{"id":62486,"date":"2021-10-22T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womentales.com\/?p=62486"},"modified":"2021-11-29T19:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:45:40","slug":"nicole-kidman-shares-tragic-details-about-her-marriage-to-tom-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womentales.com\/nicole-kidman-shares-tragic-details-about-her-marriage-to-tom-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman Shares Tragic Details About Her Marriage to Tom Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Academy-award winner Nicole Kidman has enjoyed quite the prosperous career in recent years. But her life wasn\u2019t always easy. Her early years were marked with strife after she married superstar Tom Cruise in 1990. Though the pair were tabloid darlings, behind closed doors, their marriage was wrought with problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issues reached their peak in 2001, and Kidman and Cruise decided to divorce. Since then, the actress has kept quiet about the years she spent married to the Top Gun star. However, she\u2019s now come out with the painful truth about their relationship, and the hardships she endured during her decade-long marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Beginning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman at the racetrack in a scene from the film ‘Days of Thunder’, 1990. (Photo by Paramount Pictures\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

While Kidman may be a household name now, it wasn\u2019t always so. She got her start by performing various small, supporting roles in movies and theater productions, as well as various Australian television series, such as Vietnam in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, her big, international break came in the 1990s, when she landed the role of a young doctor who falls in love with a NASCAR driver, in the box office hit Days of Thunder. It was here where she and Tom Cruise first met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Cruise] basically swept me off my feet,\u201d Kidman would later say in a 2002 interview with Vanity Fair. \u201cI 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 \u2014 I was like, \u2018Forget it. This is it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cruise and Kidman married the same year Days of Thunder came out in theaters. They instantly became the media\u2019s favorite power couple. The public couldn\u2019t get enough of their relationship, and tabloids fervently kept track of them, scrutinizing the then fairly unknown Kidman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her career also started to take off in this period, with Kidman landing leading roles in Batman Forever, and the critically acclaimed dark comedy To Die For in 1995. The latter won her a Golden Globe, and Kidman next appeared alongside John Malkovich and Barbara Hershey in the Portrait of a Lady in 1996. However, while her professional life was at an all-time high, her personal life was nowhere near as rosy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Marriage, Children and the Church of Scientology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From the very beginning of their relationship, Cruise and Kidman faced some hurdles. Early in 1990, the Top Gun star started attending the Church of Scientology, with his first wife Mimi Rogers. The actor became a devout member, and as such, it was expected of his partners to be members as well. After she began dating Cruise, Kidman started attending the church regularly and began training to become a full-time Scientologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to some insider sources, Kidman rose high in the organization, higher than most members ever go. The church\u2019s head David Miscavige was reportedly very impressed with Kidman and encouraged her relationship with the then 28-year-old actor. He even served as the best man at their 1990 wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Miscavige lost his enthusiasm for Kidman as soon as the couple married. Cruise was head-over-heels for Kidman, so much so that he began neglecting his duties at the church. On top of that, Kidman herself began having doubts about her involvement with the organization. Since her father was a trained psychologist, she took issue with the church teaching that psychologists were \u2018oppressive people\u2019 who could harm the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miscavige was not happy about her doubts, and allegedly began a campaign of breaking up the couple. He reportedly stoked Cruise\u2019s paranoia about Nicole revealing their marital problems to non-church members. He also attempted to turn Kidman\u2019s two children against their mother, so Cruise could get full custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His efforts bore fruit, and after Kidman and Cruise divorced, her children distanced themselves from their mother. Former church member and anti-Scientologist advocate Leah Remini reported that when she asked Kidman\u2019s daughter Isabella if she saw her mother recently, the girl told her: \u201cNot if I have a choice. Our mom is a [expletive] SP [Suppressive Person].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Fertility Issues and Adoption<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Apart from religious problems, Kidman and Cruise experienced more personal issues, as well. Kidman immediately wanted to have children with Cruise after the wedding. \u201cFrom the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies,\u201d Kidman revealed to Marie Claire magazine in 2007. \u201cAnd we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kidman\u2019s first pregnancy was ectopic, meaning that the fetus developed outside the womb. Because the couple didn’t want to risk trying again, they decided to adopt. \u201cMy mother has an adopted sister, so it\u2019s been part of our family and I knew it would probably play out somewhere in mine. I didn\u2019t think that it would happen so early but it did,\u201d Kidman said in a 2007 interview with Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1993, the couple welcomed their first child, Isabella, into the family. A son, Connor would follow in 1995, completing the perfect Hollywood family. Kidman was reportedly ecstatic when she adopted her children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The period was an all-time high for Kidman and Cruise career-wise, as well. The actor landed leading roles in the blockbusters Mission: Impossible and Jerry Macguire, while Kidman enjoyed success in 1997\u2019s The Peacemaker and 1998\u2019s Practical Magic. The pair even starred together in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s infamous art-house film Eyes Wide Shut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This bliss ended abruptly in 2001 when the couple\u2019s spokesperson announced their separation. The public was shocked as the marriage seemed to be going so well. Kidman refused to speak about the reasons for her separation in detail, leaving the public to speculate about their break-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Rumors and Public Speculation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Since the couple were media darlings, the news of their divorce spread like wildfire. Since neither party wanted to speak about it in detail, media speculation was at an all-time high. One source claimed that they split because the actress wanted to live in her native Australia, while Cruise insisted on staying in the US. Others claimed it was because Kidman refused to embrace Scientology fully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real reason behind the split appeared to be the couple\u2019s fertility issues. In a 2012 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kidman revealed how badly her ectopic pregnancy affected her. \u201cI know the yearning. That yearning. It\u2019s a huge, aching yearning,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd the loss! The loss of a miscarriage is not talked about enough. That\u2019s massive grief to certain women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final blow came when the church had her adopted children distance themselves from her. Moreover, Cruise\u2019s marriage to Kati Holmes would see the actor get a biological child of his own, something he and Nicole never had. Sadly, Cruise\u2019s third marriage wouldn\u2019t last either, as he and Holmes would divorce in 2012. The rumors about the church\u2019s involvement in their split would spread once again, especially after Cruise gained full custody over his daughter, Suri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

<\/a>The Aftermath and Kidman\u2019s Life Today<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Despite the hardships, Kidman seems to have recovered. Her career experienced an all-time high after her divorce, and she received several Academy Award nominations for her performances in 2011\u2019s Rabbit Hole and 2017\u2019s The Lion. The actress appears to be thriving in her personal life as well. In 2006 she married New-Zealand born country singer Keith Urban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The couple seems to have quite the successful relationship. Barely two years after getting married, Kidman gave birth to two girls. The first daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban was born in 2008. The second, Faith Margaret Kidman Rose was born in 2010 via a surrogate. As for the adopted children she has with Cruise, Kidman has expressed her unconditional love for them. Though both children, now adults, don\u2019t associate with their mother, the actress still claims that she will always be there for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with the Australian magazine, Who, she said: \u201cNo matter what your child does, the child has love, and the child has to know there is available love and I\u2019m open here. I think that\u2019s so important because if that is taken away from a child, to sever that in any child, in any relationship, in any family \u2014 I believe it\u2019s wrong. So that\u2019s our job as a parent, to always offer unconditional love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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