Post by deeconsistent on Jun 28, 2015 22:14:25 GMT -4
I know someone who knew the family back in the day and there was a lot of parental alienation brainwashing going via Goldie. Hudson has been a very involved and present father with his other three children so I tend to believe what I was told. Ehhh, who knows tho, I could be very wrong so need to debate. No one really knows any of the intimate details other than those immediate family members involved.
One of the links Spinderella posted upthread is an interview from The Daily Mail in which he says this:
‘I was selfish,’ he says, shaking his head with regret.
‘I was in a band and was often on the road for months at a time. I began having issues with Goldie over how much time I could see Kate, and after one row too many I just said, “Fine, do what you want. My door is always open, Kate knows that.”
‘I didn’t fight for my visitation rights. I had another family. Without realising it I saw less and less of Kate and Oliver until eventually I wasn’t seeing them at all.
‘I was so wrapped up in my own world that my kids from my first marriage suffered. It’s a regret I shall take to my grave.’
It is this period – from the age of 13 to 18 – which Kate calls the time in which her father ‘abandoned’ her. In numerous interviews she refers to Kurt Russell as ‘my real dad’ and is scathing about Bill for not being more involved in her upbringing.
It Is a charge he readily admits to. ‘If I could have my time over again I would fight to see Kate,’ he says, tears filling his eyes. ‘But she was a difficult teenager and Goldie and I were rowing and it was easier for me to let things slide. I bitterly regret the hurt that caused Kate.
‘I was in a band and was often on the road for months at a time. I began having issues with Goldie over how much time I could see Kate, and after one row too many I just said, “Fine, do what you want. My door is always open, Kate knows that.”
‘I didn’t fight for my visitation rights. I had another family. Without realising it I saw less and less of Kate and Oliver until eventually I wasn’t seeing them at all.
‘I was so wrapped up in my own world that my kids from my first marriage suffered. It’s a regret I shall take to my grave.’
It is this period – from the age of 13 to 18 – which Kate calls the time in which her father ‘abandoned’ her. In numerous interviews she refers to Kurt Russell as ‘my real dad’ and is scathing about Bill for not being more involved in her upbringing.
It Is a charge he readily admits to. ‘If I could have my time over again I would fight to see Kate,’ he says, tears filling his eyes. ‘But she was a difficult teenager and Goldie and I were rowing and it was easier for me to let things slide. I bitterly regret the hurt that caused Kate.
On one hand, he clearly isn't defending himself as a father. On the other, I am of the opinion that the Mail regularly makes up quotes for their interviews.