Hayden Panettiere says filming 'Nashville' was “traumatizing” as the writers drew on her real-life experiences with alcoholism for storylines:
“Straight from the beginning, it was like, I’m dating a football player, and then Juliette dates a football player. And then they turned her into an alcoholic. Then they turned to her leaving her daughter and going to this crazy place in Europe, and it was very obvious…They weren’t doing their homework. They weren’t creating new storylines. They were just looking at my life and going, ‘Oh, let’s just take what she’s going through and put our little spin on it.’ And then, ta-da! It’s done and done. I was like, tear central. I don't even think on a soap opera that I cried as much as I did on Nashville.”
That time Archie threw Betty a surprise party celebrating her becoming an agent only a few hours after he found out she missed her graduation. THEY WEREN’T EVEN DATING YET!