Amanda Bynes is speaking out about the death of fellow child star Hayden Panettiere after her heartbreaking passing at the age of 36.

The Nickelodeon alum, 40, shared a message on her LinkedIn account on Monday, August 17, regarding the Nashville star’s untimely death.

Alongside a set of screenshots of news articles about Panettiere’s life in the spotlight, Bynes wrote: “Life can hit you hard, and fast. What a horrible situation. 🙏🏼🕯️🕊️.”

In a 2013 interview with Glamour, the Remember the Titans actress got candid about growing up in Hollywood, saying: “I will never say that I’m perfect; I will never pretend to be perfect. That’s just unrealistic. You’re kind of unexpectedly put in this position of becoming a role model; that’s not something you choose.”

The profile also mentioned Panettiere’s contemporaries, such as the What a Girl Wants star and Lindsay Lohan. The Heroes star acknowledged the two women had their own personal battles in their careers, and that she understood why she was seen as “Miss Perfect” in comparison to her peers.

“I came up in the Messy Generation. The generation of the disaster child,” Panettiere noted at the time. “It’s not that I didn’t go to clubs, have my picture taken. I was 16 years old. I was experimenting just like any kid.”

“But I had friends and family around me to yank me back when I was heading in the wrong direction. … The thing that really saved me was that I still had that healthy fear of my parents — I still had a midnight curfew at 18!” she continued.

Throughout her career, Panettiere dealt with her own private struggles, such as suffering from postpartum depression after she gave birth to her daughter, Kaya, as well as dealing with alcohol and opioid addictions.

In a 2023 episode of Red Table Talk, the Golden Globe-nominated star shared she first encountered drugs at the age of 16.

“Somebody who was on my team that I was working with came to me, and it was before this red carpet and I had been doing Heroes and we did press all the time and I was a little low-energy,” Panettiere stated.

“[They said], ‘Here, take one of these, it’s a happy pill, it’ll give you energy.’ I didn’t think of it at the time as a bad thing or a drug,” she recalled.

Panettiere died on Sunday, August 16, in South Carolina after she was found unresponsive. She passed after suffering a suspected overdose and endured cardiac arrest.