RHOBH star denied claims she put a teenage Hayden Panettiere in bed with ‘famous undressed man’
Hayden recalled she 'had nowhere to hide' when it happened
Prior to her death, Hayden Panettiere claimed that a trusted friend had betrayed her as a teenager by putting her into bed with an “undressed man who was very famous” whilst on a yacht.
During the book, Hayden recalled that she was “led by somebody that I had grown to trust and see as a protector” down a set of stairs and into a small room. “She physically put me in the bed next to this undressed man who was very famous. My hair stood on end, and I became ferocious. I was like, ‘This is not happening.’”
She continued: “I had nowhere to hide. I bolted, and I hid wherever I could think of to hide on a boat. There was no jumping off and swimming away…and I realized that there was nobody who was going to be empathetic to my situation — that this was nothing new to them.”
As a result of the friend not being named, rumours immediately started circulating about who it could be, with people baselessly speculating it was former RHOBH’s cast member Diana Jenkins.
Diana and Hayden first met when she was just 19, with Diana being almost 50, with her recalling in her memoir: “Diana was almost thirty years older than me, and while I’d always been mature for my age, it’s impossible to overlook an age difference that large. It was a weird friendship for sure, but as I stretched into my newfound adulthood, I had to see which relationships suited me, on my own terms. At that moment, Diana seemed like she could give me everything I needed.”
This isn’t the first time Diana has had to deny false rumours about her, as she’s dealt with speculation for over a decade that she once ran a “secret call girl ring.”
The allegations all started as a result of her book, Room 23, which Diana published in 2009 and featured provocative pictures of Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, George Clooney and Hayden Panettiere, who was 20 years old at the time.
The rumours then resurfaced again when Diana joined RHOBH, with her saying in a confessional that the claims her book was “a catalogue of clients and call girls” had been “an offense of my character.” She also sued the blogger who had falsely claimed she was a “sex trafficker.”
The RHOBH star clarified at the time she was in no way linked to what happened to Hayden Panettiere, with a rep for Diana Jenkins telling TMZ at the time: “Diana has had to deal with false online rumors before, and sadly this is just another example of that. So let me be 100 per cent clear about this: It most certainly is not Diana, and anyone who claims it is her will be sued.”
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