Sept. 22, 2026
BREAKING: Hayden Panettiere’s Cause Of Death Revealed
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RSS Feed The Greenville, South Carolina Coroner’s Office has just announced that Hayden Panettiere’s cause of death has been ruled as an accident from the toxic effects of multiple drugs. The office specified that fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam, Methocarbamol, and Quetiapine were all found in Panettiere, but added there were no signs of trauma that contributed to her death. This announcement doesn’t mean charges won’t be filed, as the DEA continues to investigate Panettiere’s death and who may have been responsible for supplying the deadly combination of drugs to her.
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00:00:09
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and we just got word, official word of the cause of death of actress Hayden Panettiere. And with that, welcome to this breaking episode of Amy and TJ. Just a few moments ago, actually, this official cause just came across the road, and it's what actually TMZ previously reported and what many people did suspect.
00:00:31
Speaker 2: Yes, her cause of death has been revealed as an accidental overdose. Specifically, the medical examiner's office released... that Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, alprazolam, meth carbamol, and quetipine.
00:00:53
Speaker 3: I tried to say those as best as possible.
00:00:55
Speaker 1: What do we have there? One, two, three, four, five different things, drugs or chemicals in her system is what we are being told. Again, robes. They also need to make clear there is no... There was no trauma. There was no sign of foul play. They did say that very early on. They said that from the very beginning, we should say. And yes, they did confirm that through this as well, the actual autopsy. And a reminder here, Robes, you reminded me of it more often when we do these updates and these stories, that bag of pills.
00:01:24
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:01:25
Speaker 1: Bag of pills. Was it the boyfriend or the brother?
00:01:27
Speaker 3: It was the boyfriend.
00:01:29
Speaker 2: It was Brian Hickerson who, according to the police report, gave police when they showed up to that Airbnb, a bag of prescription pills and said, this is what she was taking.
00:01:42
Speaker 3: So yes, some of those.
00:01:44
Speaker 2: Pills were prescribed by a doctor, but even we know the smallest dose of fentanyl can be lethal.
00:01:53
Speaker 3: So to have fentanyl.
00:01:55
Speaker 2: In there with all of these other drugs, and we'll go over what all of these drugs were, amounted to a fatal dose.
00:02:02
Speaker 1: A reminder, Rose, it was August 16th, and it was a part of a really rough stretch of celebrity deaths. Wasn't Dolly Parton dazed?
00:02:13
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:02:13
Speaker 1: She dazed after that. We had a couple of actors die. It was just August 16th of the last few weeks. It was. It was really, really heavy, and she was so young, 36 years old, and the back and forth and the engagement of who is this guy she's with is supposed to be an ex, and she still caught up with him, and he had already been faced charges and was guilty on charges of abusing this woman. And I don't know what was going on in her life, obviously. But some suggested her mom, which isn't the best source, I guess, babe, but that this guy was just bad news for her. Nobody's saying he did anything. But she ended up in a place she was trying to get out of, which was with this guy and away from drugs.
00:02:55
Speaker 2: To think that just two months before her death, she actually had instructed security guards to keep Brian Hickerson away from some of the public events she was holding, promoting her new book, where she was describing her struggles, where she talked about overcoming addiction, postpartum depression, losing custody of her child, or at least giving up custody of her child.
00:03:18
Speaker 3: And she went.
00:03:18
Speaker 2: Through this arc of her life, including all the troubles with her mom.
00:03:22
Speaker 3: So by all accounts, it.
00:03:24
Speaker 2: Seemed as recently as June that she was on her way. She was on that continuing road of recovery. And then all of a sudden she.
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Speaker 3: Winds up dead.
00:03:34
Speaker 2: And this guy, this, what we believed at the time was her ex-boyfriend, but it's been described as her on again, off again.
00:03:41
Speaker 3: Boyfriend was with her at the time of her death.
00:03:44
Speaker 2: So yes, her mother spoke out, pointed the finger directly at him that he has been a terrible influence in her life. and obviously we know the documented criminal history involving violence between the two, but certainly he also had struggled with addiction. So to have two people struggling with addiction together, probably not the best of circumstances, but obviously something that her family wanted to point out, and police are almost certainly investigating.
