Hayden Panettiere is spilling why her Nashville set never turned into a tight-knit crew. The actress opened up in her new memoir about feeling isolated despite the shared new-city experience.
Hayden Panettiere played Juliette Barnes on the hit series Nashville from 2012 to 2018. She told readers she simply could not figure out why the cast never bonded like she expected. In This Is Me: A Reckoning the 36-year-old wrote, We were all new faces in a strange town, yet we weren't growing into friends. Most nights she hit the bars alone after co-stars like Connie Britton and Charles Esten headed straight home to their families. The blonde beauty did crash at Jonathan Jackson's Franklin house a few times for dinner and a guest bed, but the rest of the time she rolled with hairdressers, bartenders and single lawyers who loved to party hard. At 23 she had the tolerance of an elephant and zero regrets until after daughter Kaya arrived.