Hayden Panettiere is opening up about her sexuality for the first time. The actress came out as bisexual in her “This Is Me: A Reckoning” memoir , out May 19, and discussed it in an interview with Us Weekly . “Now … that I’ve chosen to share it with the world, I’m comfortable to confidently say that yes, I am bisexual,” the “Heroes” alum, 36, told the outlet on Wednesday. “I said it! This is the first time I got to say it out loud.” Hayden Panettiere (pictured above in November 2025) has come out as bisexual. haydenpanettiere/instagram The actress discusses her sexuality in her upcoming memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning.” Grand Central Publishing While Panettiere never felt it was “the right time” to share her sexuality publicly, she quipped it’s “better late than never.” The “Nashville” alum pointed out that when she was young, she was “being forced to be perfect at all times” and “not encouraged to just be [her]self.” She added, “Then came the period where it felt like people coming out, especially…