Hayden Panettiere, the troubled actress who passed away from a suspected overdose, was reportedly “struggling” and “really lonely” during the production of her last film, revealed her co-star Justin Chatwin.

Panettiere, who died just days shy of her 37th birthday, completed filming on the psychological thriller “Sleepwalker” in February. In this movie, she portrayed a distraught mother dealing with the traumatic loss of her daughter in a car accident.

Having relinquished custody of her own daughter, Panettiere’s role mirrored aspects of her personal life. She also depicted a victim of domestic abuse, an experience she endured during her tumultuous relationship with her ex-boyfriend, Brian Hickerson.

Chatwin, who portrayed Panettiere’s abusive husband in the film, shared with People magazine that they bonded well on set. “It was a fantastic shoot, but considering the theme of domestic abuse, it might have been too relatable for her, as she did bring it up,” he explained on Monday.

Chatwin, renowned for his role in “Shameless,” had known Panettiere prior to filming and observed that she “seemed different” during the making of what would eventually be her final movie. Her sudden demise from a suspected overdose this weekend marks the end of her tumultuous yet remarkable journey.

“I could tell she was struggling, and I was like, ‘I don’t think it’s this movie,” he said of likely troubles off the set.

“There’s a handful of women that I’ve worked with that I really liked, and I really loved working with her, but I also know that she was really lonely.”

Canadian-born Chatwin, 43, said Panettiere “was authentic… about her life and she opened up about her struggles with addiction” while on set of the movie, which was released in January, Chatwin said.

“She was delightful and super open and we had a great time together and I’m just saddened that another one got taken down,” Chatwin said.

The actress’ shocking death came just three months after she published her deeply candid memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” in which the former child star opened up about her harrowing battles with alcohol and opioid addiction, postpartum depression, domestic abuse and the pressures of growing up in Hollywood. Hickerson has also admitted being abusive toward her.

Brandon Auman, the movie’s writer and director, described Panettiere as a “bright, open, [and] numinous spirit.”

“She was open and honest about the last few years of her life and how it related to her character,” he told People. 

“I’m keeping those conversations private, but I was struck by how complex and deeply introspective she was. She lived a dozen lives in one short beautiful life. I’ll miss her forever.”

Panettiere, who shared daughter Kyla with ex-boxing champ Wladimir Klitschko, was found unresponsive by an unidentified acquaintance inside a Greenville, South Carolina, apartment on Sunday having suffered a cardiac arrest following a suspected overdose.

She flew out of Los Angeles with Hickerson the previous day — though it’s not clear if he placed the call.

Panettiere died five days before her 37th birthday.

Outgoing Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace has responded to the media uproar ignited by her recent bikini photos, which revealed her collection of nine new tattoos.

The 48-year-old representative from South Carolina showcased her tattooed arms while wearing a bikini in a dynamic introduction for “Get Maced.” The clip captured her engaging in surfing and firing an automatic weapon.

Her social media posts quickly went viral, prompting Fox News commentator Raymond Arroyo to describe the display as ‘a cry for help.’

In response to the controversy over her appearance, Mace addressed the situation on social media, expressing surprise over the intense attention.

“Thoughts and prayers to all those affected by my sleeves. Made the mistake of opening my social media this afternoon. Some of y’all are OUT OF CONTROL,” Mace humorously remarked in her post.

‘My biceps should NOT be a news story. We have more important things to worry about. Goodness. And God Bless America.’

Arroyo joined the chorus of commentators on Laura Ingraham’s show Monday suggesting that Mace’s actions could even have a negative effect on other women.

‘My heart goes out to her and it sounds like there was some traumatic things. But tats are not therapy. This is a cry for help. But this is a bad message to women,’ he said.

Arroyo, who works for the Catholic-themed cable network EWTN, also slammed her for getting a tattoo of the Virgin Mary. 

‘She does have the Virgin Mary on the arm there. I wish she would pray to the Virgin Mary rather than placing a tattoo of her on her bicep,’ he said.

