We sometimes don’t know much about what takes place with Hollywood couples. We realize that the stress of what takes place behind the scenes can sometimes get to them, and it’s not out of the ordinary for a divorce to take place.
It’s hard to believe that two decades have passed since Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise got divorced. Since that time, both of their lives have changed but people still look back on their relationship and wonder what it was that could’ve caused them to split.
Kidman is fairly honest about the relationship and what she is going through down to this day. They met in 1989, before they filmed Days of Thunder, and it wasn’t long before they were married. That marriage took place on December 24, 1990 and they had two adopted children.
It wasn’t long before everybody was talking about their relationship and the media was certainly interested in what was taking place. They stayed together for a decade but then they got divorced and everybody was shocked. Kidman herself was heartbroken.
Kidman went on to marry Keith Urban in June 2006 and Tom Cruise married Katie Holmes, although they divorced in 2012.
Kidman talks about the relationship she had with Tom Cruise, opening up about some of the things that took place behind the scenes and some things that are still taking place today. She still struggles with depression and cries on a regular basis over the divorce.
Kidman opened up in an interview with BBC radio in December 2021. She talked about the depression she experienced after the divorce and how at times, she even felt like she wasn’t in her own body.
It even got worse when she played the role of Virginia Woolf, a woman who also suffered from depression. The writer eventually drowned herself and Kidman had quite a struggle when she portrayed that scene in the film.
Kidman said: “I don’t know if I ever thought of the danger, I think I was so in her. I mean, I put the rocks in my pocket and walked into the river. Over and over again. I probably don’t consider danger enough.
And I think I was in a place myself at that time that was removed, depressed, not in my own body. So the idea of Virginia coming through me, I was pretty much an open vessel for it to happen.
Depression hits you at different times. I was open to understand it, which I think is probably the beauty of life as an actor… I’ve delved and traversed many different landscapes of mental health and loss and ideas and joy and raised birth and you know, life is what it is.”