Hayden Panettiere was only 25 years old when she dared to say on television that motherhood had plunged her into real postpartum depression, not a passing sadness. 😢
She had been the face of Neutrogena for a decade when she gave that interview in 2015. According to her own account, the brand tried to use a morality clause to remove her from the contract just weeks later. Her representative had to remind them that firing someone over a mental health condition was illegal. Neutrogena backed down, but when the contract expired, they simply did not renew it. No one from the company ever called her again.
After her death, her story began circulating again this week, and now thousands of people are calling for a boycott of the brand that abandoned her just when she was at her most honest. 🙏