Hayden Panettieres Shocking Encounter with Famous Undressed Man

Hayden Panettiere fought back tears as she relived a traumatic experience which saw her put in bed with a 'very famous man' when she was aged just 18.

The Heroes actress, 36, who recently , shocked fans as she revealed she was coerced into getting in bed with the 'undressed' older celebrity while partying aboard a boat.

Panettiere further discussed the harrowing incident - which is chronicled in her memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning - on Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast on Monday, admitting she realizes now how naive she was about the danger she was in.

Shetty said: '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.'

Panettiere responded: 'The fact that I was 18, even though I’d lived such a huge life and I thought I was oh so mature at 18… scientifically, your frontal lobes don’t develop until we’re what, 25, 26?

'So even though I felt like I could make healthy decisions, safe decisions, I wasn’t capable of being fully aware of what was going on around me.'

Panettiere claims the person who led her into the shocking situation was a friend who she trusted and saw as a 'protector' before they 'physically put me in the bed next to this undressed man who was very famous.'

The actress said she was led downstairs into a small room before being put in bed with the unidentified man, who she says behaved 'like this was just an average day for him.'

Nashville star Panettiere said she immediately became 'ferocious', adding: 'That lion in me, that fire in me… my hair stood on end...

Panettiere claims the person who led her into the shocking situation was a friend who she trusted and saw as a 'protector' before they 'physically put me in the bed next to this undressed man who was very famous'