Episode
CHEERLEADER DOWN
- Podcast
- Evil Thoughts
- Published
- Aug 17, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1102
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Summary
Hayden Panettiere—Claire Bennet, the unkillable cheerleader from Heroes , Juliette Barnes from Nashville , Kirby from Scream —found unresponsive in a Greenville, South Carolina apartment Sunday afternoon. Age 36. She'd been open about the long war with alcohol, opioids, postpartum depression, the "happy pills" that started it all as a teenager.