Kate Hudson learned a thing or two about being a parent thanks to her three children and their parents.
She recently opened up about her complex family dynamics, including her own mother, Goldie Hawn, in a conversation with Willie Geist from TODAY, broadcast on Sunday.
“I have several parents, I have children everywhere,” she said, laughing.
The “How to lose a guy in 10 days” star, 41, shares son Ryder, 17, with ex-husband Chris Robinson, and son Bingham, 9, with ex-fiancé Matt Bellamy. She also welcomed a daughter, Rani Rose, with her boyfriend Danny Fujikawa in 2018.
“The only expectations that I really have and that are very high in my life are with my kids and family stuff,” she continued to Willie. “Other than that, it’s like, I just let it go … I work my a– off, and then I leave, and I hope for the best.”
But Hudson also found that staying at home with his family due to the COVID-19 epidemic is sometimes challenging.
“I want to be, like, ‘Yes, it’s so good and … we’re finding out’, but the reality is that there are days that are great, and there are days when I have to remember to be grateful,” explained the co-founder of Fabletics. “I never thought of a million years that I would spend a year in one place. And when you have so many children, sometimes you have those moments when you’re hiding in the bathroom and you say, ‘Please, please, get me out of here ! ‘”
“I just remember that there are a lot of people out there who have lost their loved ones, and we just have to stay here for a while,” she added.
Although Hudson has a close relationship with her own children, she grew up without meeting her own father, musician and actor Bill Hudson. She and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised by Hawn and his longtime partner, Kurt Russell.
“I think this departure is, unfortunately, quite common,” she told Willie. “I think it’s important for people to talk about it. If they can’t reconnect or if it’s too challenging, that’s okay, right?
“It’s a 41-year-old problem,” she continued, referring to her own father. “I have a great family. I have a beautiful mother. I have a stepfather who came on the scene and played a huge role, sharing what it is like to have a trusted father figure in our life. But that does not detract from the fact that we did not know our father.
“I think as I kind of went through this process … I kind of look at my dad and I’m like, ‘You know, love never went anywhere. It’s always been there, no matter what those complications have been. . And the cure is … personal, and I think people sometimes just need to hear that they are not alone in this. “
Hudson frequently reflects on these issues in her podcast, “Sibling Revelry”, which she presents with her brother Oliver Hudson. But long before she became a prominent podcaster, she had her first major success with the 2000 cult classic “Almost Famous”.
“It was definitely a whirlwind,” she recalled. “It was almost as if that year of my life was – people asked me all the time, ‘How do I feel? How I feel?’ Everything was happening so fast at that moment … and I didn’t even have time to digest any of it. And then my life, it was just work, work, work. “
“From the outside, it may not have seemed as grounded as it really was,” she continued. “But yes, I mean, cannon fire is basically what it was.”
About 20 years later, the Golden Globe winner will star in the next film “Music”, which opens in February and tells the story of a drug dealer, played by Hudson, who becomes the caregiver of his teenage half-sister, who has autism. It is directed by pop musician Sia.
“We call that a musical experience,” said Hudson. “I think it’s a work of art. I mean, that was Sia’s intention. Her intention was to make a film about love, about finding love, about feeling worthy of love.”
She is now working on the filming of the second season of the Apple TV + drama “Truth Be Told” with Oscar winner Octavia Spencer, and coronavirus security protocols are “very strict”, including masks and face shields, she said. she.
“I was looking at us the other day with all of our … connected, and I thought, ‘God, we’re crazy’,” she joked. “Like, we are recording a program in the middle of a pandemic and very happy to be working.”