Hayden Panettiere recalls'sketchy' moment she was given "Happy Pills" aged 16

Hayden Panettiere recalls'sketchy' moment she was given Happy Pills aged 16

Hayden Panettiere was a child actress in Hollywood who struggled with substance abuse as an adult.

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"Someone on my team came to me before the red carpet, and I had been doing Heroes and press all the time, so I was a little low-energy," Panettiere says co-hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Adrienne Banfield Norris, and guest host Kelly Osbourne.

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Panettiere now believes the "Happy pill" was a prescription stimulant similar to Adderall, but obtained from Mexico.

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Panettiere says she didn't realise anything was wrong until she asked for extra medications "For personal use"

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"They were for interviews," Panettiere told PEOPLE in July.

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Panettiere claimed to PEOPLE in July that she drank and took opiates early in her career "I couldn't be messy on set.

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Panettiere also addresses turning up full custody of her 7-year-old daughter Kaya to ex Wladimir Klitschko, calling it the "most devastating thing I've ever done."

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