{"id":592209,"date":"2026-08-13T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592209\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:14:09","slug":"nicole-kidman-was-fearful-and-vulnerable-after-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592209\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman was ‘fearful and vulnerable’ after divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicole Kidman has admitted she was “fearful and deeply vulnerable” following her divorce from Keith Urban.<\/p>\n

After 19 years of marriage, the 59-year-old Australian actress split from her country singer husband, 58, last year, before their divorce was finalised in January.<\/p>\n

Kidman has now spoken about her marriage breakdown, explaining that her life has now taken a different route than she expected.<\/p>\n

Speaking to British Vogue, she admitted she had faced a difficult year.<\/p>\n

\"Keith<\/p>\n

She said: “There was a point where I was very fearful and deeply vulnerable which is exposing. And then at the same time (I’m) going, ‘Well, I can either really not confront it and just curl up, or I can just go forward with an enormous amount of hope\u2019.”<\/p>\n

The actress added: “At the same time, I\u2019m like, \u2018OK, I didn\u2019t expect this. I had a different view of what my life was going to be, but this is what it is now\u2019,” she said.<\/p>\n

“You make all these plans, and you have all these ideas of what it\u2019s all going to be like and then it\u2019s\u2026 not. You have to adjust. You adapt.<\/p>\n

“The future, it\u2019s completely unknown to me right now.”<\/p>\n

Kidman went on to say she tackled both her personal and professional life with a “feelings first” approach.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s just who I am. I don\u2019t overthink things and I\u2019m probably not that analytical. I\u2019m far more feeling-centred and I lead with my heart. I just go, \u2018OK, what do I feel here? I\u2019ll give it a go\u2019. It throws people, because I think they think I\u2019ll be far more measured and I\u2019m not,” she said.<\/p>\n

\"Nicole<\/p>\n

“I can still approach things intellectually, but my desire is not to be ruled by my head.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve always wanted to live a well-examined life, so what does that entail? Trying things, making mistakes, failing, getting back up, moving on, embracing love, staying open, keeping the heart open and the possibilities.”<\/p>\n

In the interview the actress also spoke about her first marriage to Tom Cruise – who she was married to from 1990 until 2001.<\/p>\n

She said: “I got married so young. 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.”<\/p>\n

However, she recalled some people warning her the marriage would “affect” her career.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m like, \u2018I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m in love. I want to be married.\u2019 And then I was his \u2018wife\u2019 and they were like, \u2018See, we told you.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018So what? I wasn\u2019t meant to marry the man I love? Of course I\u2019ll throw my career away. I don\u2019t care\u2019,” she added.<\/p>\n

Throughout her career Kidman has won an Academy Award, Bafta, six Golden Globe Awards and two Emmys.<\/p>\n

Rising to fame in the 1983 Australian film BMX Bandits, she went on to star in Practical Magic, Moulin Rouge!, and The Hours, as well as also appearing in the TV series Big Little Lies, The Undoing and Nine Perfect Strangers.<\/p>\n

She and Urban met in Los Angeles in 2005 and were married in Sydney the following year.<\/p>\n

They had two daughters together – Sunday Rose, 18, and Faith, 15.<\/p>\n

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