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Actress Hayden Panettiere died from fentanyl-laced oxycodone pill, according to report

Katherine Langford
Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Monday, September 14, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Actress Hayden Panettiere died from fentanyl-laced oxycodone pill, according to report  — WPLG Local 10, Delray Beach Dining news
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Actress Hayden Panettiere died last month at age 36 from taking a single fentanyl-laced oxycodone pill, TMZ reported Monday morning.The outlet cited multiple law enforcement sources, who they said confirmed that Panettiere “had a ‘long time drug dealer’ in Los Angeles, who was providing her several black-market prescription drugs, including oxycodone.”TMZ reported that the actress is believed to have taken several drugs the day before her death and the oxycodone pill the morning she died.“We’re told the DEA in Los Angeles is actively piecing together the relationship between Hayden and her drug dealer, attempting to trace the fatal pill back to him,” TMZ reported. The day of her deathPanettiere’s on-and-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were at the South Carolina apartment where the actor died on Aug. 16, according to a police report.A Greenville police officer who responded to the residence was met by the brothers and then observed paramedics performing CPR

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