Celebrities Pay Tribute to Hayden Panettiere, Highlight Child Star Mistreatment

Hayden Panettiere died; her death prompted emergency intervention and raised questions about child star welfare in the entertainment industry.

Hayden Panettiere, who spent her life in the public eye from childhood onward, has died — and in the silence that follows, two women who know the industry from the inside have chosen to speak not only of her, but of the system that shaped her. Rose McGowan and Anna Paquin, offering tributes that became something closer to testimony, named the entertainment industry's treatment of child performers as a structural harm, normalized and largely unexamined. Her death, and the desperate last-moment intervention it involved, has placed an old and recurring question back at the center: what does an in

Celebrities Pay Tribute to Hayden Panettiere, Highlight Child Star Mistreatment

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