All the actress could do at the time was say "thank you."

Goldie Hawn’s first interaction with Elvis Presley was memorable, to say the least — and not just because she was in the presence of the King of Rock & Roll.

While appearing on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday (Nov. 10), the actress opened up about crossing paths with Presley while rehearsing Laugh-In many decades ago at NBC Studios. “I remember I was wearing a purple wool jumpsuit, and I went over to him and I said hi,” Hawn began.

“He took my hair and went, ‘You look like a chicken that’s just been hatched,'” she said, making Jennifer Hudson’s jaw drop. “I said, ‘Oh, thank you.'”

A few years later, Hawn would headline a residency at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, where Presley was kind enough to invite her to stay in his private suite. “He didn’t let a lot of people back there,” she recalled to Hudson. “But me and my daddy [Edward Rutledge Hawn], we stayed in his big suite. … I was there for three weeks.…