Hilary Duff shared an emotional tribute to Hayden Panettiere Tuesday, two days after the late actress’ tragic death.

The former Disney star, 38, reminisced about their friendship and bond as fellow child stars in the early 2000s, while acknowledging they’d lost touch.

“Sweet Hayden. Really tough hearing this news,” Duff wrote on Instagram. “We lost touch through the years but I will always remember you as so hardworking and effervescent, with that big, gorgeous smile.”

“I remember staying up late, chatting and gossiping, and connecting because we were part of such a small sliver of people who actually understood the strange lot in life we were…

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