00:04:11
Speaker 1: Oh, you better believe. Oh, yes. They are looking into him. They're looking into where she got these drugs, whether it's from a legit doctor or not. They are all... being looked at at this point. And Robe, when was the book? Wasn't the book her book?
00:04:25
Speaker 3: It was out, I believe, in May of this year. And she was on a book tour.
00:04:29
Speaker 1: So she's been fresh talking about this stuff. Robe's in which, to some degree, you might think was cathartic. But you don't put yourself out there. You would guess if you're not in a good place, right? She wrote this book, which I thought, Robe's, and the idea was that this was a new start. This was fresh. She's on The rebound, things are going well for her. Robes, it was just talking about this stuff. And then a few months later, she ends up dead. And what they're telling us now, Robes, it was in fact drugs. This is something she's talked about for years. She did stints in rehab over. Robes, she's talked about her postpartum issues.
00:05:08
Speaker 2: And we know she was in chronic pain. So that was part of the issue. Her mom acknowledged it. We see pictures of her on crutches. She apparently was hurt. And not that there was even one event, but she was repeatedly injured doing some of her own stunt work. on some of the movies and shows she's been a part of over the years.
00:05:27
Speaker 3: And so, yes, she talked about chronic back pain. And so that is part of all of this.
00:05:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again, I'd never heard of most of these drugs that are listed. We'll tell you what they are for. But Robeshe's, you think about, and I still go back to the mama, The mom's statement, they weren't close, and she put out a couple of statements. They all seemed self-serving, and they were interpreted by a lot of people. But Robes, she did point the finger at this guy, who for a lot of people, when they say she's dead, wait, who was there? That guy? From years back? Robes, he has already gotten all kinds of hell and heat. What is this now going to do to everything that was coming his way?
00:06:11
Speaker 2: Look. Obviously, he knows he's under investigation, not just in the court of public opinion, but certainly by DEA agents who almost immediately were put on this investigation. And look, we can look to the deaths of Matthew Perry, Michael Jackson. These were all accidental overdoses. However, in both of those cases, We saw eventually people charged with supplying those drugs to those high-profile celebrities who died.
00:06:43
Speaker 1: Wasn't the Michael Jacks, that was a doctor who was treating him. Yes. He still ended up in prison.
00:06:48
Speaker 3: Propofol, yes.
00:06:49
Speaker 1: Yes, still ended up in prison. So just because some of these were legit drugs prescribed by legit doctors, Robes, they're going after everybody. 36 years old, this young woman is dead because she took something. Who gave it to her?
00:07:04
Speaker 2: Exactly. And it appears some of the drugs, and these would have been the ones in the prescription pill bottles, we can assume, when Brian Hickerson handed these over to police, we know what some of these drugs are. The Alprazolam is generic for Xanax. I think most people know what Xanax is. It's used to treat anxiety and panic attacks.
00:07:25
Speaker 3: Methocarbamol. I hadn't heard of that one in particular, but it's a muscle relaxant.
00:07:29
Speaker 2: And a lot of folks know that if you have back pain, if you have chronic pain, oftentimes you would be prescribed a muscle relaxant. That makes sense. Now, this other one I'm probably saying wrong. Q-teopine is an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. So presumably all three of these would be able to be you'd be able to receive these prescriptions from legit MDs, legit doctors. Now, did the same doctor prescribe all of these? Did she doctor shop? Did they know about the other medication she was on? And then how does that all fit into the, what was reportedly an oxycodone pill that had fentanyl, and this pill was, according to Brian Hickerson, or at least according to TMZ, was, she got.
00:08:18
Speaker 3: It on the black market.
00:08:20
Speaker 1: That was the TMZ original reporting.
00:08:22
Speaker 3: That's the TMZ reporting.
00:08:23
Speaker 1: And they, to their credit here, Robes, they know how sensitive this was. They said who their sources were and then came back and reemphasized, like, we have several people, a part of this investigation, who have told us that a fentanyl-laced pill. So would that one pill have done it, minus all this other stuff? I don't know how that works, but still, they think it was the fentanyl. So the fentanyl was in her system as well, but this I'd never heard of this. 4-ANPP. Never heard that before, but that's how it is. And the way they write it out is 4-A-NPP. Can't give you the real technical name, but it's some chemical component that's used to make fentanyl. So it's not actually a drug of itself that gives you a high, but it fits there. it needs to be there in order for fentanyl to be made, is how they explain it. Correct.
