The brother of Hayden Panettiere‘s boyfriend revealed that Brian Hickerson administered Narcan to the actor after both found her unconscious at a South Carolina townhouse on Sunday.
Zach Hickerson wrote to TMZ on Friday, giving the outlet a detailed account of what he experienced the day that the Heroes and Nashville actor was found unresponsive in the Airbnb in Greenville, South Carolina, where the on-off couple had just arrived. Brian Hickerson dated Panettiere on and off since 2018; he was arrested several times in the subsequent years for domestic abuse and, at one point, pleaded no contest to two felony charges related to an assault against Panettiere.
A heavily redacted incident report from the Greenville Police Department released this week reveals details of the brothers’ reaction to Panettiere’s death. After first responders attempted but failed to revive Panettiere, Brian Hickerson became very emotional, according to the report; he also showed authorities a bag containing medication he said she was taking.
Zach Hickerson reached out to TMZ to clarify the public record on what he experienced on Sunday so that he can now “mourn without additional noise, chaos, and misinformation being created and propagated by the media as well as the public.”
