Hayden Panettiere talking about the brother Jansen Panettiere almost two weeks after his death.
While showing the Good morning America March 6, the Scream VI The actress thanked the co-anchor Michael Strahan for his condolences before he showed his eternal relationship with his dead brother.
“He is here with me,” he said while holding back tears at the end of his interview.
Hayden, 33, and his family experienced a terrible loss when Jansen died February 19 in New York at the age of 28. Soon after, his family paid tribute to his life in a personal statement.
“Jansen’s heart can be seen in his eyes, and his beauty in his bright, charming smile; his soul in his masterful and expressive paintings, and the joy of life in his dry wit,” Hayden—with said mom. Lesley Vogel and dad Skip Panettiere—said E! NEwS Feb. 27. “His charisma, warmth, compassion for others, and his creative spirit will live forever in our hearts and the hearts of all he met.”