"HEROES" HOTTIE FLIES OFF THE HANDLE

HAYDEN PANETTIERE’s lucky she didn’t get skinned alive for lashing out at a female fan who’d stopped her for an autograph, pointing at her smooth, shiny black coat and barking: “Is that coat made out of BABY SEALS?”

Shocked, the woman opened her mouth to reply, but the “Heroes” cupcake cut her off, ranting: “I can’t believe you’d wear a baby seal-skin coat! Do you know how they kill them? They CLUB THEM TO DEATH!”

Mortified, the woman blurted: “It’s not real…I swear!”

Shucking off the coat, she showed hysterical Hayden the label – which clearly stated that the slick faux-skin was made of synthetic material.

“I’d never support killing anything,” the distraught woman cried.

Suddenly horrified at her horribleness, Hayden turned red and apologized, graciously offering to grant the autograph, but the shaken lady told her ex-Heroine, “Just forget it!”…and stalked off angrily.