{"id":2461,"date":"2026-08-19T22:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2026-08-19T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:37:37","slug":"hayden-panettiere-said-bizarre-zebra-accident-left-her-with-chronic-pain-as-opioid-use-escalated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere Said Bizarre Zebra Accident Left Her With Chronic Pain As Opioid Use Escalated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Hayden Panettiere said injuries she suffered after being thrown from a zebra on a movie set continued to cause her pain decades later, with the actress also recounting how a flare-up of \u201can old neck injury\u201d contributed to her escalating opioid use.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2459\">Disturbing Details Emerge After Illegal Immigrant Kills Mother Of Young Child<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Panettiere, who died suddenly on Sunday at 36, wrote in her recent memoir, \u201cThis Is Me: A Reckoning,\u201d about the lasting effects of an accident she suffered at 14 while filming the 2005 movie \u201cRacing Stripes\u201d in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere said she was performing a stunt when she was thrown from the zebra she was riding, sustaining a concussion, whiplash, and injuries to two vertebrae in her neck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kept my mouth shut and endured the pain in my back and neck,\u201d she wrote in the memoir, adding, \u201cOver 20 years later, these injuries still bother me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cNashville\u201d actress also recalled that injury when discussing her struggles with addiction, both to alcohol and opioids, saying that her dependence on the pain medications in particular had escalated when an \u201cold neck injury flared up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere was found unresponsive at a residence in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday afternoon. First responders found her in cardiac arrest and attempted cardiac life support, but she could not be revived. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:32 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2457\">Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s Mother Worked For Terror Group That Funded Bin Laden And Taliban<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian Hickerson, Panettiere\u2019s on-again, off-again boyfriend, was at the residence when she died and showed investigators a \u201cbag of medication\u201d that the actress had been taking at the time of her death. He said she was on nine medications.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy performed on Monday revealed that there were no signs of trauma that might have contributed to her death, according to the Greenville County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Her cause and manner of death remain undetermined pending further investigation and additional testing. Toxicology results could take several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not determined whether opioids, other medications, or Panettiere\u2019s previous injuries played any role in her death.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2455\">EXCLUSIVE: A-Listers Got $34 Million In COVID Relief, The Trump Admin Is Trying To Get It Back<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Panettiere said injuries she suffered after being thrown from a zebra on a movie set continued to cause her pain decades later, with the actress also recounting how a flare-up of \u201can old neck injury\u201d contributed to her escalating opioid use.Panettiere, who died suddenly on Sunday at 36, wrote in her recent memoir, \u201cThis Is Me: A Reckoning,\u201d about the lasting effects of an accident she suffered at 14 while filming the 2005 movie \u201cRacing Stripes\u201d in South Africa.Panettiere said she was performing a stunt when she was thrown from the zebra she was riding, sustaining a concussion, whiplash, and injuries to two vertebrae in her neck.\u201cI kept my mouth shut and endured the pain in my back and neck,\u201d she wrote in the memoir, adding, \u201cOver 20 years later, these injuries still bother me.\u201dThe \u201cNashville\u201d actress also recalled that injury when discussing her struggles with addiction, both to alcohol and opioids, saying that her dependence on the pain medications in particular had escalated when an \u201cold neck injury flared up.\u201dPanettiere was found unresponsive at a residence in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday afternoon. First responders found her in cardiac arrest and attempted cardiac life support, but she could not be revived. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:32 pm.Brian Hickerson, Panettiere\u2019s on-again, off-again boyfriend, was at the residence when she died and showed investigators a \u201cbag of medication\u201d that the actress had been taking at the time of her death. He said she was on nine medications.An autopsy performed on Monday revealed that there were no signs of trauma that might have contributed to her death, according to the Greenville County Coroner\u2019s Office.Her cause and manner of death remain undetermined pending further investigation and additional testing. Toxicology results could take several weeks.Authorities have not determined whether opioids, other medications, or Panettiere\u2019s previous injuries played any role in her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hayden Panettiere Said Bizarre Zebra Accident Left Her With Chronic Pain As Opioid Use Escalated - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2461\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hayden Panettiere Said Bizarre Zebra Accident Left Her With Chronic Pain As Opioid Use Escalated - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hayden Panettiere said injuries she suffered after being thrown from a zebra on a movie set continued to cause her pain decades later, with the actress also recounting how a flare-up of \u201can old neck injury\u201d contributed to her escalating opioid use.Panettiere, who died suddenly on Sunday at 36, wrote in her recent memoir, \u201cThis Is Me: A Reckoning,\u201d about the lasting effects of an accident she suffered at 14 while filming the 2005 movie \u201cRacing Stripes\u201d in South Africa.Panettiere said she was performing a stunt when she was thrown from the zebra she was riding, sustaining a concussion, whiplash, and injuries to two vertebrae in her neck.\u201cI kept my mouth shut and endured the pain in my back and neck,\u201d she wrote in the memoir, adding, \u201cOver 20 years later, these injuries still bother me.\u201dThe \u201cNashville\u201d actress also recalled that injury when discussing her struggles with addiction, both to alcohol and opioids, saying that her dependence on the pain medications in particular had escalated when an \u201cold neck injury flared up.\u201dPanettiere was found unresponsive at a residence in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday afternoon. 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