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\n\tThe Drug Enforcement Administration has joined the investigation into Hayden Panettiere\u2019s death, according to ABC News.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe DEA is entering a joint effort with South Carolina\u2019s Greenville Police Department and the local coroner\u2019s office, according to TMZ.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanettiere died Sunday night at age 36. The official cause of death has not yet been determined. In her 2026 memoir \u201cThis Is Me: A Reckoning,\u201d Panettiere went into detail about her years-long struggles with drug and alcohol addiction.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter news broke of Panettiere\u2019s death, tributes from across Hollywood came pouring in online. On Wednesday, Jack Coleman, who played her father on \u201cHeroes,\u201d shared an emotional tribute on Instagram.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI\u2019m heartbroken. I couldn\u2019t begin to put my thoughts into words until now, and they will be inadequate,\u201d Coleman wrote. \u201cI\u2019ve loved Hayden since day one of the pilot of \u2018Heroes,\u2019 20 years ago, when she introduced herself by shouting \u2018daddy\u2019 and throwing her arms around me. From that day on, she called me daddio. She was Haydini, because she was a magician.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChristy Carlson Romano, the Disney Channel star who played Ren Stevens on \u201cEven Stevens\u201d and voiced the titular teen spy on \u201cKim Possible,\u201d likewise shared a remembrance for Panettiere on Wednesday. In an essay for Elle, she compared the trauma of childhood fame to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease caused by repeated hits to the head.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe former child actor exists in a category the world does not know how to hold,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWe are children when the public wants to feel protective of us, professionals when the industry wants to profit from us, and spoiled celebrities when we eventually show symptoms of having been both\u2026 Early fame is like CTE. Not as a diagnosis. As a way of thinking about repeated impact. We now have language for youth sports: protocols, helmets, parents worried about concussions. But we have almost no language for what happens when stress, scrutiny, rejection, adult pressure, and the collapse of privacy become the architecture of a childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

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