Oliver Hudson is clarifying comments he made last week about the “childhood trauma” he faced regarding his mother Goldie Hawn.
The 47-year-old actor joined sister Kate Hudson on his podcast Sibling Revelry last week, where he spoke about the “trauma” he faced regarding his mother.
“My mother was the one who almost left me with the most trauma, interestingly enough, because she was my primary caregiver and I was with her all the time, so I felt unprotected at times,” Oliver said.
Last week he added: ‘She would work. She had new boyfriends that I didn’t really like,” he continued, emphasizing that his mother was just “living her life” and describing her as “a great mother.”
“This is my own perception as a child who had no father and needed her,” he clarified.
Oliver Hudson clarifies comments he made last week about the ‘childhood trauma’ he faced regarding his mother Goldie Hawn
The 47-year-old actor was on his podcast Sibling Revelry with sister Kate Hudson last week, where he mentioned the “trauma” he encountered regarding his mother
Last week he added: ‘She would work. She had new boyfriends that I didn’t really like,” he continued, emphasizing that his mother was just “living her life” and describing her as “a great mother.”
“And sometimes she just wasn’t there and she came out a lot more than even my dad who wasn’t there.”
Hudson returned on Tuesday’s episode to clarify “offhand comments” he made that “were turned into clickbait,” according to the episode description.
“If you listen to the whole thing, it’s more about my child’s feelings at that moment than it is about me and how I feel about my mother as a parent,” Oliver said.
He added that he was “afraid to talk about it to inflame this further,” he insisted, “no trauma” from his mother.
‘I don’t know who I would be without my mother. I can’t even fathom it,” Hudson emphasized in the podcast.
“The love that I have for her and the respect and reverence that I have for her is beyond anything,” he added.
The actor and his sister Kate Hudson, 44, were raised primarily alone by the First Wives Club actress after she split from their biological father Bill in 1980.
Goldie would meet Kurt Russell, his long-time partner, in 1983, when Oliver was seven years old.
Hudson returned on Tuesday’s episode to clarify the “casual comments” he made that “were turned into clickbait,” according to the episode’s description
After Goldie and Bill’s divorce, there was a prolonged period of tension in the relationship between Bill, Oliver and Kate.
However, according to the actor, the Hoffman Institute course helped Oliver understand both Bill and Goldie.
“The forgiveness and the compassion that you feel for them at the end of this process is incredible because then you realize that they’re just repeating the ship that they went through, you know, with their parents,” he explained on his podcast.
‘My father’s forgiveness was enormous, because his father left him when he was five years old in the middle of the night. You know, my dad didn’t do exactly that, but essentially he bailed, you know, so I can’t always help myself when I’m parenting and thinking, ‘What am I pushing (my kids) on?’