{"id":1143,"date":"2026-05-06T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/06\/hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:32:00","slug":"hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/06\/hayden-panettiere-comes-out-as-bisexual\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere Comes Out as Bisexual:"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-554425\">\n<div>\n<p><span><span>\u8aad\u66f8\u6642\u9593\uff1a <\/span> <span> 2<\/span> <span>\u5206<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hayden Panettiere has seen many ups and downs in her life, and through them all, she\u2019s been admirably honest and open with her fans.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Hayden has revealed that she has been holding one thing back \u2014 she\u2019s bisexual.<\/p>\n<p>The actress shared the news with fans while promoting her upcoming memoir.<\/p>\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Hayden Panettiere attends amfAR Gala Los Angeles 2022 at Pacific Design Center on November 03, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. \"   src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1438843136-1-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><figcaption>Hayden Panettiere attends amfAR Gala Los Angeles 2022 at Pacific Design Center on November 03, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. <span> (Photo by Jon Kopaloff\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\">\u201cThat\u2019s something about me I was never able to share with the world because it was just never the right time,\u201d she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/hayden-panettiere-gets-honest-on-loss-addiction-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told\u00a0<em>Us Weekly<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in a new interview, adding:<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\">\u201cIt was either I was too young, and I was being forced to be perfect at all times; I was not encouraged to just be myself. <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\">\u201cThen came the period where it felt like people coming out, especially women, saying that they were bisexual or liked girls, was a fad. I was afraid that if I was honest it was going to be like me jumping on the bandwagon. It was a very difficult topic to articulate properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\">Hayden added that it is \u201csad I had to wait until I was 36 years old to share that part of me, but better late than never, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DT0Wh8kkfaO\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI have explored it, but because I hadn\u2019t shared this with anybody, I didn\u2019t really have the courage to throw myself fully emotionally into it. Because then if I did fall in love that wasn\u2019t something that I wanted to ever have to hide,\u201d she explained, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that I know that this book is coming out, and that I\u2019ve chosen to share it with the world, I\u2019m comfortable to confidently say that yes, I am bisexual. I said it! This is the first time I got to say it out loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayden announced the book on her Instagram page back in January, writing:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome stories are only yours to tell\u2026 My new memoir <em>This is Me: A Reckoning<\/em> releases May 12th! Link to pre-order is in my bio. Here we go!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXNYFWsD1n4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>During her years in the public eye, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2023\/04\/hayden-panettiere-opens-about-about-alcoholism-i-turned-yellow-and-my-hair-fell-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hayden has battled addiction<\/a> and been at the center of multiple tabloid dramas.<\/p>\n<p>Her tumultuous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2023\/04\/hayden-panettiere-hints-that-shes-back-together-with-abusive-ex-boyfriend-brian-hickerson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">relationship with Brian Hickerson<\/a> attracted plenty of unwanted attention from the press.<\/p>\n<p>When her brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2023\/02\/jansen-panettiere-brother-of-hayden-panettiere-dead-at-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jansen Panettiere, passed away<\/a> in 2023 at the age of 28, Hayden once again found herself at the center of a media firestorm.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, it\u2019s clear why she might wish to control the narrative herself for a change.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is Me: A Reckoning<\/em> will be in stores on May 12.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Hayden Panettiere has seen many ups and downs in her life, and through them all, she\u2019s been admirably honest and open with her fans. Now, Hayden has revealed that she has been holding one thing back \u2014 she\u2019s bisexual. The actress shared the news with fans while promoting her upcoming memoir. Hayden Panettiere attends amfAR Gala Los Angeles 2022 at Pacific Design Center on November 03, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff\/Getty Images) \u201cThat\u2019s something about me I was never able to share with the world because it was just never the right time,\u201d she\u00a0told\u00a0Us Weekly\u00a0in a new interview, adding: \u201cIt was either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[717,2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hayden-panettiere","category-hollywood","category-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}