Mace first revealed in a February Politico profile that she got nine tattoos in rapid succession during a tumultuous period marked by the end of her engagement and the departure of her entire congressional staff.

She says she got inked to experience ‘the pain that I need to feel.’

She described the tattoos as a way to ‘reclaim’ her body and identity after years of trauma she has publicly detailed, including being molested and raped as a teenager.

One is the opening line from Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway: ‘Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.’

Other designs include the word ‘Justice,’ a saintly figure, a lion, a bird, a flower and a sun.

Donald Trump, whom Mace has described as a ‘father figure,’ has taken an interest in her ink, telling a group of South Carolina politicos last December that he had heard she had a number of ‘freaky tattoos,’ Fits News reported.

Until last week, Mace had almost entirely concealed the work in public appearances, even as she campaigned for governor and continued serving in the House.

She finished a distant fifth in the June Republican primary for South Carolina governor after failing to win Trump’s endorsement and later passed on a potential Senate bid after the death of Lindsey Graham.

Her term ends in January 2027, leaving her without an elected office for the first time in almost a decade.

The YouTube channel, where she plans to comment on daily news, already features segments on topics ranging from the WNBA to ‘radical Islam.’

In the intro video, Mace appears in a black bikini and later sleeveless at a microphone, making the tattoos impossible to miss.

Social media users reacted with a mix of shock and mockery, with some refusing to believe the images were not AI-generated. ‘What the f***,’ one X user wrote. Another said: ‘We’re living in a simulation.’

Mace has long framed her personal struggles as central to her political identity.

‘My story is I am totally broken,’ she told Politico in February. ‘I have PTSD over what I’ve been through.’

She has spoken repeatedly about a difficult relationship with her father, a decorated Vietnam War hero, and about suffering sexual abuse as a teenager.

The tattoos arrived amid a period of intense therapy and legal battles stemming from her February 2025 House floor speech accusing her former fiancé and three associates of sex abuse.

All four men denied the claims. Litigation continues, with Mace at times representing herself.

‘It’s just my reaction and my response,’ she said of the ink. ‘And it keeps me alive.’

Mace worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign and remained a visible ally until her support for releasing the Epstein files created distance between them.

She told NewsNation last month that the split ‘may have ended’ her future political aspirations.

With her House career winding down, the YouTube venture marks her clearest attempt to stay in the public eye on her own terms.

The promo ends with the simple declaration: ‘What happens when a Bulldog leaves Washington? She takes the fight to the people.’

As the 60-day deadline for the United States and Iran to finalize a deal came and went on Monday, no agreement was announced. Instead, President Donald Trump has intensified his language toward Tehran, and his administration is gearing up for what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has termed a groundbreaking new phase of economic pressure.

“They ought to raise the white flag of surrender,” Trump said in a phone interview with Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Monday. The President expressed no urgency to finalize a deal and revealed the existence of a direct communication channel with officials from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Under a memorandum of understanding signed in June, the United States and Tehran agreed to negotiate a final deal within 60 days, which could be extended if both sides consented. However, according to a Reuters report on Monday, the provisional agreement quickly unraveled due to a disagreement over control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. On July 7, Trump announced the deal was “over,” and subsequently, Tehran acknowledged its suspension.

This lapsed deadline places a critical question at the core of Trump’s Iran policy: Can the United States leverage military and maritime pressure into political gains by financially squeezing Tehran rather than escalating militarily? Prior to the war, the Strait of Hormuz was a crucial passage for around one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas, making this impasse a significant risk not only to Tehran but also to global energy resources and U.S. fuel prices.

“Watch this space for more announcements coming next week because we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history of economic isolation of a country,” Bessent told Newsmax on Aug. 13.

In comments provided to News Media on background, a Treasury spokesperson said, “Economic Fury has left the regime desperate for cash,” arguing that the campaign has constrained Tehran’s ability to generate and move revenue and pushed it further toward shadow-banking networks and cryptocurrency to evade sanctions.

