Hayden Panettiere recalled trying not to break down in tears as she signed away rights to her daughter at a restaurant in front of a group of strangers.

“I was sitting there with these people, gritting my teeth as hard as I can to not start sobbing,” she shared during a panel discussion for her memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” in West Hollywood, California, just months before she died.

“And then I just heard them laughing and chuckling, and I was like, ‘I can’t believe you can watch somebody who’s obviously doing one of the most painful things in the world,’” she said, adding that she didn’t realize there would be witnesses present during…

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