Jason Mendez/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Tap Here To Add Us Weekly As A Trusted Source Add as a preferred source on Google Hayden Panettiere's ex Brian Hickerson is addressing allegations of abuse in their previous relationship ahead of the highly-anticipated release of her upcoming memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning. "Man, I mean, I think it speaks for itself ... I got arrested for abusing her," Hickerson said in an interview with TMZ on Tuesday, May 12. " And I wouldn't blame her friends for being pissed off at me." Panettiere and Hickerson were first linked in 2018.