Goldie Hawn Emotionally Speaks Out About Children's Mental Health

Goldie Hawn became emotional as she spoke about the mental health of children at a conference. Watch below:

The Hollywood icon, 76, spoke at the CNN Life Itself Conference 2022 on behalf of her non-profit MindUP, which provides mental health support for children around the world.

“If one more child commits suicide… I can't take it. It's not possible in the United States of America,” the mum-of-three declared.

"We have every opportunity to change the way we educate our children… They're not automatons, they are humans, and they come in everyday with stressors, with problems,” she insisted.

"We can't turn a blind eye anymore,” she implored. “At forty years old you can't just start meditating, you have to start when you're little, to know, 'This is my tool, and I am standing firm, and I have agency over my own belief system,' and it's okay that you think differently…

“It sounds like a pipedream, but I'm going to keep it, because a pipedream is just wanting to help children, that too was a pipedream."

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At the end of her speech, Goldie thanked the audience for listening to her message and urged them to take children’s mental health seriously.

“I want to thank you all for listening, and I hope that we can together give our children the opportunity to grow straight and tall, and not take their life.

“And learn that you have the capability to become anything you want, if you just take it."

According to the charity’s official website, the Academy Award winning actor was inspired to create the non-profit because she was ‘alarmed by increases in school violence, youth depression and suicide and the persistent failure of the education system to help children cope with increasingly stressful lives’.

The Goldie Hawn Foundation began in 2003 and after working with neuroscientists, educators, psychologists and researchers, the Foundation established MindUP.

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Six million children in the US, Canada, UK, Finland, Ireland, Venezuela, Uganda, Portugal, Serbia, Jordan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand are served by MindUP.

Goldie Hawn is the matriarch to one of Hollywood’s most recognisable families. She has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983 and the pair have a son, actor and former hockey player Wyatt Russell, 36.

Goldie is also mum to Oliver Hudson, 45, and Kate Hudson, 43, through her marriage to musician and actor Bill Hudson.

Goldie and Kurt have seven grandchildren between them, including Kate’s children; Ryder Robinson, 18, Bingham Hawn Bellamy, 10, and Rani Rose Hudson Fujikawa, 3.

Oliver has three children – Bodhi Hawn Hudson, 11, Wilder Brooks Hudson, 14, and Rio Hudson, 8.

While Wyatt recently welcomed a son named Buddy Prine Russell who was born in 2021.

You can read more about MindUP on the official website. For mental health support for all ages, please visit Mind.org.uk.

Topics: Celebrity

Gregory Robinson

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