Gayle King had biting words for Hayden Panettiere’s mother after the former momager described her late daughter as an ‘amazingly talented person’ who ‘sadly lost her way.’

Throughout the actress’ life, the two had a strained relationship and Panettiere revealed three months before her death that they were not in touch.

In her first public remarks since her child’s passing, Lesley Vogel expressed regrets that her daughter didn’t stay ‘true to herself’ and had strayed from her path.

Memories of their strained relationship came back to King and her colleagues as she read a portion of Vogel’s statement on Wednesday’s episode of CBS Mornings.

‘You know, guys, you read this and all I can think is, “Thanks, Mom, for nothing,”‘ King said.

Kings colleague, Vladimir Duthiers, agreed: ‘I mean, Hayden Panettiere spent years publicly acknowledging her own failures, her own struggles. She did it with you in that interview.

‘She cannot respond now, and for her mother to use these days after Hayden’s death to just remind the world how much trauma she caused, it’s unseemly,’ he continued.

Panettiere, 36, died Sunday at an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina, after being found unresponsive by emergency responders following a suspected overdose that resulted in cardiac arrest.

On Wednesday, King recalled the Heroes star’s candidness about her strained relationship with her mother.

‘When she was here, Vlad, she told us it was a very complicated relationship with her mom and that it was still a work in progress,’ King said.

‘And you hear stuff like that and you realize it was still very much in progress. It makes me so sad that of the opportunity that you have after your daughter’s death, that that’s what you choose to leave us with.’

Kelly O’Grady agreed Vogel could have left out more in the statement.

‘If she had just stopped at, “she was amazing and talented.” We would all agree,’ she said.

The Daily Mail has contacted Vogel for comment but has not yet heard back.

Vogel broke her silence on her daughter’s shock death with NBC News.

‘I think Hayden was an amazingly talented person in so many departments and I think young people who grow up in the entertainment industry’ she said, ‘it is a struggle and it’s a very challenging industry and it’s not unusual for them to sadly find the wrong path.

‘I think it becomes very difficult to be true to yourself, and I think Hayden sadly lost her way, and I wish it were different. I wish she had stayed true to herself because she had many incredible attributes.’

Vogel also said she last spoke to her daughter in October, and said they had been ‘texting a bit since then, but not in some time.’

‘No-contact was a choice I made for very specific reasons and, you know, certainly not for lack of care, concern, love,’ Vogel added.

Panettiere previously said she got ‘brutally honest’ in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning about her mother pushing her too hard and doubling as her manager.

‘I was so scared of her that approaching her and being honest about my feelings [back then] was not going to get me any positive reaction. This is my way of doing it,’ she told Us Weekly in May.

Panettiere began acting as a child, appearing in soap operas, then gained wider recognition for her role in the 2000 sports drama Remember the Titans with Denzel Washington, and as the voice of Dot in Pixar’s 1998 film A Bug’s Life.

Panettiere later found fame playing cheerleader Claire Bennet in the superhero drama Heroes before starring as country singer Juliette Barnes for six seasons on Nashville.

She earned two Golden Globe nominations for best supporting actress on the show, while her singing produced 11 entries on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

Panettiere’s film credits include 2006’s Bring It On: All or Nothing, the comedy-drama film Raising Helen, and appearances in Scream 4 and Scream VI as Kirby Reed.

She had an 11-year-old daughter called Kaya following a life-threatening birth, but later gave full custody to her former fiancé, Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko.

Panettiere’s passing was announced Sunday by her father Skip Panettiere, who said in a statement: ‘It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden.

‘She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her – and to the millions who watched her onscreen. We ask for privacy as our family takes time to process this unimaginable loss.’

Authorities in Greenville, South Carolina subsequently said that officials responded to an apartment in the area after receiving a report of an ‘unresponsive female’ via a possible ‘drug overdose,’ subsequently determined to be Panettiere.

Officials, who attempted lifesaving measures prior to declaring the actress deceased, said that no signs of trauma or foul play were evident in their probe into the Panettiere’s death, which remains ongoing.