Kate Hudson may not have been around to witness her biological father Bill Hudson’s party days in the 1970s, but Elton John was more than happy to meet her.
Hudson, 45, opened up about embracing her new career as a songwriter at a special performance and panel at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Monday, September 9.
During a conversation with journalist David Wise, the singer and actress revealed that John (77) often regaled her with stories about his heyday partying with her father Bill (74). Bill had a close relationship with John and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, as Taupin signed Bill’s band The Hudson Brothers to John’s Rocket Record Company and produced some of their albums.
“Every time I saw Elton John, especially after Almost famoushe would tell me these stories about how my father was crazy, and supposedly wild and naked all the time!” she said. “[He] liked to be naked. The stories I heard about my dad from Elton…”
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Kate Hudson performs at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on September 9.
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Hudson previously opened up about her strained relationship with Bill in a PEOPLE cover story in May, saying he was absent from her life after her divorce from her mother, Goldie Hawn, in 1982. After their split, Hawn began dating longtime partner Kurt Russell , and together they raised Kate and her brother Oliver, as well as Kurt’s son Boston and Kurt and Goldien’s son Wyatt.
“There’s nothing new there but love,” Hudson told PEOPLE of Bill. “I love him… I just don’t think too much about it. It’s a 40-year-old problem.”
In conversation with Wise, Hudson, who released her debut album Famously she said in May that she often used music to bond with her father when she was a child.
“I wanted him in my life, but because of the complications of life and people and whatnot, we had a very, very difficult relationship,” she said. “So, for me, music was like Hudson, you know? The Hudsons, we’re just… it’s all music. Even when I was little I wanted to feel that connection with him, but I never succeeded.”
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Bill Hudson ca. in 1970.
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She also spoke enthusiastically about her time on set Almost famous (which famously uses John’s song “Tiny Dancer” in the singing scene).
Hudson said the 2000 Cameron Crowe film “took my career to a place I could only imagine I would be as a performer.”
The star added that she “begged” director Crowe to let her audition for the role of Penny Lane, which she eventually secured.
“I was [initially] playing a sister. I was lower in the cast,” she said. “I was a huge fan of Cameron Crowe, so I just said, ‘Just please let me audition for Penny Lane,’ and he didn’t like it, and then he finally said yes.”
She continued, “The whole experience, as a whole, was amazing.”
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