Hayden Panettiere’s brother Jansen lifeless at 28: Actor handed away in New York over weekend as reason for demise stays unclear

Nashville actress Hayden Panettiere’s solely brother has died on the age of 28.

Jansen Panettiere handed away in New York Metropolis over the weekend, in keeping with a household supply who spoke with TMZ on Monday morning.

No additional particulars have been launched at the moment and the reason for his demise stays unclear.

DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for Panettiere for remark. 

The Strolling Useless actor was the Nashville star’s solely sibling. Hayden, 33, has not but publicly addressed her brother’s sudden passing. 

Solely brother: Jansen was the Nashville star’s solely sibling. Hayden has not but addressed her brother’s sudden passing; Pictured one month earlier than his demise on January 24

Unclear: Jansen handed away in New York in keeping with a household supply who spoke with TMZ on Monday morning. No additional particulars have been launched at the moment as his reason for demise stays unclear; Pictured in 2013

Regulation enforcement sources had been known as to a residence Sunday night time round 5:30PM in keeping with TMZ.

There isn’t a foul play suspected in Jansen’s demise in keeping with the publication.

The siblings had been final seen collectively lower than one month earlier than his demise. Jansen shared an image of Hayden slicing his hair on January 24. 

‘Not the primary haircut she’s tried to offer me,’ he joked within the caption. 

He additionally posted a throwback of the duo from a rafting journey on November 4, 2022. 

He shared his final put up over the weekend, that includes a brand new snap of his graffiti paintings. 

Hayden and Jansen had been born to Lesley R. Vogel, a former cleaning soap opera actress, and Alan Lee Panettiere, a captain within the Fireplace Division of New York Metropolis. 

Jansen, who was 5 years youthful that his sister, adopted Hayden’s footsteps into performing. His IMDb lists the 2022 comedy Love and Love Not as his final function. 

No foul play: There isn’t a foul play suspected in Jansen’s demise in keeping with the publication; The siblings pictured with their mom Lesley R. Vogel, a former cleaning soap opera actress, in 2019

Profession: Jansen, who was 5 years youthful that his sister, adopted Hayden’s footsteps into performing. The duo additionally labored collectively on Tiger Cruise in 2004, and Racing Stripes in 2005; Pictured 2010

Jansen was additionally a budding graffiti artist and recurrently showcased his work on social media 

His different work contains roles in The Strolling Useless, Main Crimes, Shia LaBeouf’s TV present Even Stevens, Blue’s Clues, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Robots. 

He additionally had a recurring function as Truman X in The X’s on Nickelodeon. 

The duo additionally labored collectively on Tiger Cruise in 2004, and Racing Stripes in 2005. 

Jansen obtained a nomination for a Younger Artist Award in 2008 for his work on The Final Day of Summer time. 

On the time of his demise he was connected to 5 totally different initiatives. 

Jansen additionally had a website for his graffiti artwork, together with his bio studying, ‘I AM particular person. I don’t do something unlawful unlawful or a minimum of I don’t do unlawful issues that harm individuals in entrance of me, if that is smart.’

‘I’ve finished medication however I don’t steal. To not say that anybody that’s ever stolen one thing is a nasty particular person and much from it. That means I’ve my moments like everybody else.’

‘I used to be pissed off with the entire performing factor so I’d take it out on bizarre issues issues like garments.’

Final function: His IMDb lists the 2022 comedy Love and Love Not as his final function. On the time of his demise he was connected to 5 totally different initiatives; Pictured 2019

Through the years: His different work contains roles in The Strolling Useless, Main Crimes, Even Stevens, Blue’s Clues, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Robots; Pictured 2019

The information of Jansen’s passing is the newest in a line of tragedies to befall Hayden – who spoke out simply final 12 months about her devastation at dropping custody of her daughter Kaya whereas she was scuffling with substance abuse points. 

Hayden opened up about her prolonged habit struggles in a July 2022 interview with Folks journal, revealing that her drug abuse started when she was simply 15 years outdated – after which spiraled uncontrolled whereas she was battling postpartum melancholy after the beginning of her daughter Kaya in 2014. 

‘As I acquired older, the medication and alcohol turned one thing I nearly could not dwell with out,’ Hayden confessed – revealing that her battle with postpartum melancholy mixed together with her reliance on medication and alcohol resulted in her making the ‘heartbreaking’ resolution to ship her daughter away to dwell together with her father, Wladimir Klitschko, in Ukraine.

‘I’d have the shakes once I awakened and will solely perform with sipping alcohol,’ she admitted. ‘[Sending Kaya away] was the toughest factor I ever needed to do. However I needed to be mother to her – and typically which means letting them go.’

Hayden stated that she didn’t drink whereas she was pregnant with Kaya, however she admitted that she fell off the wagon quickly after her daughter was born, and from there, her alcohol points continued to spiral uncontrolled. 

After she despatched her daughter away to dwell with Klitschko, 46, from whom she had break up simply months earlier than following a nine-year on-off relationship, Hayden’s consuming continued to worsen – to the purpose the place she needed to be hospitalized with jaundice. 

‘Docs advised me my liver was going to offer out,’ she admitted. ‘I used to be now not a 20 12 months outdated who may simply bounce proper again.’ 

The previous baby star, who started performing on-screen on the age of 5, when she landed roles in common cleaning soap operas One Life to Dwell and Guiding Mild, says her drug abuse points began when she was simply 15 – one 12 months earlier than she started filming hit TV sequence Heroes.

Jansen’s demise comes lower than 5 years after Hayden misplaced custody of her daughter Kaya amid her substance abuse struggles 

Hayden signed over custody of her daughter to her ex, Wladimir Klitschko, in 2018 – however she has since stated that she was compelled into the association 

On the time, she claims members of her staff started giving her ‘glad tablets’ in an effort to make her appear extra ‘peppy’ throughout interviews.

‘I had no concept that this was not an acceptable factor, or what door that may open for me when it got here to my habit,’ she defined.

In September, Hayden shed additional gentle on her custody battle together with her boxer ex, claiming that Wladimir was refusing to let their daughter go to her mom in California – whereas accusing him of forcing her to surrender her baby. 

After spending years scuffling with substance abuse points, Hayden signed over full custody of Kaya to Klitschko, 46, in 2018, however in a candid interview on Pink Desk Speak, she claimed that it was ‘not’ a mutual settlement. 

‘I believed she was going over to go to him like she all the time did – she went forwards and backwards between me in Nashville and Ukraine – however as soon as she was over there, [he] was instantly [like], “I need full custody of her,” which was a shock for me,’ she defined. 

‘It wasn’t my resolution. The truth is, I did not even realize it was taking place till she was already over there. In a rustic that is very male-dominated, there wasn’t a heck of loads that I may do.

‘It wasn’t a dialogue. If [Klitschko] had come to me and stated, “I feel due to the place you are at proper now and your struggles that you just’re having it will be good for her to be over right here with me for some time…”

‘If I had in all probability had sufficient of a dialog I’d’ve stated, “OK, that is smart, I get it, I am going to come there to go to,” stuff like that.