00:09:16
Speaker 2: It's like a synthetic version of fentanyl. I don't understand how all of this works. But we know that TMZ also reported on these text messages that DEA officials, this is from their law enforcement sources, were going through and they said there were plenty of back and forth between Hayden Panettiere and her go-to regular drug dealer.
00:09:40
Speaker 3: And so they were examining all of that.
00:09:42
Speaker 2: And what they'll do is they'll piece together the days leading up to her death. Who was she talking to? Who was supplying these drugs? Was Brian Hickerson a part of any of this? And certainly this unnamed drug dealer. And certainly these doctors who prescribed this medication, were they aware of what she was taking, how much she was taking?
00:10:03
Speaker 1: How does that work with Brian Hickerson, babe? If he procured, right? What if he got stuff for her? What is his liability here? The drug dealer, obviously, if you give a fentanyl-laced pill to somebody that makes you an illegal drug dealer.
00:10:18
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:10:19
Speaker 1: Okay, so that person clearly would be in trouble. But what is the level?
00:10:23
Speaker 3: Look, you go back to Matthew Perry. I'd have to go back and look. But his assistant, like people.
00:10:27
Speaker 2: Who were just around him, who perhaps either were complicit in him taking these pills or knew about him taking these.
00:10:34
Speaker 3: Pills, they were all implicated. There were, what, five.
00:10:37
Speaker 2: People who were eventually charged and they either pleaded or were convicted.
00:10:42
Speaker 3: In contributing to his death.
00:10:44
Speaker 2: So we know that police and investigators take this very seriously and they will prosecute anyone who had any role in contributing to Hayden Pinataire or whatever celebrity took whatever drugs that contributed to their death.
00:11:01
Speaker 3: They're all fair game.
00:11:03
Speaker 1: Well, stay here, folks. We will remind you of what happened in the Matthew Perry case and why so many people ended up convicted of a crime. And yes, several of them got significant prison sentences.
00:11:25
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Amy and TJ.
00:11:27
Speaker 2: We are just getting word, this is a breaking news story, that the official cause of actress Hayden Panettiere's death was an accidental overdose, and the medical examiner's office listed a couple of different drugs that were in her system, but among them, and notably, fentanyl. They have absolutely determined contributed to the young actress's untimely death.
00:11:52
Speaker 1: Robes, it's... Why is it we can get some toxicology reports back and it takes years to get others?
00:11:59
Speaker 3: It's so true.
00:12:00
Speaker 1: What is this?
00:12:00
Speaker 3: We got this back almost immediately.
00:12:02
Speaker 1: Rose, it was August 16th. She died. Wow. That's a month. And oftentimes it'll be three months. But Rose, we've been waiting in some cases for a long time for toxicology reports. It's always just interesting to see this. But Rose, I'm looking here. Matthew Perry, five people you said you have in front of you as well.
00:12:18
Speaker 2: I do.
00:12:18
Speaker 1: I see prison sentences. of two years, eight months, two and a half years, three and a half years, and 15 years, ranging from everybody from his personal assistant to the ketamine queen, whoever this lady is.
00:12:30
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, they, and look, there are usually almost always clear evidence pointing to whoever contributed to securing.
00:12:40
Speaker 3: The drugs, administering the drugs.
00:12:42
Speaker 2: Look, his personal assistant, Matthew Perry's, I believe, he actually acted as his drug messenger and personally injected him We don't know what, if any, role Brian Hickerson, his brother Zach, what they may have played in the days leading up to Hayden's death or even the morning of her death. But if anyone purchased a drug on her behalf or facilitated the meeting or the interaction between her and this drug dealer, all of them are subject to being prosecuted.
00:13:11
Speaker 1: You'll probably remember this, too. Wasn't that during the Diddy trial? Didn't he have assistants who were getting drugs, but they all got immunity?
00:13:18
Speaker 2: They got immunity to testify to what they saw and what they knew, but they absolutely would have been subject to criminal charges had they not gotten that immunity deal.
