Goldie Hawn shares heartbreaking childhood story as she pens emotional letter to followers

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Goldie Hawn has shared the heartbreaking moment she watched a nuclear war film as an 11-year-old to share the importance of making sure today's generation of children are getting help with the COVID-19 pandemic.MORE: Goldie Hawn 'thrilled' as she updates fans on wonderful newsThe award-winning actress has been left discouraged over mental health statistics among children, particularly teenage boys, and has called on the US government to do more to help "children understand the chemical reactions that occur in their mind when they scroll through TikTok or listen to the latest horrifying statistic or headline on the evening news gives them the patience and confidence to put things in perspective".WATCH: Goldie Hawn shares wonderful news about Mind UP"My eyes were riveted to the screen, but I can remember only a few of the horrors that flashed before us: blaring sirens, cities reduced to rubble, screaming mothers with babies crying in their arms, splattered blood and camera pans over endless fields of destruction," she wrote of her memories in 1956 as a child in school watching a training film about the dangers of nuclear war."Generations of children have had to face this dread in many forms: The kids who watched the Challenger space shuttle disaster on live television in the 1980s; young people who saw America come under attack on 9/11; and particularly in the COVID-19 era, where children, their parents and their grandparents are all under real and immediate threat from a plague that has killed millions and isolated so many from the friends, family and support structures that all humans depend on for perspective, encouragement and love."MORE: Goldie Hawn supports famous daughter-in-law during emotional end of an.