Hayden Panettiere's Mom's COLD-HEARTED Statement After Her Death Reveals So Much

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Arthur Aidala, host of “The Arthur Aidala Power Hour” and Dave Aronberg and Ashleigh Merchant, co-hosts of "The MK True Crime Show," to discuss Hayden Panettiere's mother's cold-hearted statement about her daughter following the release of her memoir, her detached comments after her daughter's death, and more.
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AI GeneratedThis discussion examines the controversial relationship between the late Hayden Panettiere and her mother, Leslie Vogel. The speakers criticize Vogel for her perceived emotional abuse, her role as a controlling manager, and her detached, victim-blaming public statements following her daughter's death, suggesting these dynamics contributed to Panettiere's struggles.
On the Hayden Panettiere thing, just before we move on from that, did you guys see the
reports of her mother and what the mother said after her death this week? Her mother has emerged
as like a villain in this whole thing. She sounds like she was a terrible mother. First of all,
you shove your kid into Hollywood, you know, as a baby and thereafter. It's such a terrible
decision and it's so harmful to the child. It just seems like reckless to me. So now her daughter
was on camera and on the record in her book saying, I went to my mom when I was 19,
she was 36 when she died this week, and said, mom, you can't be both my manager and my mother.
Would you please just be my mother? And the mother's response according to Hayden was,
you owe me. Wow. And wouldn't let go of the money role. And now her name is Leslie Vogel. She was
a Midland soap opera star in her day, which is, and she didn't make it. So she wanted the daughter
to recover her, her lost glory. So here she shares her first public comments to NBC after Hayden
died. And this is what she said. I mean, it's, it's really crazy. This is as, as Debbie Murphy
put it to me, this sounds like something my doorman would say about me if I died. Like,
this is how detached it was. Uh, I think Hayden was an amazingly talented person in so many
departments. And I think young people who grow up in the entertainment industry,
it is a struggle and it is a very challenging industry. And it's not unusual for them to
sadly find the wrong path. What's she on drugs like herself? My God. Right. That's what she said.
Uh, she said that her last conversation was in October that they'd been texting a bit,
but not in some time. No contact was a choice I made for very specific reasons.
And you know, certainly not for lack of care, concern or love. Uh, she said she wished things
could have been different. I think it becomes very difficult to be true to yourself. I think Hayden
sadly lost her way and I wish it were different. Um, yeah. Like that you hadn't been her mother.
Oh my God. She did go on to say, um, she ripped on Brian. That was her other contribution. I
wouldn't, we can all agree on that. He was a terrible person to have in Hayden's life.
She, this, this person in her life that we've been trying to get rid of for quite some time
was with her at her death. That was Brian Hickerson. There's a lot of history in the past
that Brian has enabled Hayden many times. And this is why her father and I had been concerned
for a long time about him. By the way, there's another report out today about this is a witness
who lived next to Hayden who said that she saw the stretcher taking Hayden out. This is, I think
back a couple of years ago, not that long ago, but maybe like 2025. She said she was clearly
terrified. You could see the look in her eyes. She was clearly battered. You could see, I guess
she had some bruising or something. She identified her as being battered. And she said, you could see
she was clearly scared. And it's not like she slipped off a ladder and like bumped her head
and they wouldn't take her. There was, there were real issues. And this is, this is during the time
where that restraining order would have been in place. So she would, they were both obviously
willingly violating it. But can I just tell you guys one other thing? So Yashar Ali, who's a
great reporter, he went back and found the statement that, that the mother made after her
memoir hit in May. And it's even worse than the one I just read. She says there's a personality
style, which manifests as a need for control, entitlement, and a lack of empathy. She's not
speaking of herself. She's speaking of her daughter. Wow. The major fear is that someone
will see through the mask that they present to the world and discover who they truthfully are.
This condition cannot be fixed regardless of continual efforts to support or comfort,
no matter the encouragement given, it will never be enough. And listen to this.
After 20 years of trauma, I took the advice of professionals and chose the no contract
contact route. This is the mother saying she's been traumatized by 20 years from Hayden. So what
from 16 to 36, from all the times she was a huge star, the child traumatized the mother. She says,
as many parents of entertainment children know, we are all too familiar with the painful observation
of watching the self-destructive paths. They sometimes choose no parent hopes for this
scenario. Totally no responsibility for the fact that she put her in the industry, but she was a
baby doing commercials. One more. Sadly, this is not sadly, this is out of our control. You cannot
save someone who does not want to be saved. Radical acceptance is the most difficult challenge.
Any parent must embrace. Unfortunately, I've spent a great deal of such. I've seen a great
deal of such in my life experience. I guess she's referring to her 20 years of trauma
caused by her rich, famous daughter who only wanted a mother, Ashley, and couldn't get one.
Didn't want her mother to run her career and do that. Just wanted her to be a mother. I mean,
she's got to feel some responsibility, but it doesn't sound like she's taking any responsibility
at this point. What a disgusting pig. It doesn't sound like she said. We're ripping on our moms
for a couple of cigarettes while they were pregnant with us. This is actual abusiveness.
This is actual abuse. This kind of emotional abuse. I'm distraught about the loss of my
daughter. It's against the natural order to lose your child. Unless I missed it, I didn't hear any
of that in there. Megan, this was a prepared statement. This wasn't spontaneous. She had time
to think about this and issue this? No. She gave an interview to NBC and just went off on
how tough it was, I guess, for her when Hayden was still alive and how there's arms length,
like, geez, it's a tough business. She wasn't able to get it back under control.
It's like, no wonder this girl turned to drugs. That's my takeaway.
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