From 1976 to 1982, the Oscar winner Goldie Hawn She was dating musician Bill Hudson, part of that time as a married couple, even though she had just divorced Gus Trikonis, whom she had been with for seven years. With her second husband, there was a difference, as she had two children, both actors: Oliver Hudson, born that same 1976, and Kate Hudson, who came into the world three years later.
However, the one who really raised and acted as a father to the little ones was the next partner of Goldie Hawn, the also interpreter. Kurt Russell, who he started dating in 1983 and who remains by his side even though they decided that they would never cross the altar. Bill practically ignored his children and left.
The relationship between Oliver and Kate Hudson with their biological father, in fact, has been very strained throughout all this time and nine years ago, in 2015, Oliver He didn’t hesitate to wish Bill a “Happy Abandonment Day” on Father’s Day. But now he wanted to share the reason why neither he nor his sister accepted Kurt Russell’s offer to legally adopt them.
On his podcast Sibling RevelryOliver has spoken with the mother of Miley CyrusTish, and with the artist’s sister, Brandi, who however is not the daughter of Miley’s father, Billy Ray Cyrus. In his house, however, yes she was adopted for this when Tish and Billy Ray were married.
Speaking specifically about adoptive and biological parents, Oliver, 48, asked Brandi, 37, how she felt about adoption, giving context to the question with her own experience. “I only say this because my father… Well, let’s say he stayed for a while, but then he left. And now we have a good relationship, but it has taken us many, many, many years (to achieve it),” he declared.
And then you explained the context of your question. “Kurt came into my life when I was about five or six years old and he basically raised me. I mean, I am the man I am today because of him, okay?” he said, pointing out: “But there was a at which point he asked both Kate and me, if we wanted to be adopted by him, and we said no.
“It’s not that we were, how to put it, very aware of what that meant,” he recalled, “but then we were between six and 12 years old or something like that, I don’t remember the age, and for us it was simple. We said: ‘Let’s see, we don’t need it. “Love is already there.” Even so, he has acknowledged that it was difficult to accept that he did not grow up with his biological father.
“One thing happens, when you don’t have your biological (father) around, and it is very difficult to replace him, no matter what happens,” he added, “because with Kurt paternal love was present. And there is no doubt that he is my father. I call him ‘Pa’. But there was always, not like something was missing, but there was that other part.”
Despite everything, at the beginning of 2024 Oliver acknowledged that in recent times his relationship with his biological father, Bill Hudson, has improved a lot.