Hayden Panettiere’s ex Brian Hickerson reveals horrifying abuse incident he didn’t want in her memoir

Hayden Panettiere’s ex Brian Hickerson shared a horrifying communicative from their troubled relationship, admitting he was abusive towards her.

Panettiere and Hickerson dated connected and disconnected from 2018 to 2022, though nan narration was tumultuous and marred by aggregate domestic unit incidents and arrests.

Hickerson spoke to TMZ astir Panettiere’s upcoming memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” successful which she writes astir nan home maltreatment successful their relationship.

Hickerson said location was 1 peculiar incident he didn’t want successful her book, but she included it anyway.

“There’s a communicative wherever I was drunk, right? Hayden was opinionated crossed nan room and I had a telephone successful my manus and I said, ‘Hayden I’ll springiness you 10 seconds to tally arsenic accelerated arsenic you tin earlier I propulsion it astatine you,'” he recalled.

“Who wants to publication thing astir themselves, right?” he admitted astir reference her memoir. “But you gotta beryllium susceptible and I did it. I did it, so.”

Hickerson said he misses Panettiere “every day” and that “of course” he thought astir getting backmost together pinch her.

“I went into specified a acheronian place, man, drugs, alcohol,” he recalled of their clip together. “Good God, almighty, she’s 5 ft 2 connected paper, 4 ft 11 successful existent life. I mean, travel on.”

In April 2021, Hickerson was sentenced to 45 days successful region jail aft pleading nary title to 2 felony counts of injuring a spouse aliases girlfriend. He was besides deed pinch 4 years of probation, ordered to be 52 home unit classes, and received a five-year restraining bid that bars him from going adjacent Panettiere.

The “Nashville” alum, 36, said astir revisiting her abusive narration pinch Hickerson successful her memoir, telling Us Weekly it was “brutal, traumatic, and emotional.”

“It was important for maine to connection that acquisition properly,” she said.

She added, “It’s a very embarrassing subject. I’ve ever seen myself arsenic specified a resilient and beardown woman. The thought that I could let thing for illustration this to hap to maine blew my mind. It blew nan minds of nan group that knew maine best.”