Hollywood star Nicole Kidman made jaws drop with her latest revelation about her failed marriage to fellow Hollywood icon Tom Cruise.The newly single star, who surprised all with her sudden split and divorce from husband Keith Urban, got candid about her first marriage to Cruise. In her latest interview with British Vogue, Kidman revealed that she was allegedly ‘warned’ that marrying Cruise could negatively impact her acting career.
Nicole Kidman on marrying young
Opening up about taking the plunge at 23, Nicole told British Vogue “Strangely enough, I feel comfortable. Is that weird? That’s so weird.” While admitting that she ‘got married so young,’ she said, “Suddenly I was 22, 23 years old and I had this huge movie star husband. But it just seemed completely natural. We just fell madly in love, and it was that simple.”
Nicole Kidman reveals she was warned against marrying Tom Cruise
While she was at it, she recalled people warning her against marrying Cruise. She said, “I remember people saying to me, ‘OK, well this is really going to affect your career.'” Going on to reveal her resolve to wed, she said, “I’m like, ‘I don’t care. I’m in love. I want to be married.'”However, recalling the change in her professional life after the marriage, she said, “And then I was his ‘wife’ and they were like, ‘See, we told you.’” Kidman, making it clear that she was still firm on protecting her private life, brushed off the comments saying, “I’m like, ‘So what? I wasn’t meant to marry the man I love? Of course I’ll throw my career away. I don’t care.'”
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise’s relationship timeline
Kidman and Cruise met in 1989 while working on Tony Scott’s ‘Days of Thunder’, which marked Kidman’s Hollywood feature-film debut. The co-stars wed the following year, in 1990 and remained together for 11 years. They even adopted two children during their marriage.Kidman previously addressed her marriage and divorce in a 2013 interview with Vanity Fair. At the time, the actor said her age was one of the factors that shaped her relationship. “I was a child, really, when I got married. And I needed to grow up,” she said at the time.Nicole and Tom announced their separation in February 2001, with Cruise filing for divorce that same month, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.
Nicole Kidman’s career boost after divorce
Ironically, following her divorce, Kidman’s career skyrocketed, and she starred in ‘Moulin Rouge!’ and ‘The Others’, earning widespread critical acclaim, before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Virginia Woolf in ‘The Hours’. She has since, gone on to score five Oscar nominations and has also earned eighteen Golden Globe awards and won six.
