Hayden Panettiere Death: Blue Pills, White Powder And Straw Found Nearby | TMZ Live

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AI GeneratedA medical examiner's report reveals the extensive nature of Hayden Panettiere's drug addiction leading to her death. The report confirms a lethal cocktail of fentanyl, Xanax, muscle relaxants, and antidepressants. Evidence found at the scene, including black-market pills and a history of rehab, paints a picture of a severe relapse and a long-term struggle with substance abuse.
The depths of Hayden Panettiere's addiction are now really being revealed to us even more
in a report from the medical examiner in Greenville, South Carolina.
The final report that came out, in addition to, as we told you yesterday, we know that
she died from the toxicity of fentanyl, generic Xanax, a muscle relaxant, and also a drug
for depression.
However, there was so much more that was in the apartment when they went in there.
Things that they found.
Now, we told you about the bag of medications that Brian Hickerson, her boyfriend, had given
to authorities, but there was even more than that, and a lot that Brian told the authorities
about Hayden's battles with addiction and different substances.
In the room, they found a bunch of blue pressed pills, and those pressed pills, and I say
they're pressed pills because they're kind of, it sounds like the kind of thing that
you would buy in the black market.
They did test positive for fentanyl, and then beyond that, there was a bag of white powder
that was in a sunglasses case in her suitcase, and that tested positive for fentanyl.
I think that is interesting because we know that they had just arrived in South Carolina
the day before, and you may think, how in the world did she travel with all those drugs?
How do you, how does someone travel across country like that?
That sounds like an effort to sort of stash drugs within her luggage, and it was successful
because obviously they got there with all of these things, but beyond those pills, beyond
the fentanyl, the white powder-
A straw.
There was also a straw that was stacked on the table.
There was a straw that was there, and Brian told the authorities that she had also battled,
that she had been using for many, many years, nitrous oxide.
Yeah, she had a nitrous oxide abuse that she had been open to him about.
He also detailed a lot of her struggles, and also rehab.
She had just gotten out of rehab about a week before.
She had gone to rehab, according to him, for about two to three weeks here in Malibu.
I think that's really interesting that she was there for two to three weeks because typically,
you're there for a little bit longer than that.
You're there for at least a month usually, and so that seems to indicate that she let
She left early, which you can do.
Yeah, and he did note that her birthday was approaching, and she was planning to fly out
to Ukraine to be with her daughter, so it's possible that maybe that was cut short because
of the plans that she had, but it definitely shows, kind of paints a picture of somebody
that knew they had an addiction and was trying to get help.
Of course, now knowing exactly what the scene looked like, you could tell that she had relapsed.
It is right.
I mean, to know that he noted to the authorities that she had just left rehab a couple of weeks
before, within a couple of weeks, and yet she was traveling with all that much medication
and apparently black market pills, that's someone who's definitely relapsing and not
in a good place.
Yeah, and I thought another part that was pretty interesting was it was noted we knew
that Narcan was on the scene.
We knew that Brian administered Narcan because that was in Zach Hickerson's statement to
us, but now we know there was two Narcans that were actually used on Hayden, administered
by Brian, and he mentioned, and it's noted in this detailed report, that he's used it
on her in the past.
In another emergency situation, he performed or administered Narcan on Hayden, and it did
revive her at that time.
So they used two doses of Narcan that morning trying to revive her, but there's also a description
of how they found her, and I think it really shows, because we couldn't figure out when
she did the drugs that ended up killing her.
Brian says he went to sleep and she was fine, and even when he woke up in the morning, he
saw her and she was fine at some point, but by the time that they found her, they said
she was sitting, but she was crisscrossed, but she was face down, and that she was a
deep purple, was the way they described the color of her skin at that point.
It just shows that whatever she took, it seems like it killed her pretty quickly, and that
at that point, then, there was no reviving her.
Well, our chat is asking, does the fact that the pills were pressed and therefore likely
snorted make any difference in what happened to her versus just taking them normally?
Yeah, I mean, it could be, depending on what was, and again, we don't know the makeup of
each pill, if it was just pure fentanyl or what else it was, but yeah, once you crush
it up and you snort it, that's gonna make it that much more potent.
Really just to know that all that stuff was in that room, because it sounds like it was
like a drug den, I mean, and Brian said that he didn't know, he told the authorities he
didn't know that she was doing any particular drugs that morning, or he said that he didn't
know that she was using again, which is odd to me, because if she traveled with all those
drugs and Brian didn't know, maybe it's possible, but it just does not seem plausible.
She did try to conceal it in a sunglasses case, it also noted she had some of these
pills in like a makeup bag, we know that Brian and Hayden had been living apart for some
time, Brian was living in Greenville, obviously he must have come out to LA to see her, they
flew back together, she had been living in LA, so they had been apart, but he claims
he was unaware.
So something else that sort of denotes something that had been going on in Hayden's life for
a very long time is this battle between her parents, they had a very nasty breakup, they
were clearly estranged, did not get along, and that showed immediately after her death,
the authorities contacted them and said, look, we have her belongings, including some jewelry,
necklaces that were on her, that she had traveled there with, and that they wanted to send it
to one of them, and they both claimed it, they both wanted it, and started fighting
about it, arguing about it.
And ultimately, the police were like, you guys need to figure this out, like, just let
us know.
Yeah, and so, as of now, the authorities said, we're just going to hold all of these things
in a lockbox here, which is where I would presume it is now, until her parents settle
this, and I would imagine they're going to end up in court, knowing the way their relationship
has been, that they'll end up in court fighting over this stuff.
But yeah, just a sad final note for Hayden, and now the search is on for the drug dealer,
and that's the DEA, as we told you, has been working on.
Their working theory turned out to be true, that it was fentanyl laced in something that
ended up killing her, although it was more than fentanyl, we now know, and they have
the name of this drug dealer, and now they just have to find out if that person sold
her one of the pills that ended up killing her.
