Hayden Panettiere's secret lover, boyfriend Brian Hickerson's brother, ‘got very emotional’ as she lay dying, while Brian ‘did not’ until she was declared dead; both brothers were at the scene

Hayden Panettiere’s final moments are under renewed scrutiny after a police report revealed that both brothers from her complicated relationship history, her on-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his older brother Zach, were present when the actress was found unresponsive at a South Carolina apartment. According to details reported by the Daily Mail from the heavily redacted police report, Zach became “very emotional” as emergency responders tried to revive Panettiere, while Brian was described as not visibly emotional until after she was pronounced dead.

The revelation comes as the Daily Mail reports that Panettiere was previously romantically linked to Zach, during a period when Brian was facing domestic-violence proceedings. The two were photographed holding hands in New York in September 2019, although contemporary reporting at the time disputed that they were dating.