A little girl was abandoned by her father, who cruelly claimed she was “dead” to him—but she grew up to become a famous actress.

In 1975, a member of The Hudson Brothers met actress Goldie Hawn on a first-class flight from New York to LA. The spark was immediate. “The attraction was instantaneous,” he recalled. They had dinner that night, and their romance took off, marked by intense physical chemistry.

They married in 1976 while Goldie was pregnant with their son, who faced a serious health scare at birth—meconium aspiration. The couple eventually split, and in 1983, Goldie began dating actor Kurt Russell, whom she had first met in 1968. Their romantic relationship started while filming Swing Shift, and their son, Wyatt, was born in 1986.