Overview

• At the Newport Beach TV Fest, Hudson revealed she was told as a teenager to legally emancipate from her parents to qualify for adult acting roles.
• Goldie Hawn refused to allow the emancipation, telling her daughter that the idea was “never happening.”
• Shortly afterward, Hudson landed her first television role at age 16 as a guest actor on Fox’s Party of Five.
• She later declined an audition for her stepfather Kurt Russell’s 1996 film to avoid being defined by her family’s fame.
• Hudson remains close to her mother and stepfather and has been estranged from her biological father, Bill Hudson.