certainly is not Diana, and anyone who claims it is her will be sued.'

Her team added that Jenkins has previously sued individuals for making similar false allegations against her, which have ended in settlements in her favor. 

The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Jenkins for further comment.

Panettiere further discusses the scary incident in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, with Shetty opening up the chat with: 'You write about a moment in your career where a friend of yours takes you onto a boat. You’re led to a room which has an older man in it and then basically told to perform sexual acts.'