This Is Me: A Reckoning

In This Is Me: A Reckoning, Hayden Panettiere — known for her roles in Heroes and Nashville — writes about the years of intense public scrutiny that came with early fame, and the private struggles that scrutiny often obscured.

The memoir covers her experience of postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, her addiction and path to recovery, and an abusive relationship, alongside the grief of losing her brother, actor Jansen Panettiere, in 2023. Panettiere frames these events as a series of "lifequakes" that repeatedly forced her to reconstruct her sense of identity, both as a public figure and privately.

Written in her own voice and narrated by her on audio, the book is a candid account of what happened behind the image constructed by decades of tabloid coverage, and of the recovery work that followed each crisis.