Hayden Panettiere was offered up to Hollywoods crushing machine by the very people who should have protected her

For all the sequels and remakes pumped out by Hollywood, the most overplayed storyline is the death or downfall of a once luminous child star — usually at the hands of addiction or mental illness.Hayden Panettiere is now sadly one of them.The troubled actress passed away over the weekend from an apparent overdose.

She was only 36, just five days short of her next birthday.In May, Panettiere released her heartbreaking memoir, “This is Me: A Reckoning,” where she laid bare her harrowing battles with addiction, domestic abuse and the postpartum depression that led her to give up custody of her daughter, Kaya, to her former partner, Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko.The revelatory book was her story.But it was also an indictment of the industry that turned her into a household name.Remember, Tinseltown is a place where its brightest stars not only make movies — they also export their values and morality and lecture us every chance they get.But consider the source.Over at Variety, writer Marlow Stern argued that it was Hollywood that “failed Panettiere.”Indeed, the actress provided ample evidence to support this theory, writing that someone on her team gave her “happy pills” at the tender age of 15.“They were to make me peppy during interviews,” Panettiere said.

“I had no idea that this was not an appropriate thing, or what door that would open for me when it came to my addiction.”She detailed the disgusting story of an older female friend hand-delivering her, a beautiful 18-year-old starlet, to a “very famous” older man lying in bed — presumably waiting for the next meal to be dropped into his lair.Ever dutiful, Panettiere never named names.The showbiz blob —  with all its cretins and creatures, and its culture that treats child stars as commodities — is dangerous for impressionable young people.But we must be honest.No sane person should allow their child to be raised by — or in — the industry.The first line of defense agai...