Panettiere entered treatment for a third time in 2020, spending eight months in rehab. “I was truly scared,” she recalled. “I had pushed my body to a point where my eyes turned yellow, I was struggling with jaundice, and [not having the] courage to exit my house. I went to the doctor and had a blood test and he, in no uncertain terms, told me that if you do not put a stop to this right now, then your body’s not going to be able to recover. I started doing research about liver transplants and read [that] even if you get [one], that could only buy you five years of life. And so I was like, ‘This is very, very serious, and this has gotten completely out of hand, and I can’t seem to find the strength to do it myself.’”