At a Glance
- Goldie Hawn credits “freedom” as the key to her 42-year partnership with Kurt Russell
- The couple never married and say their kids never cared about a wedding
- Hawn calls Russell “my sexual object” and praises his intelligence and parenting
- Why it matters: The actress offers a rare look inside one of Hollywood’s longest relationships
Goldie Hawn says the secret to her four-decade romance with Kurt Russell boils down to one word: freedom.
In an exclusive clip shared with News Of Los Angeles ahead of the Jan. 22 episode of The Dan Buettner Podcast, the 80-year-old Oscar winner explains how personal independence keeps their bond strong.
“I’m a Bird”
Hawn uses a bird metaphor to describe her need for space.
“I have a relationship with birds,” she tells host Dan Buettner. “I’m a bird. And you leave the cage door open, I may never fly out. But if you close that door, for my freedom and my independence, I would probably take all my feathers off.”
She calls this “a freedom of self” and says it prevents the couple from “melding into somebody else.”
No Wedding, No Problem
The pair began dating in 1983 and chose never to marry.
“We constantly got asked, ‘When are you going to get married? Why aren’t you married?'” Russell told Variety in 2023. “And we were like, ‘Why does anybody care about that?’ We’d asked our kids if they cared about it. They didn’t. We didn’t.”
Hawn echoes that stance in the podcast. “Even if we did get married, it wouldn’t make any difference because it’s 42 years now,” she says.
Why She Still Chooses Russell
Buettner asks why she keeps choosing Russell after all these years.
“Because I have respect for him because I think he’s an amazing person,” Hawn replies.
She adds:
- “I’m also very sexually attracted to him”
- “He’s my sexual object”
- “He’s so smart”
- “Such a great actor”
- “I find him incredibly handsome to this day”
The couple share four children: Kate and Oliver Hudson, and Boston and Wyatt Russell.
Family Life
Hawn praises Russell’s parenting skills.
“Kids love him. We’re an unbelievably happy family – most of the time,” she says. “There’s a cohesiveness. Why would I want anybody who is perfect? There is no such thing.”
Episode Release
The full interview drops Thursday, Jan. 22, at 10 a.m. PT on YouTube and podcast platforms. The episode is produced by Andrew Zimmern’s Intuitive Content and distributed by Lemonada Media.
