14 DAY TRIAL // Nicole Kidman has always been very private about her marriage to and subsequent divorce from Tom Cruise, which even prompted some to assume she was under some gag order from the Church of Scientology. Fans will be surprised to hear she’s talking about it now, with the December 2013 issue of Vanity Fair.
She is not badmouthing her famous ex in any way, though, so she still gets major points for being a lady about the fiasco that was said to have been their last years together and the divorce.
Nicole is merely comparing him to her current husband Keith Urban, with whom she has 2 adorable daughters and next to whom she manages to live a pretty much enchanted life away from the spotlight.
“I was so young. And you know, with no disrespect to what I had with Tom, I’ve met my great love now. And I really did not know if that was going to happen. I wanted it, but I didn’t want it for a while, because I didn’t want to jump from one relationship to another. I had a lot of time alone, which was really, really good, because I was a child, really, when I got married. And I needed to grow up,” Nicole says.
That’s not to say that she didn’t love Tom or that she didn’t do her utmost best at making the marriage work. Nicole recalls shooting “The Hours” during the divorce and how much she related to her Virginia Woolf character during the suicide scene.
It was the character that most made her appreciate life and, at the same time, that inspired her to want to be more, to be happier. Some time afterwards, she met Keith and they fell in love so, for Nicole, dreams do come true.
In the same VF interview, Kidman touches on the topic of fame and how she still can’t reconcile being an actress with being a celebrity.
“Having experienced extreme fame and now getting to a place where it’s not so dominating in my life, I’m always surprised when I go somewhere and people know who I am,” she says.
“[When I’m with my children] it jars me again, because they ask, ‘Why do they want a photo?’ and ‘Why is that person saying hello to you when you don’t know them?’ All of that stuff has to be explained to a five-year-old. So I see it through a different perspective,” Nicole adds.