Matt! Owen! Dax! Kate Hudson’s Most Honest Quotes About Her Exes

No goodbyes necessary! Kate Hudson has had her fair share of relationship ups and downs over the years — but she’s managed to stay on good terms with almost all of her exes.

“As much as I would say I don’t recommend it to most, my situation is quite amazing,” Hudson said during a September 2019 episode of the “Divorce Sucks!” podcast while discussing having positive relationships with her former flames. “They all get along. It’s funny, and we laugh about it. I never thought my life would look like that, but it is what it is. All I care about is happy kids, and we all make that the priority.”

Hudson met first husband Chris Robinson while on vacation when she was 20 years old. The twosome had a whirlwind romance before tying the knot in 2000 and welcoming son Ryder four years later.

“I thought, ‘I’m madly in love and I want to marry him,’ and so I just didn’t think twice. And I’m kind of still like that, except with a little more wisdom under my belt,” Hudson said of her and Robinson’s dynamic during a February 2023 episode of “The World’s First Podcast With Erin & Sara Foster.”

The pair split in 2006 but continued to amicably coparent their son. The Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery star moved on with Matt Bellamy in 2010. The duo got engaged after less than one year of dating — and just three months before welcoming their son, Bingham. While the two called it quits in 2014, they remained close friends.

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“Matt and I, we have a great way of talking to each other about Bing and instilling the same rules in the house,” she explained on “Divorce Sucks!” in March 2019. “We find that to be really important for Bing to feel that there’s no ‘you’re not going to get away with anything’ in each other’s house. Mommy and Daddy are on the same page.”

Hudson began dating Danny Fujikawa in December 2016, and the couple welcomed daughter Rani Rose in 2018. Three years later, the Chief guitarist popped the question.

Hudson has often been candid about balancing her coparenting relationship with the fathers of her children and gushed about their healthy — but unique — dynamic.

“It might not look traditional from the outside, but on the inside, I feel like we’re killing it,” the Fabletics founder told the Sunday Times in November 2022. “The unit that I’ve created with three children with three different fathers is a seriously strong unit, and it’s ours. I’m not interested in forcing some conventional idea of love or marriage.”

The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days actress added that she and her exes are able to remain on good terms by remembering why they were drawn together in the first place.

“For me it’s like, you loved this person. That doesn’t just go away, but you can re-establish a different kind of love,” she explained. “You can have an amazing time with an ex-partner because you’re really only focused on the love of your child.”

Keep scrolling to see what Hudson has said about all her exes over the years:

The Almost Famous star shared that none of her kids can’t “get away with anything” thanks to how often she and her ex-husbands communicate. 

“Matt and I, we have a great way of talking to each other about Bing and instilling the same rules in the house,” she explained on the “Divorce Sucks!” podcast in March 2019. “We find that to be really important for Bing to feel that there’s no ‘you’re not going to get away with anything’ in each other’s house. Mommy and Daddy are on the same page.”

Hudson added that she has a similar dynamic with Robinson. “Chris and I, we’re good. It’s kind of funny too — Ryder really can’t get away with anything,” she laughed. 

Hudson opened up about her and Bellamy’s whirlwind romance during a January 2023 episode of “The World’s First Podcast With Erin & Sara Foster.”

“I just, like, jump in the deep end of everything I do,” she explained. “People thought it was impulsive, but it was more like I was just like, ‘You know what? I’m just going to dive right into this. I’m not gonna second guess it. I’m in love with him. I’m not gonna pretend like, ‘Oh, we should wait.’”

“I think the one thing that I learned from my mom is that no matter what you’re feeling and no matter what — when I see my friends talking s—t about their ex-spouses in front of their kids, I get so upset because they don’t recognize how much that affects their child and how resentful their child will become of them,” she said during a March 2019 episode of the “Divorce Sucks!” podcast, noting that her mother, Goldie Hawn, inspired the habit by refusing to speak poorly about ex Bill Hudson. “No matter what, I never heard a bad word about my father.”

“I’m so grateful for the family that I have, and the relationships that I have,” the California native revealed on the “Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi” podcast in February 2023. “I’m so close with my ex Matt, Bing’s dad. Like, I love him so much, and [we’re] exactly where we were supposed to be, you know? I think he feels the same way about me.”

“Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that or you can choose to reframe it,” Hudson said during an October 2015 interview with Allure. “If Matt and I had a great relationship, we would still be together, but we chose to move on because we had different visions of how we wanted to live our lives.”

Kate added that just because the twosome’s romantic relationship didn’t work out, that doesn’t mean they couldn’t “rebuild something that would be the best thing for the kids.” 

