Over the years, Kate has opened up several times about how her biological father has been absent most of her life. "He was around when we were young and then it sort of teetered out," she said in a 2016 interview on "The Howard Stern Show."
Despite their complicated relationship, Kate said her mother "never spoke poorly of him" and understood that whatever happened between Bill and Hawn didn't have to do with her or her brother Oliver. Kate also said she doesn't see her father in a bad light, adding, "Those issues are just something that he has to live with and that must be painful for him and so I forgive him."
Her comments arrived just a year after Bill publicly disowned Kate and Oliver. "I had five birth children but I now consider myself a father of three. I no longer recognize Oliver and Kate as my own," Bill told the Daily Mail after Oliver posted a shady Father's Day Instagram calling out Bill for "abandoning" his children. "I would ask them to stop using the Hudson name. They are no longer a part of my life."
