It was the summer of 2018 and Hayden Panettiere was newly single, recently out of rehab, and hoping to make a fresh start.
Her ex-fiance, Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko, had obtained in 2018 full custody of their three-year-old daughter Kaya – Panettiere’s postnatal depression and alcoholism made motherhood an impossible struggle.
So Panettiere’s brother Jansen, five years her junior, suggested they go out in West Hollywood and have a good time.
It was then, in the wildly popular gay bar The Abbey, that Panettiere met a man who would change the course of her life – Brian Hickerson.
Hickerson, an aspiring actor and real
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