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Oliver Hudson opens up about childhood with mother Goldie Hawn.
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Goldie Hawn with children Oliver and Kate Hudson, as well as son Wyat Russell.
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Goldie Hawn.
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Actor Oliver Hudson, 47, has begun researching his childhood trauma.
When he decided to start digging into his past, he expected his absentee father Bill to have the biggest impact on his mental health – but that’s not the case.
In the “Sibling Rivalry” podcast, Hudson says that his mother, the actress icon Goldie Hawn, 78, played a big role in his childhood trauma.
– My mother was the one from whom I got the most trauma, interestingly enough, because she was my primary caregiver and I was with her all the time, so I felt insecure sometimes, says the son in the podcast.
Goldie Hawn broke through as an actress back in 1967 and has since received two Oscar statuettes – one in 1970 for “Best Supporting Actress” for the film “Cactus Flower” and one in 1981 for “Best Actress” for the film “The Girl Who Knew Too Much”.
– She could work. She had new boyfriends that I didn’t like, Hudson clarifies and continues:
– This is my own opinion as a child who had no father and needed her there. And she just wasn’t sometimes.
The siblings’ strained relationship with the father
Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, father of siblings Oliver and Kate Hudson, 44, separated in 1980. After that, it was mainly the mother who took care of the children, resulting in a strained relationship between the siblings and their father.
In 1983, Goldie Hawn met her current partner, Kurt Russel. The son was then seven years old.
Oliver Hudson’s research into his childhood trauma has given him more understanding of himself and his parents.
– The forgiveness and compassion that you feel for them at the end of this process is incredible because then you realize that they were just repeating what they went through, you know, with their parents, he says in his podcast.
