{"id":658683,"date":"2026-10-27T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658683\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:24:11","slug":"nicole-kidman-credits-ignoring-phones-for-her-stable-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658683\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman credits ignoring phones for her stable mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nicole Kidman<\/a> has admitted she is often late replying to texts and emails because she tries to limit the time she spends on her device. <\/p>\n

The 59-year-old Hollywood actor has “pretty stable mental health” because she rarely uses her phone. <\/p>\n

She spoke about her habits in an interview with Vogue Australia, in which friends and colleagues put questions to her. <\/p>\n

Her Big Little Lies co-star Shailene Woodley<\/a> was among them, and she said: “You are terrible on your phone, and I love this about you. What are you afforded in lieu of constantly being on a device?” <\/p>\n

Nicole replied: “So is she! For me, yeah, I can be late with texting, I don\u2019t check my emails all the time; I\u2019m just not that person.<\/p>\n

“But I\u2019m able to be emotionally present in my life and have a pretty stable mental health because of it. I know that I need to go be in nature, I know how to realign myself when things get really overwhelming, and the phone, for me, is not the answer.<\/p>\n

“I will choose to meditate rather than doomscroll – and I\u2019ve doomscrolled, trust me. You have to have the discipline where you go: ‘Don\u2019t do it’.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KidmanKidman says she doesn\u2019t allow her phone in the bedroom and doesn\u2019t doomscroll (AP)<\/p>\n

Nicole added: “I never have the phone in the room at night. That means I\u2019m not the number-one person responding on every group chat, and people can get upset because you\u2019re like: ‘Oh sorry, I missed the text.’<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve now learned the beauty of swiping and putting the blue dot back once you\u2019ve read the text. Because then I\u2019ll remember!” <\/p>\n

Another Big Little Lies<\/a> cast member, Alexander Skarsgard<\/a>, also took the opportunity to ask Nicole for some very practical advice. <\/p>\n

He joked: “Hi Nicole. I\u2019m in the market for a washing machine and a dryer. Would you recommend buying an integrated washer-dryer or two separate machines?” <\/p>\n

Nicole replied: “Depends on the space. If you\u2019ve got a small apartment, Alex, which I somehow feel you don\u2019t [get integrated]. Otherwise, get separate.” <\/p>\n

A more probing question came from singer Troye Sivan<\/a>, who asked the actor how she manages to get enough rest when she’s so busy working. <\/p>\n

The Oscar-winner replied: “I can lie on a bed and I can zone out. I think it\u2019s because I\u2019ve grown up on film sets where you have to learn how to wait. Sometimes you\u2019re waiting on a set for four, five hours, and it\u2019s probably some form of meditation, but I can literally just zone out and have minimal thoughts.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s weird. And that\u2019s rest in itself. My sleep is tough, because I travel a lot and I struggle with sleep \u2026 But I can sleep until five minutes before I leave.”I don\u2019t need an hour to have a coffee and wake up slowly. I can literally just jump out of bed. And I can wake up like that. [Snaps fingers.] You know how people press the snooze button? I\u2019ve never pressed the snooze button, ever”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-658683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}