Oliver Hudson spilled the beans on his “Sibling Revelry” podcast—which he co-hosts with his sister Kate Hudson — about how a Hoffman Process course unlocked some inner childhood trauma attributed to his mother, Goldie Hawn.
Founded in 1967, the Hoffman Process is “a week-long residential and personal-growth retreat that helps participants identify negative behaviors, moods, and ways of thinking that developed unconsciously and were conditioned in childhood.”
Hawn Just “Wasn’t There” Sometimes, Hudson Says
“My mother was the one that I had almost the most trauma about, interestingly enough, because she was my primary caregiver and I was with her all of the time, so I felt unprotected at times,” Hudson said on the podcast.
The Nashville star described Hawn as an “amazing mother,” but found it difficult to work around her busy schedule and some of the choices she made in his youth.
“She would be working. She had new boyfriends that I didn’t really like,” he elaborated.
“This is my own perception as a child who didn’t have a dad and needed her to be there. And she just wasn’t [there] sometimes and she came out far more than even my dad who wasn’t there.”
Goldie Hawn was the primary caregiver of both Oliver and Kate following her divorce from Bill Hudson in 1980. Three years after calling it quits with Bill, Goldie met Kurt Russel, and started dating him on Valentine’s Day in 1983. The pair have been together ever since and even share a son together, Wyatt, born in 1986.
Wyatt went on to become an ice hockey player and followed in the footsteps of his parents to pursue a career in acting. His most prominent role came as John Walker / U.S. Agent in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. More recently, he appeared in the horror short film adaptation Night Swim, directed by Bryce McGuire.
Since being with Russell, Goldie has made it perfectly clear that she has no plans to marry Kurt. She explained that she”would have been long divorced if [she’d] been married,” and that she and Russell do not feel that marriage “cements” a relationship.
