Hayden Panettiere opened up about a disturbing situation when she was 18 that involved a close industry associate she trusted and a "very famous" actor.

The 36-year-old Nashville actress talked about the incident, which she also mentions in her upcoming memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning , on Monday’s episode of the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast.

Near the 27-minute mark in the video linked here , Panettiere described an incident where she was led by somebody she had “grown to trust and see as a protector” walked to a downstairs area of a boat and into a room where an undressed and supposedly well-known Hollywood actor lay in the bed. She described the outing as initially normal and unexpected in its escalation.

“I was quite literally walked down—and I had been having a great time. There was no hints of anything like that happening … I was shocked," she prefaced.…