00:13:28
Speaker 1: Without a doubt. So here, this thing, like you say, Robes, it's not just a matter of if you sold it or not. If you secured it. We have seen people get into some legal trouble for this.
00:13:39
Speaker 2: If you say, I know a guy. And you connect the two. That absolutely works. I mean, one of the guys who was convicted in Matthew Perry's case, Eric Fleming, he was working as a drug addiction counselor. And he had a mutual friend who said, Perry's looking for some ketamine.
00:13:55
Speaker 3: I mean, look, it's just, if you.
00:13:57
Speaker 2: Connect, if you make any sort of, if you make it, if you facilitate, basically, anyone securing drugs that leads to their death, you are going to be almost certainly held criminally responsible.
00:14:08
Speaker 1: They did Matthew Perry so wrong. They really did. They knew how bad of shape he was in, and they took advantage that he was desperate to get this stuff. He had people around him who were not helping him.
00:14:19
Speaker 3: He certainly did.
00:14:19
Speaker 2: You know what's interesting, too, with this breaking news with Hayden and the word actually now confirming what TMZ had? What do you make of that statement by her rep from earlier that basically was shooting down the TMZ report and saying.
00:14:34
Speaker 3: Don't believe.
00:14:37
Speaker 2: unnamed sources don't believe reports and rumors circulating, and they were clearly pointing directly to the TMZ report, maybe they wanted it to be known that it wasn't just fentanyl, that it wasn't one single pill, an oxycodone pill gotten on the black market that had fentanyl accidentally or deliberately laced with it, but know that there were other prescription drugs that were possibly contributing to her death. That may mean more people could be facing charges if she shouldn't have been taking any of those drugs.
00:15:07
Speaker 3: We don't know.
00:15:08
Speaker 1: We just don't. But all we know now is that this 36 year old troubled actress at times in her life is now dead. Um, and the things that were there upon her death are the things we know hurt her in life. Most the guy that beat her and the drugs she couldn't get away from. That sucks. That just sucks, baby. Um, This isn't over. It is not. Oh, yeah. They know how she died, and it was an accident.
00:15:42
Speaker 2: She did not mean to kill herself.
00:15:44
Speaker 1: Yes, but that does not mean someone is not responsible for her death. So this investigation continues. We just want to hop on and give you that information. It just came down moments ago. But, yes, Hayden Panetti, the official cause of death. has been released. So we appreciate you as always, folks, spending some time with us. I'm TJ. On behalf of my dear Amy Robach, we will be talking to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and we just got word, official word of the cause of death of actress Hayden Panettiere. And with that, welcome to this breaking episode of Amy and TJ. Just a few moments ago, actually, this official cause just came across the road, and it's what actually TMZ previously reported and what many people did suspect.
00:00:31
Speaker 2: Yes, her cause of death has been revealed as an accidental overdose. Specifically, the medical examiner's office released... that Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, alprazolam, meth carbamol, and quetipine.
00:00:53
Speaker 3: I tried to say those as best as possible.
00:00:55
Speaker 1: What do we have there? One, two, three, four, five different things, drugs or chemicals in her system is what we are being told. Again, robes. They also need to make clear there is no... There was no trauma. There was no sign of foul play. They did say that very early on. They said that from the very beginning, we should say. And yes, they did confirm that through this as well, the actual autopsy. And a reminder here, Robes, you reminded me of it more often when we do these updates and these stories, that bag of pills.
00:01:24
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:01:25
Speaker 1: Bag of pills. Was it the boyfriend or the brother?
00:01:27
Speaker 3: It was the boyfriend.
00:01:29
Speaker 2: It was Brian Hickerson who, according to the police report, gave police when they showed up to that Airbnb, a bag of prescription pills and said, this is what she was taking.
00:01:42
Speaker 3: So yes, some of those.
00:01:44
Speaker 2: Pills were prescribed by a doctor, but even we know the smallest dose of fentanyl can be lethal.
00:01:53
Speaker 3: So to have fentanyl.
00:01:55
Speaker 2: In there with all of these other drugs, and we'll go over what all of these drugs were, amounted to a fatal dose.
