Goldie Hawn Recalls What Elvis Presley Said She Looked Like When They First Met

Goldie Hawn recalled meeting Elvis Presley while rehearsing Laugh-In at NBC Studios, where the singer compared her to a newly hatched chicken.

Speaking on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday (Nov. 10), Hawn said the encounter took place decades ago. “I remember I was wearing a purple wool jumpsuit, and I went over to him and I said hi,” she said.

“He took my hair and went, ‘You look like a chicken that’s just been hatched,’” she recalled. “I said, ‘Oh, thank you.’”

A few years later, Hawn headlined a residency at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, and Presley invited her to stay in his private suite. “He didn’t let a lot of people back there,” she told Hudson. “But me and my daddy [Edward Rutledge Hawn], we stayed in his big suite. … I was there for three weeks. And I saw [Elvis] during that time and he was a precious, precious person.”

The Death Becomes Her actress also discussed her children’s book The After-School Kindness Crew (Pooch on the Loose #1), which was published in May. Hawn shared an interest in children’s literature with her late friend Dolly Parton, the founder of Imagination Library. Hawn honored Parton in August after the country singer died at age 80.

“She was a ray of light!” Hawn wrote on Instagram at the time. “She was lit up like an angel, a joyful, celestial being. Dolly blessed us all for generations to come. Rest, dear Angel, and, as you said, keep the angels creating music and singing in the heavens.”

Source: Billboard