For audiences, Racing Stripes was a cheerful 2005 family movie about an ambitious zebra determined to become a racehorse. For Hayden Panettiere , filming the movie came with a painful consequence that followed her for more than two decades.
Panettiere revealed in her 2026 memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning , that she suffered a serious accident while working on the film as a teenager. She fell from a zebra and experienced intense pain in her back and neck, injuries she said were still troubling her more than 20 years later.
The revelation has taken on added significance following Panettiere’s death at 36 on August 16, 2026. Her official cause and…
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