Lesley Vogel’s verdict on her daughter’s memoir was scathing.
Hayden Panettiere’s ‘self-destructive path’ was one of her own choosing, Vogel said in May.
Panettiere wrote in distressing detail about the pressures heaped on her by her ambitious mother, and catalogued the ensuing fallout: depression, alcoholism, a series of failed romantic entanglements, substance abuse.
But Vogel was unrepentant, saying that she chose ‘the no-contact route’ on ‘the advice of professionals’.
‘You cannot save someone who does not want to be saved,’ she said.
Three months later, Panettiere was dead – discovered on Sunday afternoon at an apartment in South Carolina, dying from a suspected drug overdose.
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