Hayden Panettiere Started Drinking at Age 8

But it’s really not what it sounds like.

“I was raised Italian and we always had diluted glasses of red wine at dinner time from about the age of 8,” she says. “That’s just what kids do in Italy. It wasn’t ever something bad.”

In America, that might get you charged with endangerment or neglect, and could get your kids taken away from you. But then, we have lots of people who die every year from binge drinking. I’ve heard that in other countries it’s pretty normal for kids to drink a little bit of alcohol at a younger age, and although Panettiere is American, her family is Italian, so this was normal for them.

I’m not passing any judgment on this one. Some people are pointing to this as further evidence that Panettiere is going to be the next young female actress to get hit by the pickled liver truck and fall onto the crazy wagon. Puh-lease. Everyone knows that it’s going to be Taylor Momsen.

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