Hayden Panettiere detailed her traumatic birth experience and battle with postpartum after welcoming daughter Kaya with former fiance .
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Hayden Panettieres Near-Death Birth Experience Revealed
Hayden Panettiere detailed her traumatic birth experience and battle with postpartum depression after welcoming daughter Kaya with former fiance Wladimir Klitsc...
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The actress, 36, revealed that she nearly died during childbirth while promoting her new memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, on Monday.
Though the Nashville star had a 'wonderful pregnancy', things took a dark turn during her delivery.
'I had a really rough birth to the point where I almost didn't make it through,' she said during an interview with CBS News' .
'And then the postpartum depression started,' Panettiere - who of Kaya, now 11, to Klitschko, 50, back in 2018 - added.
'There I am with this beautiful, healthy, beautiful baby girl and this very fortunate life, and I could not for the life of me be happy,' she said. 'I was so depressed.'
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Hayden Panettiere, 36, detailed her traumatic birth experience and battle with postpartum depression after welcoming daughter Kaya with former fiance Wladimir Klitschko
The actress said that she nearly died during childbirth while promoting her new memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, on Monday during an interview with CBS News' Gayle King
The Heroes star said that the experience left her disenchanted with the version of motherhood she had dreamt for herself.
'I had all these ideas in my head of what I wanted to do as a mom, as a parent. I think I was also scared because of what my mom did to me that I might do that to my child.'
It comes as the star is preparing for the release of her memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning which is set to be released on May 19
'I know that she knows that she has two parents who would do anything in the world to make sure that she is happy and healthy mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and she in no way feels abandoned.'
She praised her ex Klitschko for being 'incredibly supportive' even though 'he had no idea what was going on.'
The actress said that when her daughter was about four months old, she went to Klitschko and told him, 'I need help. I can't live like this anymore. Something is terribly wrong. And he said, "Okay, let's get you some help."'
Panettiere then went to a facility where she was treated for 'alcoholism' but not postpartum depression, which caused her to feel 'unfixable.'
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The actress said that by the time her health improved, she felt Kaya had already built a wonderful life in Europe and it would have been 'selfish' to uproot her.
The star's memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, is set to be released on May 19.
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