Gayle King recalls ‘hard’ interview with Hayden Panettiere before her death

• CBS Mornings anchor Gayle King expressed heartbreak over the death of actor Hayden Panettiere, who died on Sunday at age 36.
• Panettiere passed away after police responded to a South Carolina apartment building for a report of a woman in cardiac arrest, with no foul play suspected.
• During a May appearance on CBS Mornings to promote her memoir, Panettiere spoke candidly about her struggles with addiction, postpartum depression and grief.
• King recalled that although Panettiere told her off-camera that she felt she was in a good place, she was “clearly still struggling,” adding that waking up to news of her death was “really tough.”
• In what transpired to be one of her final interviews, the actor shared that she was healthier than she had been in a long time and working on herself in therapy.

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Gayle King says Hayden Panettiere was ‘clearly still struggling’ in their interview 3 months before her death