“I had a lot to drink, and I got physical with her,” he said in the TMZ interview.

According to court documents, Mr. Hickerson was also arrested in connection with an encounter in Los Angeles on May 2, 2019. Though the case file does not include a narrative of what transpired, documents identify a person or witness involved in the case as “Hayden P.” In her memoir, Ms. Panettiere said a neighbor called 911 after a brawl with Mr. Hickerson in which he pinned her down and punched her repeatedly.

Mr. Hickerson was initially charged with seven felony counts, including assault, injuring a girlfriend and dissuading a witness from prosecuting a crime, as well as misdemeanor battery. He eventually pleaded no contest to two felony counts of injuring Ms. Panettiere.

When Mr. Hickerson was serving his sentence, Ms. Panettiere, who also struggled with alcoholism, was in a facility trying to get sober. Records show that, after his release, Mr. Hickerson violated his probation in 2022 and was ordered not to drink alcohol or enter the Sunset Marquis, a hotel in West Hollywood, Calif.

On Aug. 1, 2022, Mr. Hickerson was sentenced to several years of formal probation. As a part of that probation, he was required to complete a yearlong domestic violence treatment program, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and complete dozens of anger-management sessions, according to court records. He has said that he is part of an Alcoholics Anonymous group led by the actor Shia LaBeouf.

The records also show that Mr. Hickerson has twice tried to get a judge to reduce his felony convictions to misdemeanors.

During the first attempt, in 2025, prosecutors told a judge that there were “numerous incidents of domestic violence,” according to the court records, and reminded the judge that Mr. Hickerson had previously been charged with trying to dissuade a witness.

The second attempt occurred last week, according to court papers. A judge denied the request.

Alain Delaquérière contributed research.