It can be hard to face the demons that plagued you in childhood, but it's always worth it — just ask this member of a very famous Hollywood family. In a new episode of his podcast, Oliver Hudson explained the childhood "trauma" that he says was inflicted upon him because of his very famous mom, Goldie Hawn, and how he thinks about it today. He might still consider her an "amazing mother," but that doesn't mean he didn't end up with baggage to unpack as an adult.
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Oliver got real about his mental health on his podcast, 'Sibling Revelry.'
Celebrity siblings Oliver and Kate Hudson host the podcast, and this time around, they were talking about working through childhood trauma.
Oliver said he took a course called the Hoffman Process and realized that even though he says Goldie is an "amazing mother," he did admit that it wasn't always easy growing up as her son.
He found that Goldie was the source of most of his trauma.
"My mother was the one that I had almost the most trauma about, interestingly enough, because she was my primary caregiver and I was with her all of the time, so I felt unprotected at times," Oliver explained on the podcast.
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Her work schedule and social life didn't mesh well with his needs.
Because his dad, Bill Hudson, wasn't active in his life, he relied on his mom to fill the role of both parents, but Oliver noted she wasn't able to because she was "living her life."
"She would be working. She had new boyfriends that I didn’t really like," he said.
As a kid, he said he 'needed her to be there.'
“This is my own perception as a child who didn’t have a dad and needed her to be there and she just wasn’t sometimes and she came out far more than even my dad who wasn’t there," he said.
That couldn't have been easy.
Oliver said his therapy program helped him understand his parents better.
“The forgiveness and the compassion that you feel toward them at the end of this process is unbelievable because then you realize that they’re only repeating the ship that they went through, you know, with their parents,” he said.
Working through trauma is never easy, but it sounds like for Oliver, it was definitely worth it.
