Hawn's Ex-Husband Planning Tell-All Book
Bill Hudson — musician, former member of the Hudson Brothers, and the ex-husband of Goldie Hawn — was preparing a tell-all memoir about the famous family he had become estranged from. Hawn and Hudson married in 1976, had two children, Kate and Oliver Hudson, and divorced in 1980. Kate was barely a toddler; she was raised largely by Hawn's longtime partner Kurt Russell.
By January 2011, Hudson had spent years with little contact with his children, a situation he attributed to Hawn limiting his access — a claim the other side of the family disputed. He was now shopping a memoir titled So You Are a Star, which his agent described as explosive but motivated, in his telling, by a desire to reconnect with his children. The reporting, via the New York Post's Page Six, quoted Hudson pushing back hard on the family narrative: he denied abandoning his children, and accused Kate of using the abandonment story to furnish herself with a Hollywood-friendly tragedy.
The book did come out later in 2011 as So You Are a Star: Coming Home to Yourself — but if Hudson hoped it would bring his children closer, the public evidence was thin. Family estrangements, it turns out, are not solved by publishing.
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