Rodriguez and Panettiere once hosted the World Music Awards together. Now Rodriguez is remembering her as “happy and joyous” with a “curious spirit,” and saying out loud what a lot of people are thinking about how many young stars are dying.
Michelle Rodriguez and Hayden Panettiere take the stage together as co-hosts of the World Music Awards 2010 in Monte Carlo, with Panettiere holding a microphone and smiling broadly. Photo by Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images.On the red carpet in Monte Carlo, Monaco, Panettiere and Rodriguez pose together during arrivals at the World Music Awards 2010, held May 18, 2010. Photo by Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images.
Hayden Panettiere and Michelle Rodriguez share a laugh on the red carpet ahead of the World Music Awards at the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on May 18, 2010. Photo by Stephane Danna / AFP via Getty Images.
“I just can’t stand how many young people are leaving us lately,” she told Variety. “It’s disheartening. It’s not normal.”
Panettiere addresses the audience mid-sentence, microphone in hand, while Rodriguez listens attentively beside her during the World Music Awards show at the Sporting Club in Monaco. Photo by Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images.
Caught in a moment of shared laughter at the arrivals, Panettiere and Rodriguez lean into each other against the World Music Awards step-and-repeat backdrop in Monaco. Photo by Stephane Danna / AFP via Getty Images.
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