Average Iranian oil loadings had fallen from 1.8 million barrels per day before the war to less than 500,000 barrels per day over the previous month, The Associated Press reported Aug. 11, citing Treasury figures. AP also cited an IMF projection that Iran’s economy would contract 5.4%.

Miad Maleki, a former Treasury sanctions analyst and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told News Media that the pressure is real.

“The numbers are brutal,” Maleki said, citing inflation, the collapsing rial and reduced oil traffic. He described the current campaign as “a maximum pressure campaign on a steroid.”

Reuters reported Monday, citing Iran’s Statistical Centre, that consumer prices in July were 87.9% higher than a year earlier and food prices were up 128%. President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged last week that Iran was selling less oil and collecting less tax revenue from struggling businesses.

Maleki argued that what distinguishes the current campaign from previous rounds of sanctions is the combination of financial restrictions and a physical blockade. “What really started, I would say, as Economic Fury, has now turned into maximum pressure on steroids,” he said, arguing that Tehran is being squeezed not only in its ability to export oil but also in its ability to bring critical goods into the country.

He pointed in particular to Iran’s gasoline deficit and weakening government revenues as vulnerabilities that could become increasingly difficult for the regime to manage. In November 2019, a sharp increase in government-set gasoline prices triggered nationwide demonstrations that rapidly broadened into anti-government protests. Reuters reported at the time that Iranian officials said roughly 200,000 people participated in the unrest, while thousands were arrested.

“The regime is very scared of another 2019,” Maleki said, arguing that Tehran has been reluctant to significantly raise retail fuel prices because of the potential political consequences.

But history also illustrates the limitation of Washington’s strategy: economic pain can bring Iranians into the streets without necessarily forcing the regime itself to concede.

The larger question, Maleki said, is who ultimately absorbs the pain.

Iran’s economic system, he argued, includes powerful foundations and elite networks tied to the IRGC and the supreme leader that were built long before today’s sanctions architecture.

“That elite network has spent about three decades insulating themselves from exactly this kind of pain,” Maleki said. “And historically, the regime always burns the population clock before really having to absorb any of that pressure themselves.”

Maleki said pressure can force “tactical concessions,” but broader concessions depend on whether the financial pain reaches IRGC-linked foundations, oligarchs and regime elites rather than remaining concentrated among ordinary Iranians.

Washington is already near “the ceiling on sanctions with Iran,” he argued, meaning the next phase may depend less on new legal tools than on enforcing existing restrictions against foreign enablers, including Chinese refineries, Hong Kong shell traders, exchange houses, shadow-fleet tankers and cryptocurrency channels.

So far, the pressure has not produced a final deal. Reuters reported Monday that a senior Iranian official threatened military escalation within weeks if Washington does not fully implement the interim agreement.

“The worst is still ahead for the Iranian regime,” Maleki said, arguing that payment-cycle delays mean the full fiscal impact of reduced oil exports may not be felt until the fall.

State Attorney General Tish James is currently entangled in other pursuits, appearing frequently in front of cameras and embroiled in lawsuits against the Trump administration. Meanwhile, she’s overlooked an urgent issue: the West Harlem Development Corp.’s $100 million debacle, marred by squandered resources, missed opportunities, and potential self-dealing.

Back in 2009, Columbia University established the WHDC as a conciliatory gesture to appease local influencers when the university sought state intervention through eminent domain to expand its footprint significantly within the neighborhood.

With tens of millions from the university, this nonprofit was charged with channeling funds into economic development initiatives in Harlem, including a $20 million commitment aimed at creating affordable housing.

However, rather than fulfill its mission, the WHDC transformed into a machine for political favors, dispensing grants to minor arts and youth groups in Harlem, awarding lucrative salaries to insiders with political ties, and — in a puzzling turn of events — reportedly contributing to a plan by the Council on American Islamic Relations for addressing the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and the ensuing hostage situation.

