Hayden Panettiere: “I Always Knew I Was Different”

Hayden Panettiere poses in the new issue of Details, where she talks about being a paparazzi magnet, her high school “mean girls” days, and her defense mechanism.

On being “different”:

“It wasn’t like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out – in fact, I was like, ‘Oh thank God I’m not that.’”

On “mean girls” in school:

Hayden was punched in the face by a “very angry, very sad girl.” “I was tortured, emotionally tortured by these girls. Every time I came back from filming, it would be me trying to find my way back into the clique. And they weren’t having it.”

On handling the media:

“I learned the game. The more I react, the angrier I get, the more satisfaction they get. That’s exactly what they want.” [Photo: Matthias Vriens for DETAILS]