Hayden Panettiere's Memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning (with Julia Washington)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Chelsea and Prose & Glow’s Julia Washington deep dive into “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” the memoir from “Heroes” and “Nashville” star Hayden Panettiere. Together, they unpack Hayden’s rise from child star with a momager (of course) to tabloid fixture while dealing with addiction, postpartum depression, and the crushing weight of being a young woman in the 2000s. Plus: her age-gap relationships with Milo Ventimiglia and Wladimir Klitschko, and why this memoir feels deeply haunting. A content warning: This episode contains discussions of sensitive topics, including substance use, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. Take care while listening and find helpful resources here. Contact us or send us your voice notes: hello@glamoroustrash.com Follow Chelsea: Instagram @chelseadevantez Join the cookie community: Become a member of the Patreon Thank you to our sponsors: Quince - Go to quince.com/glamorous for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Thrive Causemetics - Get 20% off your first order at thrivecausemetics.com/glamorous Libro.fm - Click here to get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 with your first month of membership using code TRASH. Show Notes: Dringo! Card Yesteryear Book Club Link RHOBH alum Diana Jenkins denies she’s the friend who put teenage Hayden Panettiere into bed with 'very famous' man (Entertainment Weekly) Where to find our guest: Julia Washington Glamorous Trash Candle Link Julia's Book Club (Patreon) Instagram *** Glamorous Trash is all about going high and low at the same time— Glam and Trash. We recap and book club celebrity memoirs, deconstruct pop culture, and sometimes, we cry! If you've ever referenced Mariah Carey in therapy... then this is the podcast for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.3	This is a podcast that bookclubs viral articles, celebrity memoirs, and trashy discourse to elevate your life.
0:59.8	I'm your host, Chelsea DeMontes.
1:01.1	I'm a TV writer, comedian, filmmaker, author, and sometimes I'm in stuff too.
1:05.0	And today, we're book clubbing Hayden Panetteer's memoir titled This Is Meant, A Reckoning, published May 19th, 2026. It's brand new, hot off the presses.
1:17.6	And you know Hayden from so many things, the little girl with blonde curls and remember the Titans,
1:24.2	or as Claire Bennett, the cheerleader everyone was trying to save on heroes, or you might
1:29.6	know her as troubled country singer Juliet Barnes on the musical drama Nashville, which ran for six
1:36.1	seasons. Now, just a little fun fact about me if you're not an OG listener, it's shocking to people,
1:43.4	but I'm not a celebrity gossip fan, which is shocking
1:47.3	because of the podcast I run. But all to say, like, I don't follow like blind items. I don't
1:52.2	love blind items. I think Perez Hilton can rot in all iterations of him his will. Dumois is not a thing
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