Goldie Hawn Recalls Daughter Kate Hudson Asking Her ‘Mommy, Is God My Cousin’ at Age 6: ‘I Didn’t Know What to Say’

Goldie Hawn is reflecting on raising her daughter Kate Hudson — and how she “didn’t know what to say” when Hudson posed a tough question to her at just six years old.

On Friday, Dec. 6, the 79-year-old Oscar winner spoke during a panel at The Wellness Oasis presented by Chase in Miami, where she shared a wholesome anecdote about motherhood, religion and a difficult line of questioning.

“My daughter Katie, she was six, and she said, ‘Mommy is God my cousin?’ And I didn’t know what to say,” Hawn said while speaking at 1 Hotel South Beach during Art Basel week.

“I said, ‘Actually, God could be your cousin. God is everywhere. But, maybe it’s better if I tell you what God feels like. You know the feeling you have just before you’re going to laugh? Where all that joy is all in you? If you could just keep that in before you guffaw, that’s what God is. That’s what God feels like,'” she added at the event, produced by 4B Advisory.

Hawn welcomed Hudson, now 45, in April 1979 with ex Bill Hudson. The pair is also parents to Oliver Hudson.

Hawn is also a mom to son Wyatt Russell with Kurt Russell, who is also a dad to son Boston Russell with ex-wife Season Hubley.

Outside of reflecting on motherhood, Hawn has also been open about becoming a grandmother of eight.

During a Nov. 20 episode of Making Space with Hoda Kotb, The First Wives Club alum shared how being a grandmother impacted her after she first welcomed a grandchild to the family with the birth of Hudson’s oldest child, Ryder, in 2004.

“When Ryder was born, Kate’s first, I still had a kid at home,” she said, referring to her son Wyatt, who was a teenager at the time.

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Hawn then described the “unbelievable” transition from being a mom to being a grandmother. “It’s an unbelievable weave that starts to happen when your children start to have children. But they’re the parents,” she said. “And what one has to be careful is that we don’t want to be a horn that’s always saying, ‘Why’d you do that?’ and, ‘They should do this,’ and whatever. So Kurt and I give them full autonomy.”

While she added that she does “miss being a mother,” Hawn revealed that it’s “important to cherish” that she was the “it girl” in her children’s lives at one point.

“I do love being a grandmother, but I’m not the boss. I’m just the one that can deliver happiness to them, and also an ear if they need it,” she said.