Oliver Hudson has opened up on how he made an eye-opening discovery about his childhood memories and why his mother Goldie Hawn was responsible for the ‘trauma’ he carries.
The 47-year-old recently completed a Hoffman Process course, which according to the Hoffmann Institute “teaches us how to release and resolve persistent negative behavioural patterns of feeling unloved and unlovable”.
Hudson, the older brother of Hollywood actress Kate Hudson, 44, wanted to understand why he felt traumatised from his childhood years – and he came to the realization that his mother,Goldie Hawn, had inadvertently played her part in it.
“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 his ‘Sibling Revelry’ podcast.
Hawn, now 78, was a TV star back in the 1970s and starred in the popular show ‘First Wives Club’. She shared Oliver and Kate with her second husband, Bill Hudson.
The difficult life of a celebrity’s child
Oliver has followed his mother into the world of showbusiness, starring in a number of renowned shows such as ‘Rules of Engagement’, ‘Nashville’ and ‘Scream Queens’.
That is despite the fact he knows how challenging it was to be a child of a famous celebrity, claiming that his “amazing mother” was too busy in personal and work life to be there for her children.
“She would be working. She had new boyfriends that I didn’t really like,” he explained, although he stressed that his mom was only “living her life.”
“This is my own perception as a child who didn’t have a dad and needed her to be there,” he added. “She just wasn’t [there] sometimes and she came out far more than even my dad who wasn’t there.”
Following her divorce from Bill, Hawn was able to do motherhood all over again after meeting her current partner Kurt Russell in 1983. The couple has been together ever since and the Oscar-winning actress welcomed their son, former ice hockey player Wyatt Russell, 37.