United Kingdom, May 8 -- Kate Hudson's "rift" with her father is "healing".

The 45-year-old actress is the daughter of Hollywood star Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson but has become somewhat estranged from the singer over the years and claimed a few weeks ago that things are "warming up", an admission her father has now described as being "perfect".

He told this week's edition of UsWeekly: "Kate put it perfectly. We are warming up [and] letting things take their course. All families have rifts. It's nice that our rift is healing."

In 2016, Kate recalled that her father "wasn't around much" and then things "teetered out" and while Bill - who has Oliver, 47, with Goldie, Emily, 42, and Zachary, 38, with his late ex-wife, Cindy Williams, 18-ye...