Kate Hudson on Goldie Hawn's beginnings: For Trucker, she stood in the cage as a go-go dancer

US actress Kate Hudson (45) has been making a name for herself as a singer for some time now and has now released the song "Right on Time" for the new deluxe version of her debut album "Glorious". In the emotional song, she dedicates herself to the life of her mother, actress Goldie Hawn, and the difficulties the 79-year-old faced before her breakthrough: Hawn earned her money at truck stops by "go-go dancing in cages".

As Hudson told the Los Angeles Times , the lyrics are about the unglamorous beginnings of her famous mother, who, for example, drove "a hundred miles to Baltimore in a broken-down Caddy with holes in the floor" for dance lessons: "She would wrap her feet up thickly when she drove to dance class because she had all these holes in the floor of the Cadillac - it was her father's car. When she got there, she had to thaw her feet in warm water because they were frozen."

Hudson also addresses Goldie Hawn's past as a go-go dancer in the song. "My mother used to dance in truck stops in Jersey," she says of her mother's origins before she became famous: "She danced go-go in cages. Well, she danced a few times. Then she said, 'I don't think I want to do this - I'm going to New York.'"

Kate Hudson recently told the "Graham Norton Show" how Goldie Hawn felt about her daughter putting her difficult beginnings to music: "I think she was confused at first, but when I told her it was about her childhood, she was very emotional."

When Hudson hears "Right on Time," "I get more lost in the story than the production." Hudson feels that children "should continue the stories of our parents" and that Hawn's "story is amazing." She spoke to the Los Angeles Times about "how incomprehensible her fame was for this little girl who came from a duplex in Takoma Park."

Hudson thinks it's important to appreciate the older generations more: "Sometimes I think part of what's happening in our culture is that we lose sight of the three-generation household. My grandmother - my mother's mother - lived with us when I was growing up, and there's something about going into your grandmother's room and hearing her stories and understanding your history." That's why she only lives "seven blocks from my mother, and she comes over every day."

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