Goldie Hawn made a shocking revelation concerning her health during the 2025 Oscars in Los Angeles. The 79-year-old star presented the Best Animated Feature Film award alongside 41-year-old Andrew Garfield. Although Hawn has often spoken about her health challenge in public, the actress has not given as many details or ever said it to such a large audience, both onsite and online, consisting of about 20 million.
While Goldie Hawn made light of her situation, Andrew Garfield expressed gratitude to her for helping someone dear to him through her movies. Andrew was also excited to present with Hawn, someone he adores, which was evident in how he composed himself around her. Accompanied by her beloved partner Kurt Russell, the Overboard star graced the red carpet in her butter-yellow gown.
Andrew Garfield and Goldie Hawn at the 2025 Oscars
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Goldie Hawn shared an update about her health on the 2025 Oscars stage at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 2nd and asked her co-presenter, Andrew Garfield, for help. Hawn was reading her scripted speech from the teleprompter when she suddenly could not continue. “I was so lucky to make movies… and making people laugh,” Hawn read. “And maybe some didn’t, but that’s okay.”
As she continued, “In the meantime,” she suddenly paused and asked if Andrew could read what was next in her scripted speech, adding that she was “completely blind. I am; I’ve got the cataracts.” This was shocking and unexpected for the audience and viewers across the globe, but Andrew responded with care. “Okay, I’ve got you,” he said, diverting all attention from Hawn’s health issue back to the event.
Meanwhile, Goldie Hawn only made the statement as a joke to brighten the room. Hawn won the Oscars once, in 1969, for Best Supporting Actress for Cactus Flower. She was nominated for Best Actress for Private Benjamin in 1980 but did not win. The actress won the Golden Globe Awards for the 1969 movie Cactus Flower and was nominated for her roles in Private Benjamin, Foul Play, and others in subsequent years.
Thus, Goldie Hawn has been the favorite of many fans worldwide. Even her co-presenter, Andrew Garfield, had something beautiful to say about her and her acting. Andrew acknowledged Hawn as his mother’s joy giver. He took a moment to reminisce about sharing a part of his late mother’s life, which he would never have gotten the opportunity to talk about had they not been co-presenters.
Andrew Garfield thanks Goldie Hawn for his mother
“Tonight, I feel very lucky because I get to thank that person from the bottom of my heart.” Garfield could not contain his excitement about being able to personally stand beside the person who brought comfort to his mother before she passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2019. Then he spoke about how she would be smiling at them from where she was resting and thanked Goldie Hawn for blessing the world with her heart-lifting movies.
However, this is not the first time Andrew would be talking about his late mother. He is fond of bringing her up in conversations and interviews because he misses her so much. He has also been nominated twice for the Best Actor award, though he has not won any yet. He and Goldie Hawn announced the winner of the Best Animated Feature Film award to Flow, a Latvian animated fantasy adventure film directed by Gints Zilbalodis and written by him and Matīss Kaža.
Goldie Hawn has often spoken of some health challenges she faced during the early years of her career. When she first landed her first acting role, she recalled feeling anxious and depressed because the scriptwriters wrote a part for her. Hawn recalled that it was the scariest thing that ever happened to her.