Nicole Kidman Has Finally Opened Up About The Pain She Suffered During Her Marriage To Tom Cruise

Nicole Kidman may be beautiful and talented, but her life hasn’t always been easy. After marrying Tom Cruise, the actress went through a lot of problems she kept hidden – until she decided to finally spill the beans. Now, Kidman has spoken out, and she’s revealed just how painful her relationship with Cruise really was.

Speaking out

For ages, Kidman gave fans no clue she’d been dealing with some difficult memories. And her career has skyrocketed since divorcing Cruise. Soon after the separation, she won Best Actress at the 2002 Oscars. She also scooped a Golden Globe in 2018. Her personal life has gone from strength to strength, too, after her marriage to Keith Urban.

Nicole and Keith

By all appearances, Kidman and Urban have a successful relationship – judging by how affectionate the pair are in public, anyway! And the country singer is consistently supportive of his wife. After Big Little Lies turned out to be a massive hit, Urban told the Australian talk show Sunrise how glowingly proud he was of his other half.

Movie star marriage

But it wasn’t always that way. Before she married Urban, Kidman was with Cruise – and he was very much the more famous of the pair. In fact, it was the Top Gun star who gave the actress one of her big breaks with the movie Days of Thunder. After watching Kidman in 1989’s Dead Calm, Cruise convinced the Thunder producers to cast her as his love interest in the film. How handy!

Days of Thunder

Days of Thunder came out in 1990, and that same year, Kidman and Cruise were married. Talk about a whirlwind romance! “[Cruise] basically swept me off my feet,” Kidman would remark in a 2002 interview with Vanity Fair. “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.’”