Hayden Panettiere thought the happiest day of her life would become her last. 😳
The actress, known for “Heroes” and “Nashville”, revealed in her new memoir “This Is Me: A Reckoning” that during the birth of her daughter Kaya in 2014, she suffered such severe hemorrhaging that she felt she was “knocking on death’s door”. She needed seven blood transfusions and treatment for an infection to survive the C-section.

Kaya, the daughter of her relationship with boxer Wladimir Klitschko, is now 11 years old. But the story did not end there. Panettiere also said that she later went through such deep postpartum depression that in 2018 she decided to give up custody of her daughter. 💔 A confession that shows the rawest side of motherhood, far from the flashbulbs of Hollywood.

