Hayden Panettiere’s ‘Second Mother’ Calls Actress’ Death ‘Devastating’

Hayden Panettiere is being remembered by a longtime family friend after her death at age 36. “She referred to me in her book as her second mother,” Lynsey Lonberg told the Daily Mail on Monday, August 17, referring to Panettiere’s memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning. “She was like a child to me.” In the interview, Lonberg shared that she had been aware of Panettiere’s struggles with her mental health after welcoming her daughter, Kaya, in 2014 with ex Wladimir Klitschko. “When she had her child, she had a very difficult delivery and really hard postpartum,” she said. “Not a wee...

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