Megyn Kelly Breaks Down How Hayden Panettiere's Parents and Ex-Boyfriend FAILED Her

All this business of, I started to feel safe, loved, and cherished. That's our mother's fault. That's our parents' fault. If your child gets to the age of majority and doesn't feel safe, loved, and cherished, you blew it. You failed at your job as a mother or father. You did. You failed. That's the ultimate F. You got an F as a parent. You made a bunch of money off of your daughter. You probably have a super nice car and a big house. You failed. You've raised someone to the age of majority who doesn't feel safe, loved, or cherished. You're a loser. Both parents here. I don't give him a pass just because he was a fireman. What do you do to protect your child? Why? Why, by the time she reached adulthood, and by the way, both children wound up hooked on some sort of substances, did she not feel loved or cherished by anybody? What the hell? Can you imagine moms and dads out there right now, if your child said that publicly, how disgusted you would be with yourself? Where were you? What were you doing? Did you feel cool at your job, J-Lo, as your child was turning trans? It's like, you don't have to bring children into this world. You really don't. Don't do it if you don't. I'm actually not that judgmental of these liberals who are like, I just want to be on my own and go to Europe. Great. If that's how you are, do that. It's much better than having children just because you think it's expected of you. But if and when you bring them into the world, you must raise them, and you must raise them well and lovingly. You must. It's part of the societal cultural contract, not to mention a religious one. It's required of you. As a Christian, you must. They must honor and respect you, and you must take care of them with a loving, firm hand. Anyway, it's infuriating to think that she spent her last 24 hours with him. They split. The Daily Mail goes on. Well, after the, I felt beautiful again, and so on. He was arrested and charged with domestic violence in 2019, so it didn't even take him a year, and 2020. The final incident saw him sentenced to 45 days in California. The troubles did not end there. In May 2022, the pair had a wild fight inside the bar of the Sunset Marquee Hotel in LA, and Hickerson was photographed being restrained by a bystander, seemingly missing a shoe. It's a real stand-up guy. Panettiere was reportedly overheard yelling, Brian, jail, a reminder that he was still on probation, and also, from what I read, still under a restraining order that had been issued in 21. They split, seemingly for good, in July 2022. She recalled in excruciating detail the beatings in her memoir, and he, on publication, owned his past behavior, calling the book an essential read. Then they appeared to reconcile. On Saturday, Panettiere and Hickerson flew from LA to South Carolina. On Sunday, she was found dead. 24 hours. Again, we don't know what role, if any, he had in supplying her the drugs or watching her do the drugs, possibly encouraging the drugs. But I'll ask you this. Do you think she felt good being back with him? Do you think it was, you know, something that made her feel good about herself or her career prospects, to be back with this man who had serially abused her, who she knew was a loser? She knew it. Do you think it's an accident that when with him, she resumed her substance abuse and OD? You know, do you think if she had gone to anyone in her life, anyone who had loved her objectively, she might have avoided that fate? Can we roll that soundbite from yesterday, Deb, of Brian Hickerson? This is, we played it yesterday. But I just want you to hear it again, because you can hear in his final answer that even he knows her life will be better if she just gets away from him. And yet his selfishness couldn't be tamped down. It would rule the day. Because when she came back to him, he took her, obviously with open arms. Do we have it, Deb? All right, we're going to get it. I know, I know. We'll, we'll bring it over. It's from yesterday's rundown. That's how our soundbites work. It takes a second to move them. But in the meantime, there's a little of him talking about, you know, his allegedly reformed self. And this is from May when he sat down with TMZ. Oh, we have it? Okay. So first, first, this one, I think it's all from the same interview, if I'm not mistaken. But listen to him acknowledge that he knows she'll be better off without him. Do you ever think about one day marrying her? Yeah, of course. Is it something that you think could still happen? I hope so. She probably doesn't think the same way. But, um, it's, uh, you know. Do you think it's better for her to not be with you? I think that Hayden is one of the most talented people I've ever met in my life. And I would be an idiot not to walk away from her and let her flourish in her career. So, uh, we probably wouldn't be good together. Well, you are an idiot. You're an idiot. It's obvious what adult you are. But he knew. Curious talking about that 2020 incident that I just read the excerpt from her memoir. So one of the things she talked about, she did an interview with Us Magazine talking about the 2020 incident that happened between you two. And she said what happened in Wyoming helped push me in the right direction. But it still took me a long time. And I still struggled to fully put a kibosh to it for a while. She seems to be talking about the incident that happened with you guys in 2020 on Valentine's Day where you were arrested for domestic abuse for allegedly punching her. What happened? What happened that night, Brian? I had a lot to drink and I got physical with her. And I got arrested, spent the night in jail. And, you know, that's just what happens when you lay hands on women. Could he sound any dumber? Good gracious. He sounds like an absolute fool. I mean, honestly, I like I know we're not supposed to use this word, but he sounds retarded. It's it's egregious how dumb this man sounds that she was spending any portion of her life with him because she was she was smart. You could tell she may have may not have accomplished that much in the way of university degrees, but who cares about that when you could hear her when she spoke about herself, her life, et cetera. This girl was right. Very bright. There's a little bit more from this interview, which I want to play you with Brian Hickerson. And here he goes on to talk about how he's been working on himself. So three. So, you know, Hayden did say that you are abusive, but you have been working on yourself. Do you mind sharing what you've been doing lately? Yes, I have been working on myself. Shia LeBeouf leads our AA group, the Isolators. The man saved my life. He introduced me to my sponsor, JJ, and we have a very good great. Good lord. I don't think it's working out so well, Brian. Pretty sure that when you go through the program, they don't encourage you to, at a minimum, let someone you purport to love O.D. in front of you. Kind of think it's a fail for you in addition to the parents and the agents and whomever else was surrounding Hayden Panettiere charged with her care, charged with looking out for her. I realized she was a grown adult. She was 36 years old. She wasn't 16 like she was when she started in this business that they're about. But she still had people around her who were supposed to be looking out for her. We're supposed to care about her. I do at 55, don't you? We all do. We have certain people in our lives whom we care about and who are supposed to care about us and to whom our welfare actually is very top of the list. Where was hers? Where were her people? It was supposed to be this loser. 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