Kat Hudson is recalling the sadness she felt after her split from Chris Robinson. But ultimately the separation was a byproduct of its own evolution.
The 45-year-old actress appeared on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show and talked about her marriage to the Black Crowes frontman. They married on New Year’s Eve in 2000, when she was just 21 years old. They divorced in 2007 and share 20-year-old son Ryder.
“My relationship with Chris was so beautiful and there was so much love there, but I really grew from it,” Hudson said referring to traveling with Robinson while he was on tour with his band. “It was not an easy breakup. I was very much in love with him, but it wouldn’t be for the rest of my life.”
O Almost famous Star highlighted Robinson’s musical genius as a “brilliant” and “incredible” frontman, but the tour’s grunt eventually took its toll.
“With that comes this kind of life as a nomad,” she said, “and as an artist, that can be hard on relationships.”
Hudson knows she was very young when she took a leap of faith by marrying Robinson, now 57. And therein lies the reason why the marriage came to an end.
“I was like a baby. When my life really started to take off and I wanted to go in different directions, we literally weren’t in the same space to continue,” she added.
Hudson then embarked on a four-year relationship with Matt Bellamy from 2010 to 2014. They share 12-year-old son Bingham. She is currently engaged to Danny Fujikawa, and the couple share daughter Rani Rose, 5.
Hudson’s comments come more than a year after she offered a rare interview about Robinson while at the You’re doing fine…just keep going podcast with her longtime friends Erin and Sara Foster. She recalled in that interview returning from a trip when she was 20 and declaring that she was “marry this guy.”
But when the separation came, it was a surprise to everyone except her.
“I just like diving into the deep end of everything I do,” she explained. “People thought it was impulsive, but it was more like I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to dive right into it. I’m not going to second guess it. I’m in love with him. I’m not going to pretend, ‘Oh, we should wait.’ I’m madly in love and want to marry him, so I didn’t think twice and I’m still like that, except with a little more wisdom under my belt.
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