Appearing on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on Aug. 2, 2001, Kidman was in the middle of her highly publicized divorce from Cruise when the late-night host opened the interview with a blunt question.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I heard you’re getting divorced, how’s that going?” he asked<\/a> at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n NICOLE KIDMAN FILES FOR DIVORCE FROM KEITH URBAN CITING ‘MARITAL DIFFICULTIES’<\/a><\/p>\n Nicole Kidman’s divorce from Keith Urban has people talking about an old joke she made about her divorce from Tom Cruise. (Kevin Mazur Archive\/WireImage)<\/p>\n Letterman remarked that her appearance on the show was a good sign things were “all right,” to which she responded with a half-smile, telling him “I’d probably still be here” even if they weren’t.<\/p>\n When asked whether people were constantly bringing up her breakup, the Oscar-winning actress admitted, “Um, yeah, I get a lot of questions.”<\/p>\n Kidman\u2019s next six-word quip left the audience cheering \u2014 and fans are still buzzing years later.<\/p>\n With a sly smile and a pause, Kidman delivered, “Well, I can wear heels now.”<\/p>\n Nicole Kidman was famously married to Tom Cruise for more than a decade.\u00a0 (Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic)<\/p>\n The audience erupted in applause, and even Letterman laughed. “Let\u2019s move on,” Kidman said. “Now we move on.”<\/p>\n Kidman joined Letterman at the time to promote her horror film, “The Others.”\u00a0<\/p>\n NICOLE KIDMAN AND KEITH URBAN’S MARRIAGE BREAKDOWN ‘HASN’T BEEN A SECRET’ AMONG INNER CIRCLE: REPORT<\/a><\/p>\n Letterman went on to make cheeky remarks during the interview, as Kidman and the late-night host continued to trade playful banter.<\/p>\n “Things are fine. It\u2019s fine,” Kidman said, brushing off her high-profile split with Cruise. Then, with a smirk, she threw it back to Letterman: “How was your divorce?”<\/p>\n Clips of the 2001 interview have sparked fan reaction on social media<\/a>, with users making the comment, “Good. I’ve been missing her excellent taste in shoes.”<\/p>\n Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman met on the set of 1990’s “Days of Thunder.” (Vinnie Zuffante)<\/p>\n Before marrying Urban in 2006, Kidman was famously married to Cruise for more than a decade. The two met on the set of “Days of Thunder” in 1989, married the following year and adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, before splitting in 2001.<\/p>\n The interview clip has resurfaced online following news that Kidman and Urban<\/a> have called it quits after 19 years of marriage.<\/p>\n On Sept. 30, Kidman filed for divorce from Urban. She cited “irreconcilable differences” and ongoing “marital difficulties,” according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n Kidman listed Sept. 30 as the couple\u2019s date of separation.<\/p>\n In the filing, the “Big Little Lies” star asked to be named the primary residential parent of the couple\u2019s two daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret.<\/p>\n The country star stepped back into the spotlight just days after the curtain dropped on his marriage to the Hollywood actress.<\/p>\n LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n Kidman listed Sept. 30 as the couple\u2019s date of separation. (Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n In his first concert after Kidman filed for divorce, the country superstar<\/a> took the stage in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 2 with a show full of surprises, one being the absence of Maggie Baugh, a guitarist for Urban who has been thrust into the narrative of his split from Kidman.<\/p>\n The guitarist has recently been in the spotlight after a video began circulating that shows Urban changing a lyric in his song “The Fighter,” originally written for Kidman, to name Baugh during a September concert.<\/p>\n Maggie Baugh, seen playing with Keith Urban here, has been getting attention for her on-stage interactions with the country star. (Amy E. Price\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n It has been noted that Urban often changes these particular lyrics. “The Fighter” was originally recorded as a duet with Carrie Underwood<\/a>, and when the two performed the song at the 2017 CMT Music Awards, he sang her name instead of “baby.”<\/p>\n![\"Nicole](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nicole-kidman-tom-cruise-oscars-1997.jpg\")
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