🚨 HAYDEN PANETTIERE UPDATE: ONE PILL — AND A DEVASTATING NEW TWIST

New details have emerged in the investigation into the death of actress Hayden Panettiere — and investigators are now reportedly focused on one pill.

According to law-enforcement sources cited in a new report, Panettiere may have taken a single oxycodone pill on the morning of her death that was believed to have been laced with fentanyl.

She was only 36.

Panettiere was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest at a residence in Greenville, South Carolina, on August 16.

Emergency responders rushed to the scene and attempted to revive her, but she was pronounced dead.

Now, the investigation is moving in a new direction.

Authorities are reportedly trying to determine where that pill came from — and who supplied it.

Sources say Panettiere had a longtime drug dealer in Los Angeles who allegedly provided black-market prescription drugs, including oxycodone.

Investigators believe she obtained drugs before traveling from Los Angeles to South Carolina.

The DEA has now become involved as authorities work to trace the suspected fatal pill back to its source.

But there is still one critical piece missing.

The official toxicology results.

Authorities have not yet publicly finalized Panettiere’s exact cause of death, meaning the fentanyl theory remains a reported investigative finding rather than a confirmed medical conclusion.

Her autopsy reportedly found no trauma that contributed to her death.

And investigators have so far reported no signs of foul play.

That makes the question surrounding the pill even more important.

Was it knowingly taken?

Or did Hayden believe she was taking something completely different?

Panettiere had spent years speaking publicly about addiction and recovery. Just months before her death, she had opened up about those struggles in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning.

Now, investigators are looking beyond the actress herself — and to