Hayden Panettiere Reveals Three HUGE Clues Behind Identity Of 'Very Famous' Man She Was Put In Bed With During Yacht Party!

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More details have surfaced surrounding one of Hayden Panettiere’s most shocking revelations.

While promoting her new memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning on the On Purpose podcast last week, the Heroes alum told host Jay Shetty about a time she was thrown to the wolves. Reflecting on a ritzy yacht trip with tons of famous celebs when she was 18, Hayden revealed someone she very much felt she could trust at the time brought her downstairs to meet a “very famous” celebrity… but when they got to his room, he was laying naked in his bed. Hayden’s so-called friend pushed her to hop in with him, then left:

“It was led by somebody that I had grown to trust and see as a protector and somebody who had my back … She physically put me in the bed next to this undressed man who was very famous … [It was] like this was just an average day for him.”

How traumatizing… Hayden reflected on feeling like she’d “lived such a huge life” and thought she was “oh so mature at 18,” but still felt blindsided by the betrayal:

“Scientifically, your frontal lobes don’t develop until we’re what, 25, 26? So even though I felt like I could make healthy decisions, safe decisions, I wasn’t capable of being fully aware of what was going on around me.”

She reflected on feeling trapped, unable to get off the yacht:

“There was no jumping off and swimming away. And there was nobody who was going to be empathetic to my situation. I realized that this was nothing new to them.”

What a dehumanizing feeling to literally be thrown like a piece of meat into the cage of a beast.

Hayden didn’t name names during her interview, or really even offer any describing characteristics… but that’s all changed now. On Tuesday, This Is Me: A Reckoning officially hit bookshelves, revealing more details about the scary encounter. In a chapter titled Trust, Hayden dropped three huge clues to describe the man:

“[A] famous thirtysomething British singer-songwriter.”

So those are the three big clues: he was thirty something years old, he’s British, and he’s a singer-songwriter.

Hmmm….

What an awful situation for such a young, vulnerable girl to be put in.

When seeing him unclothed under the sheets, a flurry of thoughts went through Hayden’s mind:

“‘Oh my God,’ I thought. ‘Is he naked under there?’”

She recalled her friend telling her, “I want you to get in bed with him,” before turning around and closing the door behind her on the way out. And in that moment, Hayden rightfully began to panic:

“My body no longer felt like my own.”

However, years of being “managed” by adults led her to push down her instincts in favor of what she was told. But this time, he instincts wouldn’t allow it:

“As soon as the door clicked close, my survival instinct kicked in.”

She told the man, “Look … I don’t know what she said to you, but this is not going to happen.” She then got out of the bed and left, and returned to her room where she decompressed, booked a hotel and began packing while feeling like she’d “been kicked in the face” by her friend: