“I was crying into the American flag – that I was knitting, by the way – (and) trying to figure out what I could do,” Hawn recalled to CNN in a phone conversation on Tuesday. The Oscar-winning actor and advocate for children’s mental health first recognized the need to help kids learn how to process their emotions more than 20 years ago, as she was reeling in the aftermath of the events of 9/11 and saw distress among children. Goldie Hawn is in a hurry to help end America’s mental health crisis, but the fight is not new to her.
