she's the aussie that we all know and
love she's nicole kidman
while we've watched her grace our
screens with her beauty and talent on
screen
she's had to fight personal battles that
would seem like a nightmare come true
unfortunately for nicole it was more
than a nightmare
it was her life from a sick mother to a
marriage that crumbled into a messy
divorce for the whole world to see
who would have thought that tom cruise
would abandon his wife when she needed
him most
she may be happily married to the love
of her life today but in order for her
to get to a point in her life where she
finally felt content
nicolas had to face more hurdles than we
could have ever imagined
i mean i think it was to be completely
honest
i was uh running from my life at that
time i wasn't able to handle the reality
of my life
and as an actor you have this wonderful
thing where you can go and get lost
in somebody else's life you're watching
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for a woman who has over 80 film and tv
credits under her belt
she's not who you might think at first
glance ever since she was a young child
nicole has always been terribly shy
when she was a young girl she battled
with a stutter and her struggle to speak
led her to avoid people
i just remember everyone always saying
to me calm down
think about what you're gonna say i
remember when i was little
just being so excited to get it out and
i couldn't
i grew out of it the actress recalled
as she grew older and found a way to
tackle her anxiety
she grew out of her stutter but still
remained shy
she admitted that this trait of her
character could often come across as
misunderstood coldness
and she never means to come across as
impolite to this day
she still doesn't like going into
crowded restaurants or a party on her
own
at just the age of 17 kidman was well on
her way to fame
unfortunately her life took a tragic
turn when her mother was diagnosed with
breast cancer
nicole dropped everything to be by her
mother's side
and made sure to be there for her for
whatever she needed
it was an incredibly frightening time
for the upcoming actress
who feared for her mom's life i think
that imprinted on me for the rest of my
life
seeing her go through that pain and also
seeing her strength and her grace
gave me my commitment to this cause for
the rest of my life
hollywood can be a scary place
especially for young women
when nicole met tom cruise she didn't
just see a man she could love but a man
that could protect her too
he had already established his fame as
an actor and had made his mark as the
charming action star and heartthrob to
millions of fans
all over the world nicole was still
finding her
footing as a celebrity handling her
newfound fame when she had always been
so incredibly shy
was something she found overwhelming it
was during a viewing of the 1989
australian film
dead calm that cruz first set his eyes
on kidman
like many of nicole's fans tom was put
under the spell of her beauty
he began putting things in motion to
meet her in person to maybe cast her in
a movie
and perhaps a little more however
at the time he was in the process of
divorcing his first wife mimi rogers
finally the pair met on the set of days
of thunder in 1989
and in short kidman fell hard for her
fellow cast member
i remember being so nervous
and seeing tom cruise drive up in a
porsche i think it was and he got out of
the car and walked through and i was
like ah
my jaw dropped he basically swept me off
my feet
i fell madly passionately in love and as
happens when you fall in love
my whole plan in terms of what i wanted
for my life i was like
forget it this is it together the duo
start as romantic opposites in the 1990s
days of thunder
and once cruz's divorce from mimi went
through he married nicole that very same
year
i got married very young but it
definitely wasn't power for me
it was protection i married for love but
being married to an extremely powerful
man kept me from being sexually harassed
sadly while she saw tom as a man who
would protect her from the harsh reality
of hollywood
he was not able to protect her from
heartbreak early on in their marriage
nicole desperately wanted to become a
mother and have a big family
i was desperate to have a baby with them
i didn't care if we were married
she admitted the actress suffered from
an ectopic pregnancy
which occurs when the fertilized egg has
been implanted outside of the uterus and
can't survive
if the pregnancy continues it could
damage nearby organs and cause
life-threatening loss of blood to make
matters worse the ectopic pregnancy was
misreported by the press as a
miscarriage
it was a painful experience for nicole
and having something so personal printed
all over the tabloids for the whole
world to read felt violating
do i look that unhappy
you look tired the couple decided to
take parenthood into their own hands
and they quickly went on to adopt two
children
a daughter isabella jane cruz and a son
connor anthony
she was enjoying the bliss of motherhood
but it was followed by more bumps along
the road
nicole kidman experienced another loss
on her road towards building a family
when she had a miscarriage the loss of a
miscarriage is not talked about enough
that's massive grief to certain women
there's an enormous amount of pain
she confessed when speaking about her
experience
the very same year she suffered a
miscarriage tom filed for divorce
nicole was completely shocked and she
