MY BEST YEAR EVER!
ooking far younger than her 71 years, Goldie Hawn posed as a bunny alongside her actress daughter, Kate Hudson, during an Easter Sunday message on Snapchat. “It’s a little pretty Mom bunny!” joked Kate as Goldie wrinkled her nose like a cute rabbit. Family time with Kate, 38, sons Oliver, 40, and Wyatt, 30, and her five grandchildren is just one of the many pleasures of Goldie’s life right now. “All my children are amazing and very, very talented,” gushes the actress, who has a lot of reasons to be grateful these days. In addition to her happy brood, the star — who is set to make a film comeback when Snatched premieres on May 12 — and her partner, Kurt Russell, are readying to move into their Pacific Palisades, Calif., dream house. Best of all, after 34 years together, they are still going strong.
“Relationships are hard,” insists Goldie, who endured two failed marriages before she and Kurt, 66, became a romantic item on the set of 1984’s Swing Shift. “It wasn’t one of those lust-at-first-sight things,” she confides. “I mean, we were very sexually attracted to each other, but I was at a stage of my life where I had finally accepted my little white picket fence dream was not going to work out. I wanted something that was going to be good for my life and my children. Kate was only 3 and Oliver was 6.” Watching Kurt around her kids made Goldie understand that this was the man she’d been waiting for. “I realized I loved the way he looked at my children. Frankly, that was it,” she confesses. “That’s what made me fall in love with him.”
The couple never legally tied the knot, yet they maintain one of Hollywood’s most stable relationships. “We looked at each other and were like, ‘Marriage — no way!’” recalls Goldie, who was financially burned in her divorces. “[Kurt and I said,] ‘What’s yours is yours, what’s mine is mine. We are going to do this thing separately, and we’re going to be together. We’re going to enjoy each other.’ ”
Outside of their home, the pair have also maintained separate careers and hobbies. In recent times, Kurt has dabbled in wine-making, while Goldie, who last appeared on-screen in 2002’s The Banger Sisters, took a long break from Hollywood to devote herself to the Hawn Foundation, which has taught more than 1 million children around the world the benefits of meditation. “When you’ve been working for 40 years at being funny, there comes a moment where you look at your life and say, ‘Who am I now, and where do I want to go?’” says Goldie, who was just 21 when she got her big break on TV’s Laugh-In. “That’s why I have developed and produced scripts for children that can go into schools. It was exciting to me. And now it is exciting to be back.”
Returning to comedy to play Amy Schumer’s mother in Snatched was an easy decision for Goldie. “There is a finite amount of life left,” she says. “I really wanted to go back to work and have some fun.” — Louise A. Barile
HAPPY WITH HER FAMILY AND LIFE WITH KURT RUSSELL, GOLDIE IS GETTING BACK TO THE BUSINESS OF BEING FUNNY “We raised three children together and had a great time doing it.”
— Goldie
HAPPILY UNWED