{"id":1836,"date":"2026-02-17T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:05:04","slug":"michael-madsen-speaks-out-following-death-of-son-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"Michael Madsen speaks out following death of son Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReservoir Dogs\u201d and \u201cKill Bill\u201d star Michael Madsen addressed the tragic loss of his son, Hudson, who died from a gunshot wound to the head in January 2022. He was 26.<\/p>\n<p>The City and County of Honolulu Medical Examiner reported it as a suspected suicide.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to\u00a0<em>Metro<\/em>, the family expressed being \u201cheartbroken and overwhelmed with grief,\u201d requesting privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Madsen told\u00a0<em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0he was in shock, recalling his last text from Hudson: \u201cI love you dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t see any signs of depression,\u201d Madsen said. \u201cHe was looking forward to the future. It\u2019s mind-blowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He believes Hudson struggled after joining the Army, especially after being mocked for seeking therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson served in Afghanistan from August 2018 to January 2019 and was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>He lived in Hawaii with his wife, Carlie, and Madsen said their marriage \u201cwas going strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Hudson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReservoir Dogs\u201d and \u201cKill Bill\u201d star Michael Madsen addressed the tragic loss of his son, Hudson, who died from a gunshot wound to the head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}