Hayden Panettiere's Shady Ex Reportedly Found New Ways To Be Awful

Brian Hickerson has been a dark cloud over Hayden Panettiere’s life for the better part of a decade, so I’m not going to rehash his arrest because we all know he’s scum. That’s why his presence during her death has raised all kinds of eyebrows along with increasing reports that the couple has most likely been back together for a while now. Neighbors have come forward with allegations of seeing not just him, but Panettiere being wheeled out on a gurney twice in recent years.

The signs all point to the likelihood of an going relationship between Panettiere and Hickerson, so, of course, there’s already one report of him trying to pick up women as recently as April.

According to Page Six, Hickerson reportedly exchanged contact info with a 25-year-old woman at a bar in South Carolina in late March. The woman notably did not recall giving Hickerson her info because she was drunk, and in absolute fairness to her, she had no idea who the heck he was. As far as she knew, he was just some creepy older dude who slid into her DMs.

She told us she “stopped corresponding” because she “lost interest” in Hickerson, explaining she wasn’t keen on their age gap and was uncomfortable with having no memory of their meeting.

Hickerson then appears to have texted the woman twice using a number that matches one we have for him. On April 2, he wrote, “Hey you it’s Brian Hickerson. Figured I’d text you since you don’t check Insta.”

After she did not reply, he messaged again on April 4, “Im gonna be out of town for work till next Monday. So how about we shoot for halls mid week?”

Again the woman did not write back. Hours later, Hickerson replied to her Instagram Story in which she had urged anyone who didn’t have a church buddy for Easter Sunday — the following day — to reach out so she could join them.

Hickerson responded, “Goodness you must be reading my mind haha I was gonna skip tomorrow because it was just me. Where do you go?” The woman did not engage.

After that, Hickerson reportedly stopped texting, and that was the end of that until Panettiere died. That’s when alarm bells started going off, and the woman quickly learned just exactly who this guy was.

“I vaguely remembered the name and began looking through my direct messages,” the woman told Page Six. “The possibility that I had unknowingly become connected to a high-profile relationship, especially in these unfortunate circumstances, was beyond my comprehension.”

For the record, as of this writing, the status of Hickerson and Panettiere’s relationship at that time is unknown. The math doesn’t look good, but the two were notoriously on and off. However, I don’t think anyone would be shocked if this interaction would have been news to Hayden. Sadly, we’ll never know, but it seems like there’s no shortage of people eager to read Hickerson for filth. That really says it all.