There are celebrity deaths that make you gasp, check Twitter, and send a string of existential fire-emoji texts to your best friend. And then there are losses that feel like someone quietly walked into your teenage bedroom, peeled off the glossy posters, and shut the door behind them.

Death of a Cheerleader: Why Losing Hayden Panettiere Hits Like the Final Page of a 2000s Cosmopolitan

There are celebrity deaths that make you gasp, check Twitter, and send a string of existential fire-emoji texts to your best friend. And then there are losses that feel like someone quietly walked into your teenage bedroom, peeled off the glossy posters, and shut the door behind them. Hayden Panettiere passing at 36 is undeniably the latter. The number feels wildly incorrect, a complete mathematical … Continue reading Death of a Cheerleader: Why Losing Hayden Panettiere Hits Like the Final Page of a 2000s Cosmopolitan