had no idea how to process the sudden
news
she was already in such a fragile state
from her miscarriage
and now she was going to have to mourn
the loss of her marriage too
she said in a candid and rare interview
about her marriage to tom
our life together was perfect it took me
a very long time to heal
it was a shock to my system i loved
nick very much there's no question would
you like nicole to remarry
yes i want nicole to be happy that's
what i want
cruz has always been an outspoken
believer in the religion scientology
which by definition is a religion that
offers a precise path
leading to a complete and certain
understanding of one's true spiritual
nature
and one's relationship to the supreme
being
at the start of their marriage it seemed
that nicole took an interest in the
religion
however she allegedly did so because she
felt pressured into playing the role of
a good wife her interest only lasted
about two years and she proceeded to
leave the religion after some rather
strange incidents that occurred
although it can't be confirmed it's
alleged that there were people spying on
nicole after she took a step back from
their religion
they had a spy in the house in the
relationship michael dovin
was the personal assistant to tom cruise
and he was feeding information back to
head office about
what nicole was saying about scientology
what was going on
in the relationship she was also labeled
as a suppressive person by
scientologists
this label means that the person in
question is not a good influence on the
scientologist's life and needs to be cut
out asap
supposedly the story goes leaders in
scientology
were so concerned that kidman was
pulling crews away from the religion
they began to conspire to end the
marriage something it had been rumored
they had previously done with cruz's
first wife mimi rogers
yeah when i was at the celebrity church
he wasn't around
he wasn't on services and i was told
from them that it was because nicole
kidman was an influence on him
and not a good one and not a good one
while crews had asked for shared custody
of their adopted children
it seems that both conor and isabella
had chosen to stay with their father
rather than stay with nicole they also
chose to follow their father's footsteps
when it came to religion too
nicole has previously spoken out about
her children's beliefs
saying they are adults they are able to
make their own decisions
they have made choices to be
scientologists and as a mother it's my
job to love them
nicole has always preferred to be
tight-lipped about their relationship
explaining i don't want to take away
from 11 years with that man that were
really important
really for our kids they were amidst a
lot of love
it wasn't bad and now we're amidst a
more evolved love
thankfully loneliness was not in the
cards for nicole
and four years after the messy divorce
of her first marriage
she found her great love with singer
keith urban
i swear to you she glided across the
room floated
i don't know how she did it it was out
of this world
and there was a split moment where she
wasn't with anybody and i thought
i'll just go up and say hi keith said
about the moment he first laid eyes on
nicole
we found each other in this huge world
and
we're crazy about each other you know
the couple have now been married for
about 15 years
which in hollywood terms is roughly
equivalent to 50 years
but despite their long dedicated love
for one another and successful careers
in the spotlight
the two have managed to keep their
private life well
very private but i also don't like
discussing
exes and all of that because i'm married
i'm very happily married i have
two little girls and i feel it's almost
disrespectful one to tom and
disrespectful to keith so
i try to stay in the here and now
still whenever they post about each
other on social media or attend a red
carpet event together
it's pretty clear that they were made
for each other
however just one month into their new
marriage
the couple had to face their first
seemingly impossible challenge
nicole had to stage an intervention for
keith who went on to get treatment for
addiction
and spent three months at an inpatient
facility
keith said i caused the implosion of my
fresh marriage
it survived but it's a miracle it did
for the first time in my life i could
shake off the shackles of addiction
and he went on to attribute the success
of his sobriety to nicole
who never left his side and supported
him throughout his time in rehab
keith also did his part in supporting
kidman when her father died suddenly
after suffering a fall
he has been so good to me
you know for nine years but for the last
sort of month
which has been a really tough time for
me to have when you have your partner
who just
literally carries you through a tough
time
oh nicole's mother was dealing with
terrible grief
following her husband's death they were
together for 50 years
it's awful to see so sad nicole said
about her father's passing
nicole revealed that their secret to a
happy marriage is to always make time
for one another
she said that when she's not working she
dedicates herself to her family
i'm married to a really good man and the
kids have a great father
and that's a very beautiful thing to be
able to say isn't it special to hear
couples gushing over one another
it sounds like she's finally living the
fairytale love story that she deserves
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