Kate Hudson thought of her extended family at the beginning of the new year.
In the Friday episode of her podcast “Sibling Revelry,” along with her older brother Oliver Hudson, 44, the 41-year-old actress spoke about estranged father Bill Hudson and “we should connect. little ”with their stepbrothers.
“Do you know what I’ve been thinking lately? “Dad,” Kate said.
“I was thinking – I was thinking a lot about my father. I thought of our sisters, with whom we don’t spend time, and our brother. Brothers. We have four brothers with whom we do not spend time “, she continued.
Bill, 71, was married to Kate and Oliver’s mother, Goldie Hawn, from 1976-1982. He later married actress Cindy Williams, with whom he has two children, daughter Emily and son Zachary. He also has a daughter, Lalania, from another relationship.
Hawn, 75, and Kurt Russell, 69, have been together since 1983 and have one son, 34-year-old Wyatt Russell. Kurt also has a 40-year-old son, Boston, with the former Hubley season.
“I was thinking about how everyone is getting older,” Kate said Friday. “I just had this moment too, it would be nice to connect a little, especially with my sisters.
“We talked so much about the relationship between the brothers and the troubled relationship,” she continued. “And we sit here as if we had the best family, we are so wonderful. And yet, we never acknowledge that we have four other brothers — four. So I thought a lot about Hudsoni. Thinking that it is important to reach all our brothers and maybe connect a little with them. “
In 2015, Oliver beat Bill in his Father’s Day Instagram post, writing: “Happy Abandonment Day … @KateHudson.” Bill later told the Daily Mail that he was severing ties with Oliver and Kate.
Oliver said he and his father reconnected after the infamous post, revealing to “Larry King Now” in 2018 that the two “shot some texts back and forth.”
In a 2016 interview on the Howard Stern Show, Kate said about Bill and the past: “I really recognize whatever these issues are, it’s just something he has to live with and that has to be painful for him, so forgive him. “