![Hayden Panettiere arrives at her younger brother Jansen's celebration of life event in their hometown of Palisades, New York, with her on/off boyfriend Brian Hickerson. The grieving actress wore a colorful bomber jacket and black pants as she attended the memorial at the scenic Palisades Presbyterian Church alongside her mother Lesley Vogel and father Alan ‘Skip’ Panettiere, on Wednesday morning. Jansen’s girlfriend Cat Michie, who has posted a heartfelt tribute to him on social media, was also seen at the venue. ‘Scream, 6’ star Hayden, 33, was expected to speak at the event, which was being held in remembrance of the 28-year-old former child actor, who died last month due to an enlarged heart. A friend of the former actor told officials he'd checked on Jansen at home after he'd failed to show up for a business meeting. Upon arrival, he was found sitting upright in a chair unresponsive. Jansen's dad, Skip, had spoken to his son on the phone just the night before, and thought he "sounded okay." On Wednesday, friends and family came together at the small church which is just a few miles away from Jansen's apartment in Nyack where he was found dead. 08 Mar 2023 Pictured: Brian Hickerson, Hayden Panettiere. Photo credit: MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342 (Mega Agency TagID: MEGA953084_001.jpg) [Photo via Mega Agency]](https://preprod.hollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Hayden-Panettiere-jansen-memorial-mega-02.jpg?quality=100&w=330)
Hayden Panettiere spoke out about turning over custody of her daughter Kaya in a clip for a new episode of the Facebook video series Red Table Talk, released on Tuesday, September 27. The actress, 33, admitted that giving up custody of her little one, 7, to her ex-boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko, 46, was absolutely “heartbreaking” for her, in a clip shared by People. “It was very upsetting. I mean, it was the worst. Signing those papers was the most heartbreaking I’ve ever ever had to do in my life,” she said.
Hayden got emotional as she explained about signing the papers to give full custody to Wladimir. “The papers were to give him full custody. I was going to go work on myself, and I was going to get better, and when I got better, then things could change, and she could come to me, and I could have my time with her, but that didn’t happen,” she explained.
Earlier in the discussion, it appeared that she was referencing struggles that she was facing at the time. Hayden had revealed that she struggled with alcohol and opioid abuse during a July interview with People. She said that giving up custody probably would’ve been different had there been a different conversation. “It wasn’t a discussion,” she explained. “If he had come to me and said, ‘You know, I think because of where you’re at right now and struggles that you’re having, it would be good for her to be over here with me for a while,’ to which, I probably if I had had enough of a conversation would’ve said, ‘Okay, that makes sense. I get it. I’ll come there to visit’ and stuff like that.”
Despite how hard it was to give up custody for her daughter, it seems that Hayden and Wladimir have a strong co-parenting relationship now. Kaya has lived with her dad in Europe, and while Russia invaded Ukraine earlier in 2022, Hayden revealed that her daughter had been evacuated from the country and was safe, as Wladimir has fought to defend Ukraine.