Goldie Hawn regrets it.
In 1970, Goldie Hawn won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and she still regrets missing the ceremony.
"I never got dressed up. I never got to pick up the award," in a fresh cover story for Variety that was released on Wednesday in advance of this Sunday's 95th Academy Awards ceremony, Hawn, 77, revealed this.
"I regret it," added Hawn, who won for her performance in 1969's Cactus Flower. "It's something that I look back on now and think, 'It would have been so great to be able to have done that.' "
Hawn informed the publication that she was in London filming the movie There's a Girl in My Soup, which prevented her from attending the ceremony.
Prior to receiving an early-morning phone call and "had a good cry," she claimed she "forgot" the award was on television that night and had no idea she had won it.
"Then I woke up to a phone call at like 4 in the morning. And it was a man's voice and he said, 'Hey, congratulations, you got it,' " she recalled. "'I got what?' 'You got the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.' "
Even after hearing Jimmy Kimmel, this year's Oscars host, tell her that Fred Astaire proclaimed her name when she won, the actress revealed to the publication that she had never watched the film of the moment she won before.
At the time, the award was accepted on Hawn's behalf by Raquel Welch, who passed away last month at age 82.
"And I said, 'Fred Astaire?!' He's my idol," Hawn said. "And I didn't know he was the one that announced my name. I got emotional when I finally saw it."