I have no expectations. I just want him to be happy

Published article April 29, 2024

Actress Kate Hudson is preparing for the release of her first music album, and in this context she has made shy revelations about the relationship she has today with her biological but estranged father, musician Bill Hudson. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Kate, for whom the actor Kurt Russell was the father figure in her life, confessed that the situation with Bill is starting to relax, but that she has no expectations.

After nearly a lifetime of not speaking, Kate Hudson is much more open today about a possible reconciliation with her father, Bill Hudson. The Oscar-nominated actress revealed that they are still not close, but hinted that there could be some “thaw” in their rocky history.

“I don’t really have one,” explained the “Almost Famous” star when asked about her relationship with her father, hinting that there is a glimmer of hope: “It’s heating up … with everything going on. But it will be what it will be, you know. I have no expectations of my father… I just want him to be happy.”

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Kate was just 18 months old when her mother, Oscar-winning actress Goldie Hawn, separated from her father in 1980. Shortly after their divorce was finalized two years later in 1982, Hawn began dating actor Kurt Russell, who finally gave Kate and her older brother Oliver the father figure they needed, the man they could rely on every day.

The two brothers ended up being raised in Snowmass, Colorado and the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California by Goldie and Russell, along with Kurt’s son, Boston, and later Kurt and Goldie’s son, Wyatt.

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In 2015, Oliver posted a less than flattering comment about Bill on Instagram on Father’s Day.

“Happy Abandonment Day…”, he wrote in a play on words alongside a childhood photo of himself, Kate and Bill.

For her part, Kate published on the same social network an image in which she appeared with Kurt: “Dad, I just… Thank you. Happy Father’s Day. I love you to the moon and back”.

In response, Bill Hudson said in an interview with the DailyMail: “I had five children, but now I consider myself the father of three children. I no longer recognize Oliver and Kate as mine. I would ask them to stop using the Hudson name.” the musician, best known for his 1970s group The Hudson Brothers, said at the time.

The 74-year-old Portland native added: “They are no longer part of my life. Oliver’s Instagram post was a malicious, vicious, premeditated attack. He is dead to me now. So does Kate. I mourn their loss, though they still walk this earth.”

Bill Hudson has accused his ex-wife Goldie Hawn of “deliberately alienating” him from their children.

Kate Hudson: It must be painful, so I forgive him

But in an interview on The Howard Stern Show in 2016, the “Glass Onion” actress claimed that her mother “never spoke ill” of Bill and that even as a child she was told that their father’s choice to leave the family had nothing to do with her and Oliver.

Despite their fractured relationship, Kate has empathy for her biological father.

“I recognize that whatever these issues are, they are something that he has to live with and it has to be painful, so I forgive him,” Kate said, before confessing that over the years any pain that tried her had been somewhat tempered by having Russell by her side.

“Kurt’s not a perfect man, no one is, but the confidence I got from him, the reassurance that I could depend on him … was just priceless to me,” admitted the “Bride Wars” star.

Kate and Oliver have two sisters and a brother from their biological father: Emily (42), Zachery (38) and Lalania (18).

The actress is currently promoting her debut album ‘Glorious’ which is set to drop on May 17.

She has already released three singles from this material: Talk About Love, Live Forever and Gonna Find Out.