Hayden Panettiere Said Bizarre Zebra Accident Left Her With Chronic Pain As Opioid Use Escalated

Hayden Panettiere Said Bizarre Zebra Accident Left Her With Chronic Pain As Opioid Use Escalated

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 “an old neck injury” contributed to her escalating opioid use. Panettiere, who died suddenly on Sunday at 36, wrote in her recent memoir, ...

Aug 19, 2026

Hayden Panettiere was haunted by back pain from bizarre on-set accident with a zebra

I was injured, in pain, and screwed," she wrote in her memoir in May. "Over twenty years later, these injuries still bother me."

Aug 19, 2026