00:02:02
Speaker 1: A reminder, Rose, it was August 16th, and it was a part of a really rough stretch of celebrity deaths. Wasn't Dolly Parton dazed?
00:02:13
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:02:13
Speaker 1: She dazed after that. We had a couple of actors die. It was just August 16th of the last few weeks. It was. It was really, really heavy, and she was so young, 36 years old, and the back and forth and the engagement of who is this guy she's with is supposed to be an ex, and she still caught up with him, and he had already been faced charges and was guilty on charges of abusing this woman. And I don't know what was going on in her life, obviously. But some suggested her mom, which isn't the best source, I guess, babe, but that this guy was just bad news for her. Nobody's saying he did anything. But she ended up in a place she was trying to get out of, which was with this guy and away from drugs.
00:02:55
Speaker 2: To think that just two months before her death, she actually had instructed security guards to keep Brian Hickerson away from some of the public events she was holding, promoting her new book, where she was describing her struggles, where she talked about overcoming addiction, postpartum depression, losing custody of her child, or at least giving up custody of her child.
00:03:18
Speaker 3: And she went.
00:03:18
Speaker 2: Through this arc of her life, including all the troubles with her mom.
00:03:22
Speaker 3: So by all accounts, it.
00:03:24
Speaker 2: Seemed as recently as June that she was on her way. She was on that continuing road of recovery. And then all of a sudden she.
00:03:33
Speaker 3: Winds up dead.
00:03:34
Speaker 2: And this guy, this, what we believed at the time was her ex-boyfriend, but it's been described as her on again, off again.
00:03:41
Speaker 3: Boyfriend was with her at the time of her death.
00:03:44
Speaker 2: So yes, her mother spoke out, pointed the finger directly at him that he has been a terrible influence in her life. and obviously we know the documented criminal history involving violence between the two, but certainly he also had struggled with addiction. So to have two people struggling with addiction together, probably not the best of circumstances, but obviously something that her family wanted to point out, and police are almost certainly investigating.
00:04:11
Speaker 1: Oh, you better believe. Oh, yes. They are looking into him. They're looking into where she got these drugs, whether it's from a legit doctor or not. They are all... being looked at at this point. And Robe, when was the book? Wasn't the book her book?
00:04:25
Speaker 3: It was out, I believe, in May of this year. And she was on a book tour.
00:04:29
Speaker 1: So she's been fresh talking about this stuff. Robe's in which, to some degree, you might think was cathartic. But you don't put yourself out there. You would guess if you're not in a good place, right? She wrote this book, which I thought, Robe's, and the idea was that this was a new start. This was fresh. She's on The rebound, things are going well for her. Robes, it was just talking about this stuff. And then a few months later, she ends up dead. And what they're telling us now, Robes, it was in fact drugs. This is something she's talked about for years. She did stints in rehab over. Robes, she's talked about her postpartum issues.
00:05:08
Speaker 2: And we know she was in chronic pain. So that was part of the issue. Her mom acknowledged it. We see pictures of her on crutches. She apparently was hurt. And not that there was even one event, but she was repeatedly injured doing some of her own stunt work. on some of the movies and shows she's been a part of over the years.
00:05:27
Speaker 3: And so, yes, she talked about chronic back pain. And so that is part of all of this.
00:05:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again, I'd never heard of most of these drugs that are listed. We'll tell you what they are for. But Robeshe's, you think about, and I still go back to the mama, The mom's statement, they weren't close, and she put out a couple of statements. They all seemed self-serving, and they were interpreted by a lot of people. But Robes, she did point the finger at this guy, who for a lot of people, when they say she's dead, wait, who was there? That guy? From years back? Robes, he has already gotten all kinds of hell and heat. What is this now going to do to everything that was coming his way?
00:06:11
Speaker 2: Look. Obviously, he knows he's under investigation, not just in the court of public opinion, but certainly by DEA agents who almost immediately were put on this investigation. And look, we can look to the deaths of Matthew Perry, Michael Jackson. These were all accidental overdoses. However, in both of those cases, We saw eventually people charged with supplying those drugs to those high-profile celebrities who died.
00:06:43
Speaker 1: Wasn't the Michael Jacks, that was a doctor who was treating him. Yes. He still ended up in prison.
