Why I Could not Attend Golden Globes 2023

A somber message. Kevin Costner shared a heartfelt video with followers simply minutes earlier than the 2023 Golden Globes started.

“Hello everybody, look … I’m so sorry to everybody who might need been turning into watch the Golden Globes,” Costner, 67 — whose position as John Dutton on Yellowstone earned him a finest actor nomination — said within the video, which he shared by way of Instagram on Tuesday, January 10.

The 2-time Academy Award winner continued to precise his deep remorse that he and his spouse, Christine Baumgartner, couldn’t attend the eightieth annual awards ceremony, explaining that the continuing California floods stopped them from with the ability to even get to their home. (Per Forbes, 17 folks have died throughout the floods and 1000’s have been pressured to evacuate their houses.)

“Yesterday, we needed to pull the youngsters out of faculty, and in Santa Barbara, that is the second time in 5 years … the freeways flooded out,” the Area of Goals star defined, noting, “We discovered ourselves on the incorrect facet of city and couldn’t get again final night time. We couldn’t even get again to the home this morning in time, with the freeways closed.”

Costner, who’s a father of seven — he shares daughters Annie, 38, Lily, 36, and son Joe, 34, with first spouse Cindy Silva, son Liam, 27, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Rooney, and sons Cayden, 15, and Logan, 13 and Grace, 12, with Baumgartner, 48 — revealed his devastation at not with the ability to be on the Beverly Hilton throughout the ceremony.

“No person’s sadder than us that we will’t be there on the Golden Globes,” he added. “Chris had a fantastic gown, I used to be trying ahead to strolling down the pink carpet along with her.”

Costner continued: “The folks at Yellowstone … my castmates … my administrators who’ve been directing me … I’m simply so sorry that I can’t be there. I actually needed to.”

Although the couple aren’t capable of have a good time Costner’s huge night time alongside his fellow A-listers — the Bodyguard star revealed simply “how dangerous Chris needed to assist me” — they’re nonetheless organising a celebration at residence. “She went out and acquired me some gold and yellow and black and silver balloons, and so we’re gonna [watch] the tv and see what occurs,” the actor defined, ending his message thanking followers for his or her “assist” and apologizing to the Globes.

“I’m actually sorry to the Golden Globes and the worldwide press,” Costner signed off. “I hope we’re invited again. Thanks.”

Regardless of his absence, two of Costner’s Yellowstone costars have been in attendance on the Beverly Hilton Tuesday. Each Cole Hauser (who portrays Rip Wheeler) and Mo Brings Lots (who performs Mo) hit the pink carpet and are readily available to current.