Hayden Panettiere revealed that nan “very famous” and “undressed” man she was forced into furniture pinch astatine conscionable 18 years aged was a “famous thirty-something British singer-songwriter.”
The character divulged nan accusation connected his personality successful her caller memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” which was released connected Tuesday, aft she initially opened up astir nan incident on Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast.
Panettiere, 36, writes that nan horrifying acquisition occurred during a travel to nan South of France aboard what she describes arsenic a “super yacht” filled pinch celebrities.
At nan time, she was walking pinch a adjacent friend, whom she refers to only pinch nan pseudonym Stella McAmis.
The travel took a acheronian move towards nan extremity erstwhile Panettiere says McAmis approached her during meal and asked her to travel downstairs to meet someone.
McAmis led nan “Nashville” alum done a constrictive hallway and into a backstage compartment wherever Panettiere discovered nan “famous thirty-something British singer-songwriter” shirtless successful furniture nether sheets.
“‘Oh my God,’ I thought. ‘Is he naked nether there?'” she writes, claiming her trusted friend whispered to her, “I want you to get successful furniture pinch him. He has a immense dick,” earlier leaving them unsocial successful nan room.
Though Panettiere writes that her bosom was “pounding” pinch fear, her “thoughts were a blur” and she initially followed nan friend’s orders since she was truthful used to being “managed” by others arsenic a kid star.
However, erstwhile she was unsocial pinch nan man, she realized she couldn’t fto nan business spell immoderate further.
“Look,” she recalls saying, “I don’t cognize what she said to you, but this is not going to happen. Shen past hurried retired of nan room and made arrangements to time off nan yacht arsenic soon arsenic possible.
“I wasn’t scared, but I felt for illustration I’d been kicked successful nan face,” she writes of her erstwhile friend’s actions. “She’d confided successful me, making out me, and treated maine for illustration her champion friend — past turned astir and treated maine for illustration a telephone girl. I deserved amended than that, by a lot.”
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The “Heroes” alum has been keeping her friend’s existent personality a secret, which initially led fans to speculate it was “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum Diana Jenkins.
But nan erstwhile Bravo prima unopen down nan rumors pinch a connection via her rep connected May 13.
“Diana has had to woody pinch mendacious online rumors before, and sadly this is conscionable different illustration of that,” Jenkins’ spokesperson told TMZ. “So fto maine beryllium 100 percent clear astir this: It astir surely is not Diana, and anyone who claims it is her will beryllium sued.”
When asked why she continues to support nan musician’s personality a secret, Panettiere admitted it is owed to nan fearfulness of being sued.
“It was a bad look for them and [the group I didn’t name] were mostly group wrong my industry,” she told nan Hollywood Reporter earlier this month. “They’re group I could tally into again. I didn’t want to put myself successful that position.”
She added, “Things happened a agelong clip ago, but it was to protect maine and my institution from being sued by immoderate very pissed-off celebrated people.”