Hayden Panettiere claims Oscar winner exposed himself to her at Hollywood bash

Hayden Panettiere claims that an “Oscar-winning character and director” exposed himself to her erstwhile she was 19.

The “Nashville” actress, now 36, specifications successful her recently released memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” that nan shocking business happened aft a friend invited her to an “industry” statement astatine her Los Feliz, California, apartment.

Noting that nan statement consisted of conscionable her, her friend, and “a mini group of men, who were gathered together, talking, drinking, and smoking weed,” she recalls emotion instantly uncomfortable.

“These men seemed to beryllium a small excessively comfortable together, for illustration they knew thing I didn’t,” she writes.

She goes connected to item that, aft astir half an hour, she was astir to opportunity goodbye to her pal erstwhile nan Oscar victor approached her.

He wishes her a bully nighttime and warns her to “be observant erstwhile you time off because personification spit their gum retired somewhere, and I sewage immoderate connected my pants,” earlier allegedly directing her to look down.

“I looked down and recoiled,” she writes. “This well-respected, award-winning actor’s testicles were hanging retired from his unzipped fly.

“Men successful Hollywood had ever been benignant and respectful astir me. There whitethorn person been a peck connected nan lips present and an inappropriate remark there, but thing had crossed a line.”

She adds that nan incident “hadn’t wounded me” but near her “shocked.”

Elsewhere successful nan book, nan “Bring It On” prima specifications her physically convulsive relationship pinch ex Brian Hickerson, which was marred by aggregate home unit incidents and arrests.

Panettiere besides opens up astir her relationship pinch “Heroes” co-star Milo Ventimiglia, whom she dated erstwhile she was 18 and he was 29; comes retired arsenic bisexual and writes astir her analyzable narration pinch her estranged mother, Lesley Vogel.

Vogel, who was besides her daughter’s manager, has since deed backmost astatine Panettiere’s recollections connected her property tour, telling Page Six exclusively that she believes “the coming play is partially to waste books.”

“This Is Me: A Reckoning” is retired now.

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