Bill Hudson says his kids Oliver, Kate are 'dead' to him
Bill Hudson has vowed to disown his two eldest children with Goldie Hawn following their Father's Day messages posted online.
"I no longer recognize Oliver and Kate as my own," the once father of five told Sunday's The Mail.
Hudson's decision was made on the heels of candid Father's Day posts his kids posted pointing to his absence throughout their lives.
"Happy Abandonment Day ….. @katheudson," Oliver Hudson tweeted along with a photo of him and his sister as children posing with their biological father.
Kate Hudson followed up her brother's post with a photo of them as kids with their mother's longtime love Kurt Russell.
"Pa, just simply … thank you. Happy Father's Day. I love you to the moon and back," she captioned the pic.
Oliver echoed her sentiment and posted another photo with Russell with the caption, "Happy Father's Day, Pa."
"I say to them now, 'I set you free,'" Bill told The Mail Sunday. "I had five birth children but I now consider myself a father of three."
Furthermore, Bill has publicly requested that Kate and Oliver ditch their family name.
"I would ask them to stop using the Hudson name," he said. "They are no longer a part of my life.
"Oliver's Instagram post was a malicious, vicious, premeditated attack," Bill continued. "He is dead to me now. As is Kate. I am mourning their loss even though they are still walking this earth."
While Bill mourned what he insisted was the end of his relationship with Kate, 36, and Oliver, 38, it's his ex-wife — whom he divorced in 1980 after four years of marriage when Oliver was 4 and Kate was 2 — that he blames.
"When we split up, she never had a bad word to say about me. But when Kurt came on the scene, the narrative changed and I became the big, bad wolf," he recalled about when Hawn and Russell met in 1983. "I would say to her, 'Goldie, why are you trashing me and saying I'm an absent father when it's simply not the case?' And she'd
and go, 'Oh, Bill, you know it makes for a better story.'"
Hudson added: "Goldie wanted to create this myth of a perfect family with Kurt and she wanted me out. It's time for the truth to come out."
The 65-year-old said his decision to end all ties with his eldest children was not an easy one, but he felt it was necessary.
"He was my first-born. I adored that child," he said of Oliver. "When Kate came along, I loved her with all my heart, too. There was this deep love among the four of us for years. And that's what makes it so difficult to say goodbye."
Reps for Hawn and Oliver and Kate Hudson did not immediately respond to the Daily News' requests for comments.
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and go, 'Oh, Bill, you know it makes for a better story.'"