00:06:48
Speaker 3: Propofol, yes.
00:06:49
Speaker 1: Yes, still ended up in prison. So just because some of these were legit drugs prescribed by legit doctors, Robes, they're going after everybody. 36 years old, this young woman is dead because she took something. Who gave it to her?
00:07:04
Speaker 2: Exactly. And it appears some of the drugs, and these would have been the ones in the prescription pill bottles, we can assume, when Brian Hickerson handed these over to police, we know what some of these drugs are. The Alprazolam is generic for Xanax. I think most people know what Xanax is. It's used to treat anxiety and panic attacks.
00:07:25
Speaker 3: Methocarbamol. I hadn't heard of that one in particular, but it's a muscle relaxant.
00:07:29
Speaker 2: And a lot of folks know that if you have back pain, if you have chronic pain, oftentimes you would be prescribed a muscle relaxant. That makes sense. Now, this other one I'm probably saying wrong. Q-teopine is an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. So presumably all three of these would be able to be you'd be able to receive these prescriptions from legit MDs, legit doctors. Now, did the same doctor prescribe all of these? Did she doctor shop? Did they know about the other medication she was on? And then how does that all fit into the, what was reportedly an oxycodone pill that had fentanyl, and this pill was, according to Brian Hickerson, or at least according to TMZ, was, she got.
00:08:18
Speaker 3: It on the black market.
00:08:20
Speaker 1: That was the TMZ original reporting.
00:08:22
Speaker 3: That's the TMZ reporting.
00:08:23
Speaker 1: And they, to their credit here, Robes, they know how sensitive this was. They said who their sources were and then came back and reemphasized, like, we have several people, a part of this investigation, who have told us that a fentanyl-laced pill. So would that one pill have done it, minus all this other stuff? I don't know how that works, but still, they think it was the fentanyl. So the fentanyl was in her system as well, but this I'd never heard of this. 4-ANPP. Never heard that before, but that's how it is. And the way they write it out is 4-A-NPP. Can't give you the real technical name, but it's some chemical component that's used to make fentanyl. So it's not actually a drug of itself that gives you a high, but it fits there. it needs to be there in order for fentanyl to be made, is how they explain it. Correct.
00:09:16
Speaker 2: It's like a synthetic version of fentanyl. I don't understand how all of this works. But we know that TMZ also reported on these text messages that DEA officials, this is from their law enforcement sources, were going through and they said there were plenty of back and forth between Hayden Panettiere and her go-to regular drug dealer.
00:09:40
Speaker 3: And so they were examining all of that.
00:09:42
Speaker 2: And what they'll do is they'll piece together the days leading up to her death. Who was she talking to? Who was supplying these drugs? Was Brian Hickerson a part of any of this? And certainly this unnamed drug dealer. And certainly these doctors who prescribed this medication, were they aware of what she was taking, how much she was taking?
00:10:03
Speaker 1: How does that work with Brian Hickerson, babe? If he procured, right? What if he got stuff for her? What is his liability here? The drug dealer, obviously, if you give a fentanyl-laced pill to somebody that makes you an illegal drug dealer.
00:10:18
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:10:19
Speaker 1: Okay, so that person clearly would be in trouble. But what is the level?
00:10:23
Speaker 3: Look, you go back to Matthew Perry. I'd have to go back and look. But his assistant, like people.
00:10:27
Speaker 2: Who were just around him, who perhaps either were complicit in him taking these pills or knew about him taking these.
00:10:34
Speaker 3: Pills, they were all implicated. There were, what, five.
00:10:37
Speaker 2: People who were eventually charged and they either pleaded or were convicted.
00:10:42
Speaker 3: In contributing to his death.
00:10:44
Speaker 2: So we know that police and investigators take this very seriously and they will prosecute anyone who had any role in contributing to Hayden Pinataire or whatever celebrity took whatever drugs that contributed to their death.
00:11:01
Speaker 3: They're all fair game.
00:11:03
Speaker 1: Well, stay here, folks. We will remind you of what happened in the Matthew Perry case and why so many people ended up convicted of a crime. And yes, several of them got significant prison sentences.
00:11:25
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Amy and TJ.
