Hollywood legend Goldie Hawn and actor Andrew Garfield shared a touching moment on stage at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Hawn, 79, was presenting the awards for best animated film and short, alongside “Spider-Man” star Garfield, when she paused and asked him, “Okay, sweetheart, can you read that? I can’t read that.” Goldie Hawn (left) and Andrew Garfield (right) pictured backstage at the Oscars. “I’m completely blind. I mean, I am!” said the “Private Benjamin” star, before jokingly adding, “Cataracts.” On Monday, a representative for Hawn clarified to CNN that the Oscar-winner’s vision is perfectly fine. (Cataracts are a common condition that can cause blindness if left untreated, but which can be fixed with a simple surgery.) Garfield reassured Hawn, “Okay, I’ve got you,” as he stepped in to announce a win for the Latvian movie “Flow.”
All There Is with Anderson Cooper Andrew Garfield’s Grief Andrew Garfield’s mother Lynne died from pancreatic cancer in 2019. In this deeply moving and emotional episode Andrew talks with Anderson about how grief is now the only way for him to feel close to his mom again. “The wound is the only route to the gift,” Andrew says. “The grief and the loss are the only route to the vitality of being alive.”
Earlier, Garfield had expressed his gratitude to Hawn for the joy she brought to his late mother, Linda, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2019. “Can I tell you something?” he said. “There’s someone, there’s a person who gave my mother during her life the most joy, the most comfort, and tonight, I feel very lucky, because I get to thank that person from the bottom of my heart. That person is Goldie Hawn,” Garfield said. Hawn responded, “Thank you, sweetie, that really touches me.” In October 2024, Garfield spoke with CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the lessons he has learned through grieving for his mother. “It’s so weird. It’s like the longing and the grief, fully inhabiting it and feeling it is the only way I can really feel close to her again,” Garfield said during an appearance on the “All There Is with Anderson Cooper” podcast. “I know for a fact that this is a short life, and the things that mattered before don’t matter anymore. And I think when I say things taste differently, I think things can taste much more sweet now because of the sorrow that I’ve felt, and they can taste much more bitter.”
