{"id":512358,"date":"2026-06-01T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/512358\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:50:11","slug":"kurt-russell-reveals-why-he-left-hollywood-for-colorado-ranch-40-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/512358\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Russell reveals why he left Hollywood for Colorado ranch 40 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Kurt Russell wasn&#8217;t looking for an escape, but found home in the mountains after leaving <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528419\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Russell, 75, admitted that his ranch life <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528420\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/colorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in Colorado<\/a> allows him to do &#8220;the things that I want to do on a day-to-day basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;What I want to look at, what I want to be a part of \u2014 all the things that Colorado has to offer,&#8221; he told <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528421\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kurt-russell-recalls-leaving-la-for-colorado-with-goldie-hawn-exclusive-11987544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;I wanted to eventually get into the ranching life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528422\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kurt-russell-reveals-why-colorado-mountain-living-goldie-hawn-trumps-hollywood-glamour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>KURT RUSSELL REVEALS WHY COLORADO MOUNTAIN LIVING WITH GOLDIE HAWN TRUMPS HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kurt-russell.jpg\" alt=\"Kurt Russell standing on a red carpet at an event.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Kurt Russell said he wished he spent more time at his ranch in Colorado during a red carpet event. (Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">He added, &#8220;When <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528423\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kurt-russell-goldie-hawn-never-married-deciding-43-years-ago-have-fun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Goldie and I got together<\/a>, a couple of years later, we both built a ranch there together, where our family has grown up. That was 40 years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The &#8220;Tombstone&#8221; star caught noted that his decision to leave Hollywood at the time wasn&#8217;t a popular option within the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t escaping. I was just living where I live,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was fortunate that it really didn&#8217;t make any difference.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528424\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/tom-green-ditches-hollywood-farm-life-after-wild-ride-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>TOM GREEN DITCHES HOLLYWOOD FOR FARM LIFE AFTER WILD RIDE TO FAME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;But when I did it, nobody else was doing that. I had many people tell me, &#8216;Well, that&#8217;s goodbye. That&#8217;s it.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Well, we&#8217;ll see.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">He&#8217;s witnessed the exodus out of the City of Angels in the years since he chose a more relaxed lifestyle in Colorado with his family.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/goldie-hawn-kurt-russell-aspen.jpg\" alt=\"Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell standing together at Rio Grande Park in Aspen, Colorado\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have owned property in Colorado for more than 40 years. (Greg Doherty\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t dislike L.A.,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just not my preference in terms of how I like to live my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">He added, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to understand something about the area of Old Snowmass. Everybody who lives there, they live there because they want to. I can&#8217;t say that about L.A.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528425\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kurt-russell-goldie-hawns-warning-daughter-kate-hudson-surviving-hollywood-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>KURT RUSSELL, GOLDIE HAWN\u2019S BLUNT WARNING TO DAUGHTER KATE HUDSON ABOUT SURVIVING HOLLYWOOD FAME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Russell said that life in Colorado for his children is &#8220;very different from living in the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;They grew up with a good dose of what <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528426\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kurt-russell-offers-no-apologies-traditional-hunting-lifestyle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">nature can offer<\/a>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are difficulties to it, but there are also great rewards to it. I&#8217;m just more comfortable there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">He compared the quiet country life to how he &#8220;grew up in Maine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kurt-russell-outdoors.jpg\" alt=\"Kurt Russell wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses at Rio Grande Park in Aspen\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Kurt Russell admitted he&#8217;s &#8220;more comfortable&#8221; in the mountains than in LA. (Greg Doherty\/Getty Images for St. Regis)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;I suppose, once you&#8217;re exposed to that kind of thing, it&#8217;s always home,&#8221; Russell said.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;Everything we did there in terms of what we built and what we have in terms of being able to offer in life for our children, I&#8217;m really, really happy that we were able to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528427\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kurt-russell-reveals-why-he-glad-when-son-wyatt-turned-acting-after-hockey-career\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>KURT RUSSELL REVEALS WHY HE WAS &#8216;GLAD&#8217; WHEN SON WYATT TURNED TO ACTING AFTER HOCKEY CAREER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528428\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kurt-russell-says-the-madison-love-story-hit-me-really-hard-because-his-romance-goldie-hawn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;The Madison&#8221; star<\/a> previously told Fox News Digital that it&#8217;s the people who make his life most fun, even outside of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Hawn has two children, <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528429\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kate-hudson-goldie-hawn-kurt-russell-the-best-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oliver and Kate Hudson<\/a>, from her previous marriage to Bill Hudson. Russell has a son, Boston, from his marriage to Season Hubley. The couple has one biological son together, Wyatt.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/goldie-hawn-kurt-russell-young.jpg\" alt=\"Kurt Russell in tuxedo and Goldie Hawn in black dress posing in New York City\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn began dating in 1983 and raised four children together. (Catherine McGann\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;What I enjoy most is that [Hawn] really likes it in Colorado,&#8221; Russell said. &#8220;Wyatt and Meredith and their two boys, they live in Colorado now. So we like to spend as much time there as we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Hawn, 80, may have revealed more into why the couple chooses the mountains over the city after admitting their <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528431\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/nicole-kidman-keith-urbans-la-home-broken-into-ransacked-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LA home was robbed once<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;What if we couldn&#8217;t live in LA, where would we live? We both decided, I think it&#8217;s Palm Desert \u2026 It&#8217;s so safe,&#8221; Hawn reminisced about her dream location to plant new roots while appearing on the SiriusXM podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/goldie-hawn-pt-1-wants-to-solve-the-problem-not-talk-about-it\/id1676166337?i=1000658724863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa.<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-869589402.jpg\" alt=\"Goldie Hawn looking off-camera with bouncy blonde hair on a red carpet in New York City\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Goldie Hawn admitted she hired a security guard after her Los Angeles home was broken into twice in four months. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just &#8217;cause <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528433\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">L.A. is terrible.<\/a> I mean, we were robbed once.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528434\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/goldie-hawn-blasts-cancel-culture-says-its-ruining-comedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Academy Award-winning actress<\/a> explained that she and Russell were &#8220;gone two hours and 20 minutes&#8221; before returning home to a seemingly normal situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;We came back and went in the house. I went up to the stairs and I walked into my closet. I just lost it,&#8221; Hawn said. &#8220;They had broken in from the balcony to our bedroom, our closets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_4528435\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Hawn added, &#8220;And they completely knocked down my door, which is a safe door, so they&#8217;re very, very sophisticated, and they got a lot of my goodies, if you know what I mean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/goldie-hawn_kurt-russell.jpg\" alt=\"Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell posing together at an event\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell like to spend &#8220;as much time&#8221; in Colorado as they can. (Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Four months later, Hawn was alone at home with just her dog when she heard a startling noise in another room.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;I hear this big thump upstairs \u2014 and I was alone; Kurt wasn&#8217;t there \u2014 and I went, &#8216;What the hell was that?'&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;It was just like, was that a sonic boom? Did somebody jump somewhere? 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