Hayden Panettiere’s estranged mom questions daughter coming out as bisexual: ‘Interesting’ timing

Hayden Panettiere’s estranged mom, Lesley Vogel, is questioning nan timing of nan “Heroes” prima coming retired arsenic bisexual arsenic she promotes her new memoir, “This is Me: A Reckoning.”

“I do not judge it was being hidden, but location is nary historical impervious that this is nan case,” nan erstwhile momager told Daily Mail successful an question and reply published Friday.

“I do deliberation nan timing of this coming retired is very interesting.”

Panettiere opened up astir her strained narration pinch her mom successful her Us Weekly interview — wherever she besides shared her sexuality for nan first clip — earlier this week.

“Unfortunately, we don’t person a narration correct now. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t time off nan doorway unfastened for nan opportunity to coming itself 1 day. It’s difficult for maine to say, but I’ve chosen to beryllium brutally honest,” she told nan outlet.

A rep for nan character did not instantly respond to Page Six’s petition for comment.

While discussing her sexuality (which she explores successful her memoir), nan “Bring it On” prima admitted she ne'er felt it was “the correct time” to stock her truth publicly, but she quipped it’s “better precocious than never.”

“It was either I was excessively young, and I was being forced to beryllium cleanable astatine each times. I was not encouraged to conscionable beryllium myself,” she explained.

“Then came nan play wherever it felt for illustration group coming out, particularly women, saying that they were bisexual aliases liked girls, was a fad. I was acrophobic that if I was honest, it was going to beryllium for illustration maine jumping connected nan bandwagon. It was a very difficult taxable to articulate properly. It’s sad I had to hold until I was 36 years aged to stock that portion of me.”

As for if she’s ever dated a woman, Panettiere revealed that she has — but, she has yet to autumn successful emotion pinch a woman.

“It was scary, though, because location were paparazzi ever waiting for maine extracurricular to travel maine everywhere,” she recalled, noting that she was “much much into women moreover arsenic a kid than … men.”

The Golden Globe nominee continued, “I person explored it, but because I hadn’t shared this pinch anybody, I didn’t really person nan courageousness to propulsion myself afloat emotionally into it. Because past if I did autumn successful love, that wasn’t thing that I wanted to ever person to hide.”

“This Is Me: A Reckoning” memoir will beryllium released May 19.