Kate Hudson reveals why she was told to divorce parents Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson as a teen

Kate Hudson was almost famous under different circumstances.The actress, 46, recently revealed that as a teen, she was told to get emancipated from her parents, Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, in order to land more work in Hollywood.“I had gotten this part that they wanted me to basically divorce my parents so that I could work as an adult,” Hudson said while on the “Awards Chatter” podcast at the Newport Beach TV Fest earlier this month.“My mom was like, ‘No – never happening,'” she confessed.

“But then I got the ‘Party of Five’ and it was so great.” The Fox drama debuted in 1994 and followed the lives of the five Salinger siblings after their parents died in a car crash.The series starred Matthew Fox as the eldest sibling and guardian, Charlie Salinger, Scott Wolf as Bailey Salinger, Neve Campbell as Julia Salinger, Lacey Chabert as Claudia Salinger and Jacob Smith as Owen Salinger.Hudson guest-starred on Season 2 episode 21, titled “Spring Breaks: Part 1” in 1996.She played Cory, a co-worker of Michael Goorjian’s character Justin Thompson.

Thompson was Julia’s love interest at the beginning of the show.“Party of Five” marked Hudson’s first role on a television series, and she recalled Goorjian, 54, being “so sweet” and “so kind” on set.“It was like two days of shooting,” she explained, “and I missed two days of school and my mom actually allowed me to do it.”“I was 16 and obsessed with ‘Party of Five,’ so walking onto that set was like, I couldn’t believe that I was going to have a guest role on it, a day player role,” Hudson gushed.“I was like, oh.

It was so fun.” While on the live podcast episode, the “Running Point” star also touched on why she turned down an acting job at the age of 16.At the time, Hudson had begun seriously auditioning for roles and her stepdad, Kurt Russell, suggested she try out for the part of a young girl in his 1996 movie “Escape from L.A.”“I went...