{"id":2666,"date":"2026-05-19T12:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/hayden-panettiere-claims-oscar-winner-exposed-himself-to-her-at-hollywood-bash\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:18:01","slug":"hayden-panettiere-claims-oscar-winner-exposed-himself-to-her-at-hollywood-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/hayden-panettiere-claims-oscar-winner-exposed-himself-to-her-at-hollywood-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere claims Oscar winner exposed himself to her at Hollywood bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128148509-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hayden Panettiere claims that an \u201cOscar-winning actor and director\u201d exposed himself to her when she was 19.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cNashville\u201d actress, now 36, details in her newly released memoir, <a data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"B0G7L8QSTK\" 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-Is-Me-A-Reckoning%2Fdp%2FB0G7L8QSTK%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2026%2F05%2F19%2Fcelebrity-news%2Fhayden-panettiere-claims-oscar-winner-exposed-himself-to-her-at-hollywood-bash%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">\u201cThis Is Me: A Reckoning,\u201d<\/a> that the shocking situation happened after a friend invited her to an \u201cindustry\u201d party at her Los Feliz, California, apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the party consisted of just her, her friend, and \u201ca small group of men, who were gathered together, talking, drinking, and smoking weed,\u201d she recalls feeling immediately uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Hayden Panettiere (pictured here in 2026) writes about an uncomfortable incident with an Oscar winner in her new book, \u201cThis Is Me: A Reckoning.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Jay Shetty Podcast<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cNashville\u201d actress (seen here in 2012) says the incident happened when she was 19. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9ABC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThese men seemed to be a little too comfortable together, like they knew something I didn\u2019t,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n<p>She goes on to detail that, after about half an hour, she was about to say goodbye to her pal when the Oscar winner approached her. <\/p>\n<p>He wishes her a good night and warns her to \u201cbe careful when you leave because someone spit their gum out somewhere, and I got some on my pants,\u201d before allegedly directing her to look down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI looked down and recoiled,\u201d she writes. \u201cThis well-respected, award-winning actor\u2019s testicles were hanging out from his unzipped fly.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>As she was leaving a party, an \u201cOscar-winning actor and director\u201d exposed his genitalia, she writes (Panettiere seen here in 2018). <span class=\"credit\">All Access \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Panettiere (photographed in 2026) says she was \u201cshocked\u201d by the incident. <span class=\"credit\">Elder Ordonez\/INSTARimages<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMen in Hollywood had always been kind and respectful around me. There may have been a peck on the lips here and an inappropriate comment there, but nothing had crossed a line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She adds that the incident \u201chadn\u2019t hurt me\u201d but left her \u201cshocked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the book, the \u201cBring It On\u201d star details her <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/12\/celebrity-news\/hayden-panettieres-ex-brian-hickerson-reveals-horrifying-abuse-incident-he-didnt-want-in-her-memoir\/\">physically violent relationship<\/a> with ex Brian Hickerson, which was marred by multiple domestic violence incidents and arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere also opens up about her <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/video\/hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual-reveals-details-about-past-milo-ventimiglia-romance\/\">relationship with \u201cHeroes\u201d co-star Milo Ventimiglia<\/a>, whom she dated when she was 18 and he was 29; <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/06\/celebrity-news\/hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual-details-scary-experience-dating-women\/\">comes out as bisexual<\/a> and writes about her complicated relationship with her estranged mother, Lesley Vogel.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The \u201cHeroes\u201d star also writes about her relationship with co-star Milo Ventimiglia (seen here in 2007) in the book.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cThis is Me: A Reckoning\u201d is out now. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c<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%2F19%2Fcelebrity-news%2Fhayden-panettiere-claims-oscar-winner-exposed-himself-to-her-at-hollywood-bash%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">This Is Me: A Reckoning<\/a>\u201d is out now.<\/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><strong><em>If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/19\/celebrity-news\/hayden-panettiere-claims-oscar-winner-exposed-himself-to-her-at-hollywood-bash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Panettiere claims that an \u201cOscar-winning actor and director\u201d exposed himself to her when she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/128148509-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}