The anticipated economic revitalization and affordable housing never materialized. Instead, the organization became a pipeline for channeling funds and influence through well-connected individuals like current Chair Milton Tingling and Executive Director Zead Ramadan, who also serves on the board of CAIR-New York.

Tingling, a retired judge, was just named to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new Jew-free advisory panel on judicial appointments.

Ramadan is the central figure in a federal lawsuit against the WHDC, brought by its terminated director of housing development, Vincent Morgan, who taped his boss Ramadan’s allegedly racist rants about Dominicans, African-Americans, Zionists and Jewish control of New York City. (Ramadan has denied any wrongdoing.)

The dysfunction at the WHDC is well-known among uptown pols, who won’t go on the record about the noxious organization; Columbia has washed its hands of the whole thing after years of peeping about the waste and abuse.

But where’s crusading AG James, whose duties include policing New York tax-exempt charitable organizations?

She hasn’t been shy about suing groups with whose positions she dislikes, from the NRA to the Catholic Church, but declines to lift even an eyebrow about the scandalous WHDC.

The West Harlem Development Corp. is a poster child for the neglect and deep-rooted waste that defines so much “economic development” in New York, and the “community benefits” blackmail surrounding most large projects.

And that, no doubt, is why Tish James won’t do a thing to liberate the tens of millions still in the WHDC hoard for the actual good of the community.

In a disturbing turn of events, a couple under the influence turned a cruise vacation into chaos, barging into a neighboring cabin to assault a family following a noise complaint, as reported by a Florida sheriff.

According to Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey, the ill-fated holiday for Gannon Jacox and his girlfriend, Brooklyn Hicks, was cut short when they found themselves under arrest at Port Canaveral. Ivey provided these details in a Sunday-issued statement.

The duo, allegedly intoxicated, did not take kindly to a polite request from the neighboring family to lower their voices. Hicks, it appears, was particularly irked by this request, Ivey noted.

In a bold move, Hicks reportedly advanced towards the family’s cabin, with Jacox trailing behind. He was capturing the confrontation on his cellphone, allegedly urging her to escalate the situation.

Sheriff Ivey recounted the disturbing moment when “the suspects forced their entry into the victims’ room, which horrifically included a 9-year-old child.” The incident left both crew and passengers in shock.

‘As a fight ensued, Jacox ended up hitting all three people (including the child), and Hicks was just swinging, hoping one would land.’

The boyfriend sustained a severe eye injury that could be seen in his smiling mugshot, while his girlfriend chose the typical blank expression.

The sheriff added that, thankfully, none of the victims were seriously injured.

Jacox and Hicks were booked into the Brevard County Jail on Saturday, according to public records.

Hicks was charged with felony burglary with battery and misdemeanor battery (touch/strike) and was held on a $6,000 bond.

Jacox faces two burglary with assault charges and a child abuse charge without great bodily harm, in addition to misdemeanor battery (touch/strike).

He is being held on a $31,000 bond.

‘So what’s the moral of the story… if you can’t hold your liquor, then you definitely shouldn’t be out in public causing a scene like this and injuring random people, including a child!’ the sheriff said.

Ivey added that if his message was not clear enough, he suggested readers either stay out of Brevard County or avoid breaking the law there.

The sheriff is well known for his posts calling out suspects and criminals for their behavior while warning of the consequences.

‘Hopefully they enjoy their extended stay at their unplanned destination with close-quarter sleeping arrangements, communal showers, no drink packages and, of course, no excursions,’ Ivey said.

‘Of course, on a bright note they will have sandals, but not like the Sandals Resorts, just the ones you wear in the shower!’

‘You know the deal, folks. Break the law in Brevard County and I promise you the lodge will have a reservation with your name on it!’

According to Cruise Hive, four ships were in Port Canaveral on Saturday: Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas, Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Treasure, Mardi Gras and Carnival Freedom.

However, there has been no confirmation of which ship the incident occurred on.

The Daily Mail has reached out to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office for comment.