Christopher Meloni received a "tight hug" from Goldie Hawn after she learned his mother had passed.
The 55-year-old actor was working on the set of comedy movie ‘Snatched’ with the blonde beauty when he revealed to her that his mother had recently passed away, and recalled the "beautiful" moment in which the 71-year-old actress gave him a comforting embrace.
He said: "We were shooting in Hawaii and I did a few of my scenes for a couple weeks there and then they said ‘We’re not going to need you for a while, so you go home.’ So I went back east and unfortunately my mother got ill and so she passed.
"I actually had to leave her bedside, flew and by the time I landed, she had passed. So no one knew except for the producers and the director and they were all very sweet and kind.
"Goldie Hawn and I start talking. I say, ‘I just came from D.C. That’s where I was.’ And she was like, ‘D.C.? What were you doing in D.C.?’ She goes, ‘I’m from D.C.’ And she says, ‘What were you doing in D.C.’ And I didn’t want to be coy about it – and I also didn’t want to make a big deal – but I said, ‘Well, to be honest, my mother passed.’ Oh, she grabs me … And she hugs me tight. She goes, ‘I know, I know,’ I was like, ‘Oh my God, what a beautiful…’ I needed that moment, right?"
And it wasn’t just Goldie who helped the former ‘Law and Order: SVU’ actor find comfort after his mother’s passing, as actress Amy Schumer also reached out, taking a more light-hearted approach as she pretended to be too busy talking on the phone.
Christopher explained during an appearance on ‘The Talk’ on Wednesday (08.03.17): "And then Amy, she goes ‘Wait, what did you just say?’ I said, ‘Well, my mother passed.’ She goes, ‘Oh, that’s terrible. Hold on one second.’ I knew she was joking. … How courageous that she – she invited, she needed to diffuse all of that obvious emotion that was filling up the boat. And later – this was even cuter – later she goes, ‘You know I was kidding, right?’ "
Christopher Meloni comforted by Goldie Hawn after mother’s passing
