Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have enjoyed 43 years together.
In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, the 75-year-old actor spoke about the early days of his relationship with Horn, since they first met when he was 15 years old on the set of “The One and Only True Original Family Band” in 1967. “She was a 21-year-old dancer.”
“Goldie and I met again in 1983 while making the movie Swing Shift,” he said. “By that time, we had both gone through divorces, and she had two young children, Oliver and Kate, and I had one child, Boston. We hit it off and agreed, ‘Let’s have fun until we get divorced.’ It’s been 43 years.”
Despite never having been married, the two merged their families and built a life together over the past 40 years, raising their children together and welcoming their son, Wyatt, together in July 1986.
Today, Russell says he and Horne “split their time between homes in L.A., Palm Desert, California, Old Snowmass, Colorado, and New York,” with the Old Snowmass home being their favorite.
“It’s a big, beautiful log cabin lodge on a ranch that we moved to a little over 40 years ago,” Russell said. “Goldie and I share a passion for log homes. Starting with our house in Maine, I never let it get out of my system.”
Horn spoke out about their decision not to get married in September 2007, telling Women’s Day that the two “were doing perfectly fine without getting married.”
He added, “I already feel committed,” and said that as long as her “mental state is committed, honest, caring, and loving,” the two are “going well.”
“We’re both financially independent and independently wealthy. We’ve raised our kids well. They’re beautiful people. We’ve had great jobs there, and we didn’t need to get married for that. I like waking up every day and seeing him there and knowing I have a choice. There’s really no reason to get married.”
Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson were 3 and 5 when Russell was born. The two have publicly stated that they adore Russell as a father figure, and have revealed that they call him “Pa.”
On a November 2024 episode of the Sibling Revelry podcast, Oliver credited Russell as the man who “raised me,” adding, “I’m the person I am today because of him.”
“There was a moment where he asked us, me and Kate, if we wanted to adopt, and we said no. We probably didn’t really know what that meant. … We just said, ‘Well, we don’t need that. Love is right around the corner.'”
“At the same time, when you don’t have a biological father, it’s hard to replace him no matter what. There was love in Kurt, that’s for sure. He’s my father. I call him Pa. But it wasn’t like I was missing something, there was always something. But it was always like, ‘Wow, but there’s that side of it too.’
During the episode, Oliver also admitted that he had a good relationship with his biological father, Bill Hudson, at that point, saying, “It took a long, long, long, long time.”
