Goldie Hawn A Wallflower?

Mike Wallace Talks To Actress Goldie Hawn And Kurt Russell

(CBS)  It was the late '60s, and soon after, her career took off with those comedic parts on TV and film. But off camera, her life was no joke. Her trademark grin became a false cover to what was inside.

"During that period, I went into a period of depression. A fear and anxiety and non-specific anxiety attacks, of where I actually didn't know -- I lost my smile, like I had to force it," says Hawn.

"I was afraid. I left everything I knew. I left every friend that I had made. I was away from my family. I was in Los Angeles, Calif. I'm a family girl. I don't know. I just lost it."

Hawn says it took nine years of psychoanalysis to get through the anxiety, and the depressions. Meantime, her career was on a steady climb, skyrocketing in 1980 when she both produced and starred in “Private Benjamin.” That film got her another Oscar nomination and firmly established her as one of Hollywood’s most powerful actresses.

In 1983, producer Goldie auditioned Disney star Kurt Russell to play opposite her in “Swing Shift.” He was instantly smitten. Their first date took place on Valentine's Day. Late that night, Hawn suggested they go to her house.

"And I turned around to say something to her, and she was running at me. And she jumped up on me. And it was sheer – it was honesty," says Russell. "It was just-- that's the way she felt. That's exactly how she felt. She wanted to hug me."

"You didn't think she was a tramp?" asks Wallace.

"Just enough of a tramp. I like that," says Russell, laughing. "I don't like that pure -- thing all the way. I like her trampiness. She has just a touch."

At the time they met, Russell was a divorced father of one, and Hawn was a twice-divorced mother of two. Wyatt would soon join Hawn's kids, Kate and Oliver Hudson, and Russell's son, Boston.

Today, Kate Hudson is a successful actress in her own right, an Oscar nominee for the film, "Almost Famous." Oliver Hudson is also an actor.

Boston, 25, is a Georgetown graduate with degrees in both neuroscience and theology. And Wyatt, now 19, is as aspiring hockey player. In fact, Russell moved the family to Vancouver for Wyatt to further his hockey dream.

"He said, 'If this is really what you wanna do, you have to get serious about it,'" says Wyatt, adding that his parents moved to Vancouver for him "to fulfill my dream to be a hockey player."

"When you have seen you mother in sexually explicit things on screen, does that embarrass you?" asks Wallace.

"We have a very sexual family. They've never hid, you know, their sex or sexuality or sensuality has never been a hidden issue in our family," says Kate Hudson. "I mean, we were always very open about those things. And my mother's a very flirtatious, sensual person, and sexy and all that."

Between love scenes and raising kids, Hawn is always on the go. She participates in local rituals like the Festival of Colors in India. It may seem bizarre, but her interest in things mystical and spiritual is serious. She’s practiced meditation for 30 years now and she’s converted to Buddhism.

"I've been practicing Buddhism for a while. So, I call myself a Jew-Bu, because my tribe is still Jew. But my philosophy and my practice is really Buddhist," says Hawn. "Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness."

Truth be told, ask Hawn who she really is and the word “actor” doesn’t even come up. She’ll tell you she’s a mom first. And at 59, she's happy to be still the girlfriend of Kurt Russell.

"We have a lot of good days," says Russell. "That's why I figure it this way. If it's 3 percent really bad, and 7 percent not too good, but 90 percent fabulous … I think I'll take that. I would honestly say that ours has been 2 percent really bad, 2 percent so-so, and 96 percent fabulous."