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Kate Hudson Calls Estrangement From Her Dad A '41-Year-Old Issue'

Kate Hudson got candid about her decades-long estrangement from her birth father Bill Hudson during a TV appearance over the weekend.

The Hollywood actor and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were born to Bill and Goldie Hawn during the couple’s marriage, which lasted from 1976 to 1982.

After they separated, Kate and Oliver were raised by their mother and her longtime love, actor Kurt Russell.

They have been estranged from Bill from a number of years, with Kate opening up about the situation during an appearance on Sunday Today with Willie Geist.

Kate Hudson 
Kate Hudson

“I think that estrangement is unfortunately quite common and I think it’s important for people to talk about that,” the Almost Famous actor said.

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You “sometimes need a little bit of talk ― and humour ― to move us into places where we can heal some of the wounds that have affected us,” she added.

Though Kate said she had a “great family,” she said the estrangement from her dad is a “41-year-old issue” that deeply affects her and her brother.

“I have a great family, I have a beautiful mother. I have a stepfather who stepped in and played a huge, huge part in sharing what it is to have a dependable father figure in our life,” she said.

“But it doesn’t take away from the fact that we didn’t know our dad. And people sometimes just need to hear that they’re not alone in that.”

Kate and her brother recently opened up about their shared struggles during an episode of the podcast they host together, aptly titled Sibling Revelry.

She told her brother she’d been thinking a lot about their father and connecting with their other siblings

“I’ve been thinking about our sisters that we don’t spend any time with and our brother — brothers. We’ve got four siblings we don’t spend any time with,” she said. “I just had this moment of like, it would be nice to connect a little bit, especially with my sisters.

“Especially because [on the podcast] we’ve been talking so much about...

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