You Don’t Have to Like Your Relatives

Kate Hudson’s father is releasing a book this fall titled So You Are A Star: Coming to Terms with Fame, Infatuation, and Family. The book details his four-year marriage to Kate’s mother Goldie Hawn in the late 1970s. Goldie, as you probably know, has been in a long-term relationship with the actor Kurt Russell for many years and basically raised Goldie’s two children as his own and they lovingly refer to him as their dad. Bill Hudson’s tell-all reportedly covers what he calls parental alienation on the part of his ex-wife. He also accuses Kate of not visiting or calling her dying grandma, who is battling Alzheimer’s disease. “Kate doesn’t have to talk to me and she doesn’t have to give her a dime of her millions. All I want is for her to call and say, ‘Hi grandma’, before it’s too late,” Bill said. “I love Kate, but… She has done stuff, which is just awful. She is a spoiled brat in my eyes and at the end of the day, she should meet her little sister. I should meet my grandchild and she should help her grandmother.” “His book also talks about how parents can often become alienated from their children when they don’t have primary custody.”

When I was in college I got a call from one of my mom’s nephews asking if his “special” class could swing by my dorm as part of their field trip. I had enough problems back then trying to manage a full course load, a full time job, an internship, and beer/pizza weight gain. The last thing I needed was some relative I never spoke to with a possible mental disorder chatting it up with the nuns. As if that would really help my street cred. To this day I have to instruct my mother to never give any relatives my phone number. If I didn’t I would be getting calls from that cousin of hers who sells candles asking if I want any new wall sconces. Just because someone is related to you doesn’t mean you have to have a relationship. Seriously, just because we share a last name or the same grandparents doesn’t mean we should hang out and bowl or play cards. I don’t even have time for my real friends, the ones I actually like and find interesting.

I’d also like to address writing a book about your estranged child and chalking it up as the result of parental alienation. I know families can be complicated, but at some point you probably have to look inward and ask yourself why your child would rather call someone else dad. Right? Maybe he is upset because she keeps naming her kids after Kurt Russell? Somehow he thinks it would be respectful to carry on his name, even though they have no relationship? Makes sense.

If my dad wrote a book about me I imagine it would be titled “I Think Her Hair is Blonde” or “I’ve Been Told She Was Born in Pennsylvania”.

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