Kate Hudson reveals she initially ‘rejected’ music career dream due to ‘daddy issues’ with estranged father Bill Hudson – as actress prepares to release debut album
Kate Hudson has revealed she initially rejected her plans to pursue a career in music due to her ‘daddy issues’ with estranged father and musician Bill Hudson.
The Almost Famous star, 43, – who is planning her wedding to her fiancé Danny Fujikawa – said she feared being ‘destroyed’ if she put her music into the world during a candid chat on Tuesday’s episode of the Table for Two podcast.
She said; ‘Earlier on in my career, I thought I would definitely do music, but then Almost Famous happened,’ Hudson said, referring to her Oscar-nominated breakthrough role.
‘But later on I kind of rejected it because I was like, “You know what?” As you do when you’re dealing with daddy issues,’ she continued. ‘I don’t want to connect to that part because that’s my dad. That’s all dad.
‘If I put that out in the world and people didn’t like it, it would destroy me.’
Kate’s father was a member of the band The Hudson Brothers with his brothers Brett and Mark. The band were teen idols in the 1970s, toured with the Osmonds and David Cassidy and had their own half-hour comedy series from 1974 to 1975 called The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show.
Bill, 73, and Goldie Hawn, 77, married in 1976 and welcomed Oliver Hudson, that same year. Kate was born in 1979 and the parents divorced in 1980.
Kate and her brother Oliver, 45, were raised by Goldie and her longtime partner Kurt Russell. Both siblings have often said they consider the Tombstone star their dad.
The Bride Wars star explained that her perspective on making her own music changed as she eventually reconciled with her estranged father.
‘I was raised by this incredible father,’ she said, referring to Russell. ‘And I love my real father too. I’ve been able to heal that,’ she added.
The Glass Onion star initially revealed her plans to release an album last December during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
‘I’ve been making a record for like a year,’ Kate said at the time. ‘Every time you’re doing interviews, people are like ‘Do you have any regrets?’ And I’m like, “I’m early 40s, not yet.”‘
And the Something Borrowed star admitted she’s been writing music since she was a teenager.
‘I’ve been writing music since I was 19, and I’ve never shared it, and so I thought that would be one of my great regrets,” the mom of three said. “I have no expectations. I just want to put a record out, and so I’m doing it, and I’m really excited.
‘I’m really excited because I just realized that I just have to do it,’ Kate said on the podcast. ‘No expectations about what it needs to be. It just needed to come out. All of it needed to come out.’
The Fabletics spokesperson is working on the album with her fiancé Danny Fujikawa and former 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry. Kate revealed that they wrote 26 songs in two months. ‘It was so prolific,’ she said.
‘We’re like 70, I would say 70% there,’ she explained. ‘I mean, pretty soon we’re going to be like 90% there.’
And in the meantime, she has a wedding to plan. She also revealed on the podcast that she’d ideally like to have a destination wedding when she and Fukikawa walk down the aisle.
‘It’ll totally be a destination wedding,’ the mom of three said. ‘It’ll be such an adventure that people will really want to have to come to show up. To me, those are always the most fun weddings. Like, if you really want to be there, you’ll be there.
‘If someone’s like, “I can’t really be there,” then I don’t want you there. That’s all I got right now. That’s all I got for the wedding,’ she joked.