00:11:27
Speaker 2: We are just getting word, this is a breaking news story, that the official cause of actress Hayden Panettiere's death was an accidental overdose, and the medical examiner's office listed a couple of different drugs that were in her system, but among them, and notably, fentanyl. They have absolutely determined contributed to the young actress's untimely death.
00:11:52
Speaker 1: Robes, it's... Why is it we can get some toxicology reports back and it takes years to get others?
00:11:59
Speaker 3: It's so true.
00:12:00
Speaker 1: What is this?
00:12:00
Speaker 3: We got this back almost immediately.
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Speaker 1: Rose, it was August 16th. She died. Wow. That's a month. And oftentimes it'll be three months. But Rose, we've been waiting in some cases for a long time for toxicology reports. It's always just interesting to see this. But Rose, I'm looking here. Matthew Perry, five people you said you have in front of you as well.
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 1: I see prison sentences. of two years, eight months, two and a half years, three and a half years, and 15 years, ranging from everybody from his personal assistant to the ketamine queen, whoever this lady is.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, they, and look, there are usually almost always clear evidence pointing to whoever contributed to securing.
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Speaker 3: The drugs, administering the drugs.
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Speaker 2: Look, his personal assistant, Matthew Perry's, I believe, he actually acted as his drug messenger and personally injected him We don't know what, if any, role Brian Hickerson, his brother Zach, what they may have played in the days leading up to Hayden's death or even the morning of her death. But if anyone purchased a drug on her behalf or facilitated the meeting or the interaction between her and this drug dealer, all of them are subject to being prosecuted.
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Speaker 1: You'll probably remember this, too. Wasn't that during the Diddy trial? Didn't he have assistants who were getting drugs, but they all got immunity?
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Speaker 2: They got immunity to testify to what they saw and what they knew, but they absolutely would have been subject to criminal charges had they not gotten that immunity deal.
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Speaker 1: Without a doubt. So here, this thing, like you say, Robes, it's not just a matter of if you sold it or not. If you secured it. We have seen people get into some legal trouble for this.
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Speaker 2: If you say, I know a guy. And you connect the two. That absolutely works. I mean, one of the guys who was convicted in Matthew Perry's case, Eric Fleming, he was working as a drug addiction counselor. And he had a mutual friend who said, Perry's looking for some ketamine.
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Speaker 3: I mean, look, it's just, if you.
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Speaker 2: Connect, if you make any sort of, if you make it, if you facilitate, basically, anyone securing drugs that leads to their death, you are going to be almost certainly held criminally responsible.
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Speaker 1: They did Matthew Perry so wrong. They really did. They knew how bad of shape he was in, and they took advantage that he was desperate to get this stuff. He had people around him who were not helping him.
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Speaker 3: He certainly did.
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Speaker 2: You know what's interesting, too, with this breaking news with Hayden and the word actually now confirming what TMZ had? What do you make of that statement by her rep from earlier that basically was shooting down the TMZ report and saying.
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Speaker 3: Don't believe.
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Speaker 2: unnamed sources don't believe reports and rumors circulating, and they were clearly pointing directly to the TMZ report, maybe they wanted it to be known that it wasn't just fentanyl, that it wasn't one single pill, an oxycodone pill gotten on the black market that had fentanyl accidentally or deliberately laced with it, but know that there were other prescription drugs that were possibly contributing to her death. That may mean more people could be facing charges if she shouldn't have been taking any of those drugs.
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Speaker 3: We don't know.
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Speaker 1: We just don't. But all we know now is that this 36 year old troubled actress at times in her life is now dead. Um, and the things that were there upon her death are the things we know hurt her in life. Most the guy that beat her and the drugs she couldn't get away from. That sucks. That just sucks, baby. Um, This isn't over. It is not. Oh, yeah. They know how she died, and it was an accident.
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Speaker 2: She did not mean to kill herself.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but that does not mean someone is not responsible for her death. So this investigation continues. We just want to hop on and give you that information. It just came down moments ago. But, yes, Hayden Panetti, the official cause of death. has been released. So we appreciate you as always, folks, spending some time with us. I'm TJ. On behalf of my dear Amy Robach, we will be talking to you soon.