Hayden Panettiere’s estranged mother, Lesley Vogel, has hit back at Gayle King after the CBS Mornings host criticized her response to her daughter’s death.

The Heroes star died August 16 after being found in cardiac arrest at a Greenville, South Carolina, apartment. She was 36.

“I was very, very hurt and deeply disappointed in the lack of professionalism, the lack of compassion in slamming someone who’s lost two children, without even a modicum of consideration,” Vogel told the Daily Mail about King’s criticism of her.

“No one reached out to me before,” she added. “It’s shameful. It’s unconscionable to me.”

The Independent has contacted King’s representatives for comment.

After Panettiere’s death, Vogel told 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 — 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,” Vogel continued. “I wish she had stayed true to herself because she had many incredible attributes.”

She concluded: “I just feel that she’s with her brother and they’re at peace.” Panettiere’s younger brother Jansen died from an enlarged heart in 2023 at the age of 28.

On CBS Mornings, King lashed out at Vogel’s statement.

“You know, guys, you read this and all I can think is, ‘Thanks, Mom, for nothing,’” she said during the broadcast.

“It makes me so sad of the opportunity that you have after your daughter’s death that that’s what you choose to leave us with,” King said.

The Nashville star spoke openly about her strained relationship with her mother, who was her manager during her rise to fame as a child star. The two were estranged at the time of Panettiere’s death, and the actor had told podcaster Jay Shetty in May that Vogel “didn’t care to have a relationship with me.”

Vogel served as Panettiere’s manager from the time she was just an infant.

The actor opened up about her relationship with her mother in an interview with The Independent in May.

“She’s a very complex person,” Panettiere said. “I don’t want to offend anybody, or drag anybody, or hurt anyone’s feelings. But I knew that if I wasn’t honest about my relationship with her, I wouldn’t be being honest at all. She’s a huge part of the person I am today.”

Panettiere cut professional ties with Vogel at the age of 19, while working on Heroes. In her memoir, released earlier this year, she said she asked Vogel to meet her in her trailer and begged her to just be her mother.

“All I wanted was a dynamic that didn’t involve contracts, producers, boho tops, or drinking wine at industry parties,” she wrote.

Vogel, Panettiere claimed, “picked up her purse, clenched her jaw, and looked straight at me. ‘You owe me,’ she answered. Then she turned around and walked out of my trailer ... I knew I’d done the right thing, but I sensed something in me had died.”