Kate Hudson has revealed that she initially turned down her plans to pursue a career in music due to her ‘dad issues’ with father and musician Bill Hudson.
The Almost Famous star, 43, who is planning her wedding to fiance Danny Fujikawa, said she feared she would be “destroyed” if she put her music out into the world during a candid conversation on Tuesday’s episode of the Table for Two podcast.
She said; “Early in my career, I thought I would definitely make music, but then Almost Famous happened,” Hudson said, referring to her breakout Oscar-nominated role.
‘But later I turned it down because I was like, “You know what?” Like you do when you’re dealing with daddy issues,” she continued. ‘I don’t want to connect to that part because that’s my dad. That’s all dad.
“If I expose that to the world and people don’t like it, it would destroy me.”
Songbird: Kate Hudson has revealed that she initially turned down her plans to pursue a career in music due to her ‘father issues’ with father and musician Bill Hudson.
Flashback photo: Kate’s brother Oliver Hudson, 45, shared a flashback snapshot of the siblings with their biological father on Instagram
Kate’s father was a member of the band The Hudson Brothers with her brothers Brett and Mark. The band were teen idols in the 1970s, touring with the Osmonds and David Cassidy and having their own half-hour comedy series from 1974 to 1975 called The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show.
Bill, 73, and Goldie Hawn, 77, were married in 1976 and welcomed Oliver Hudson that same year. Kate was born in 1979 and the parents divorced in 1980.
Kate and her brother Oliver, 45, were raised by Goldie and her longtime partner Kurt Russell. Both brothers have often said that they consider the Tombstone star to be their father.
The Bride Wars star explained that her perspective on making her own music changed when she finally reconciled with her estranged father.
“I was raised by this amazing dad,” she said, referring to Russell. And I also love my real father. I’ve been able to cure that,’ she added.
The Glass Onion star initially revealed his plans to release an album last December during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
“I’ve been making a record for a year,” Kate said at the time. ‘Every time you do interviews, people say ‘Do you have any regrets?’ And I’m like, “I’m in my early 40s, not yet.”
And the Something Borrowed star admitted that she’s been writing music since she was a teenager.
Collaboration: He is working with 4 Non Blondes singer-songwriter Linda Perry on the album.
“I’ve been writing music since I was 19 years old and I’ve never shared it, so I thought it would be one of my biggest regrets,” said the mother of three. “I have no expectations. I just want to put out a record, and I’m doing it, and I’m very excited.
“I’m so excited because I just realized that I have to do it,” Kate said on the podcast. ‘There are no expectations about what has to be. I just needed to get out. All of that had to come out.
The Fabletics spokesperson is working on the album with her fiance Danny Fujikawa and former 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry. Kate revealed that they wrote 26 songs in two months. “He was so prolific,” she said.
“We are like 70, I would say 70% there,” he explained. “I mean, pretty soon we’ll be like 90% there.”
And meanwhile, she has a wedding to plan. She also revealed on the podcast that she would ideally like to have a destination wedding when she and Fukikawa walk down the aisle.
“It will totally be a destination wedding,” said the mother of three. ‘It will be such an adventure that people will really want to have to come and perform. For me, those are always the most fun weddings. Like, if you really want to be there, you’ll be there.
If someone says, “I really can’t be there,” then I don’t want you there. That’s all I have now. That’s all I have for the wedding,’ she joked.