The Glee alum shared that she and the Black Crowes frontman “worshipped each other” before getting married. 

“[I thought,] ‘I’m madly in love and I want to marry him’ and so I just didn’t think twice. And I’m kind of still like that, except with a little more wisdom under my belt,” she recalled to Erin and Sara Foster in January 2023.

Kate shared that once she became “honest” with herself, she was able to accept that her and Bellamy’s relationship was coming to an end. 

“You have to be honest with yourself,” she said on the “Reign With Josh Smith” podcast in December 2022. “I think that’s when things started changing for me — when I started taking far more accountability for my own s—t. That was when it started to shift because that’s where I think you find your power. When you realize how imperfect we all are, when you’re OK with that, it’s very liberating.”

The Fool’s Gold star shared during a January 2023 episode of “The World’s First Podcast With Sara & Erin Foster” that the rocker was “so important in teaching me what it felt like to be unconditionally loved.”

“Chris completely opened that floodgate for me. No matter how complicated the relationship got at one point, the most important moment for me was meeting him and him allowing me to understand what that felt like,” she gushed. 

During a January 2023 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, the Never Been Kissed star and Kate dished about dating the Wilson brothers in the early 2000s. 

“I was with Luke Wilson. And you were doing [the 2003 film] Alex & Emma together, I think, and I was dating him, but I think he was also dating other people. It was an open relationship, we were young,” Barrymore shared, to which Kate replied, “I’ve been there with a Wilson too.” 

Despite both relationships fizzling out, the two women agreed they had “the best time” with their respective Wilsons. 

Kate opened up to Women’s Health in May 2021 about making sure her children feel like their lives are enriched by having a bigger brood. 

“One thing that Matt said to me, which I loved, is, ‘I just want to make sure that Bing feels like he’s gaining something, not losing something,'” she said. “I think it’s even bonded us closer — me, Matt, [his wife] Elle [Evans] and Danny — because we have to trust that we’re protecting each other.”

She added, “I’m really lucky. I’ve got lots of dads. I trust them.” 

Kate made an appearance on ex Shepard’s podcast, “Armchair Expert,” in November 2019 and the duo opened up about their past romance — and what led to their eventual split. 

“We were in a totally different place,” Hudson explained of when they met, while the Parenthood alum joked, “I wasn’t plotting anything, but I certainly wanted your approval and if you thought I was cute, all the better.”

One year later, the pair reconnected at a restaurant in Malibu and decided to have some fun by pretending to be together. 

“While we were there, we said, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if we came out holding hands and I was your new boyfriend?’” Shepard recalled. “We were just pals. And then we added, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if her new boyfriend didn’t wear a shirt at Nobu?’” 

The two pals pulled off the stunt — which Kate said was “so funny” she almost “peed in my pants” — and the hilarious excursion left the Mother’s Day actress attracted to Shepard in a new way.  

“Then I wanted to have sex with him,” Hudson quipped. “It was like the perfect move.”

While both agreed that their personalities were “super compatible” and they “laughed our asses off” during their romance, the duo ultimately “just parted ways” after a “mutual-esque end.” 

“I felt very ‘less than’ around you quite often,” the Idiocracy star admitted. “I think I was just in the point where I was not gonna get hired for movies anymore — I had a bunch that didn’t work — and I’m like, ‘I don’t f—ing know what’s next,’ and you were at that time making the most you ever made and having the most opportunity.”

Kate, for her part, added, “But you also said that you really wanted a ‘we’ in your life and that you felt that it was just about me. Honestly, I wasn’t giving Dax what he needed and I was making choices that were not relationship-focused. … I was not ready for what Dax wanted. It was so much fun, it got hot fast … and I wasn’t prepared.”

“As hard as the decisions were in my life and the depth in which I felt like I had failed relationships and family with my partners throughout those years — whether it be Chris or Matt — I knew it was the right thing to not be in those relationships,” she explained in a February 2023 episode of “Table for Two With Bruce Bozzi,” noting that she “knew” she’d be “happier” by breaking things off. 

 “It might not look traditional from the outside, but on the inside, I feel like we’re killing it,” the Fabletics founder told the Sunday Times in November 2022 about the dynamic of her blended brood. “The unit that I’ve created with three children with three different fathers is a seriously strong unit, and it’s ours. I’m not interested in forcing some conventional idea of love or marriage.”

She added: “For me it’s like, you loved this person. That doesn’t just go away, but you can re-establish a different kind of love. You can have an amazing time with an ex-partner because you’re really only focused on the love of your child.”