{"id":1013,"date":"2026-05-06T14:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual-details-scary-experience-dating-women\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:15:45","slug":"hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual-details-scary-experience-dating-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual-details-scary-experience-dating-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere comes out as bisexual, details &#8216;scary&#8217; experience dating women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/hayden-us.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hayden Panettiere is opening up about her sexuality for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The actress came out as bisexual in her <a data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"1538773422\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FThis-Me-Reckoning-Hayden-Panettiere%2Fdp%2F1538773422%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2026%2F05%2F06%2Fcelebrity-news%2Fhayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual-details-scary-experience-dating-women%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">\u201cThis Is Me: A Reckoning\u201d memoir<\/a>, out May 19, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/hayden-panettiere-gets-honest-on-loss-addiction-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussed it in an interview with Us Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow \u2026 that I\u2019ve chosen to share it with the world, I\u2019m comfortable to confidently say that yes,\u00a0I am bisexual,\u201d the \u201cHeroes\u201d alum, 36, told the outlet on Wednesday. \u201cI said it! This is the first time I got to say it out loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hayden Panettiere (pictured above in November 2025) has come out as bisexual. <span class=\"credit\">haydenpanettiere\/instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The actress discusses her sexuality in her upcoming memoir, \u201cThis Is Me: A Reckoning.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Grand Central Publishing<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>While Panettiere never felt it was \u201cthe right time\u201d to share her sexuality publicly, she quipped it\u2019s \u201cbetter late than never.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cNashville\u201d alum pointed out that when she was young, she was \u201cbeing forced to be perfect at all times\u201d and \u201cnot encouraged to just be [her]self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cThen came the period where it felt like people coming out, especially women, saying that they were bisexual or liked girls, was a fad. I was afraid that if I was honest, it was going to be like me jumping on the bandwagon. It was a very difficult topic to articulate properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The \u201cNashville\u201d alum told Us Weekly on Wednesday about feeling \u201cconfident\u201d and \u201ccomfortable\u201d with her bisexual label. <span class=\"credit\">Storm Santos\/US Weekly<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Panettiere (pictured above in May 2025) went on to talk about her \u201cscary\u201d experience dating women. <span class=\"credit\">haydenpanettiere\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Panettiere clarified that she has \u201cdated women\u201d over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was scary, though, because there were paparazzi always waiting for me outside to follow me everywhere,\u201d she recalled, noting that she was \u201cmuch more into women even as a child than \u2026 men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Globe nominee continued, \u201cI have explored it, but because I hadn\u2019t shared this with anybody, I didn\u2019t really have the courage to throw myself fully emotionally into it. Because then if I did fall in love, that wasn\u2019t something that I wanted to ever have to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI didn\u2019t really have the courage to throw myself fully emotionally into it,\u201d she explained.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Panettiere (pictured above in April 2025) added, \u201cIf I did fall in love, that wasn\u2019t something that I wanted to ever have to hide.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">haydenpanettiere\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Panettiere made headlines in 2009 when she spoke about \u201coccasions when you kiss your best friend growing up\u201d while discussing a \u201cHeroes\u201d storyline in which her character, Claire Bennet, hooked up with her roommate.<\/p>\n<p>She called the scene \u201cvery exciting,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pride.com\/box-office\/heroes-lesbian-moment-makes-hayden-panettiere-happy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Pride<\/a>, saying, \u201cWhen you are young, you experiment and you have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/09\/14\/why-milo-ventimiglia-would-never-date-hayden-again\/\">split from her co-star Milo Ventimiglia<\/a> that same year, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2013\/03\/27\/hayden-panettiere-engaged-to-wladimir-klitschko-report\/\">moving on with Wladimir Klitschko<\/a>, with whom she <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2014\/12\/15\/hayden-panettiere-welcomes-a-baby-girl\/\">shares daughter Kaya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After their <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2013\/01\/11\/round-2-for-hayden-panettiere-wladimir-klitschko\/\">on-again, off-again relationship<\/a>, Panettiere had a volatile, allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/04\/21\/hayden-panettieres-ex-brian-hickerson-sentenced-to-45-days-in-jail\/\">abusive romance with Brian Hickerson<\/a> from 2018 to 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>She has had public relationships with men over the years, including her \u201cHeroes\u201d co-star Milo Ventimiglia (pictured above in November 2007). <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The former soap stars shares a daughter with ex Wladimir Klitschko (pictured above in May 2013). <span class=\"credit\">Jemal Countess<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Her last public romance was an allegedly abusive on-again, off-again relationship with Brian Hickerson (pictured above in December 2018). <span class=\"credit\">Eric Charbonneau \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She called the experience \u201ctraumatic\u201d and \u201cbrutal\u201d on Wednesday, saying, \u201cGetting an abusive person out of your life is like trying to rip a weed out that is so entangled into your life, every time you pull it out another weed pops back up and you\u2019re like, \u2018I thought I killed this.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey always manage to find a way to slither back in, even if you\u2019re an incredibly strong-willed person,\u201d Panettiere continued. \u201cI <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/04\/04\/hayden-panettiere-hints-at-reconciliation-with-abusive-babe-brian-hickerson\/\">struggled to fully put a kibosh to it<\/a> for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, the former soap star <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/07\/06\/hayden-panettiere-reveals-secret-addiction-to-opioids-and-alcohol\/\">discussed her addiction struggles<\/a>, her grief over late brother <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/02\/20\/hayden-panettieres-brother-jansen-dead-at-28\/\">Jansen Panettiere\u2019s death<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/06\/celebrity-news\/hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual-details-scary-experience-dating-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Panettiere is opening up about her sexuality for the first time. 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