Hayden Panettiere defends giving up custody of her daughter despite intense 'emotional pain'

Hayden Panettiere is opening up about what she calls the most painful decision she's ever made as a mother. In her memoir, " This Is Me: A Reckoning," the "Nashville" alum opens up about why she gave full custody of her daughter, Kaya, to her ex-fiancé, Wladimir Klitschko. Panettiere reveals that her 11-year-old daughter has lived with her father since 2018. "I just knew that if I wanted to ... I knew how bad a place I was in," the actress told Fox News Digital. "I hid it from my daughter as muc