They were seen as the world’s most perfect couple – until Tom Cruise shocked the world, and his wife, by walking out.
Now, 11 years later, Nicole Kidman has reflected on her utter ‘shock’ at her split from Cruise.
‘I thought our life together was perfect,’ the actress told DuJour magazine, admitting she was blindsided by the actor’s decision to end their ten-year union.
‘It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.’
Strike a pose: Nicole Kidman shows off her slim figure in a white trouser suit as she poses for DuJour magazine
The Australian actress claims the pair had a happy marriage.
‘We were in a bubble, just the two of us. We became very dependent on one another.’
Nicole, who is now happily married to country star Keith Urban, married the Hollywood superstar when she was just 23.
‘I was reeling with Tom,’ she now says. ‘I would have gone to the ends of the earth for him…. I was totally smitten – I fell madly, passionately in love.’
But the 45-year-old admits: ‘I was so impulsive and naive.’
Time to move on: Nicole Kidman reclines in her silk pajamas by a swimming pool as she reflects on her relationship with Tom Cruise in DuJour magazine
Nicole says her life has recovered and she is happier than ever.
‘I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my life,’ she tells DuJour.
‘I’m living in a friend’s house in Nice [to film a biopic of Princess Grace Of Monaco]. My two daughters are with me, Sunday Rose, who’s four, and Faith Margaret, who’s two.
‘My mother is about to fly in from Australia to babysit. Then Keith will be arriving… My family is with me. My family.’
Blue eyed girl: Nicole discusses everything from how dependent she was on Tom Cruise to how she finds happiness in her life today
And Nicole says they spend as much time together as they can.
‘My life changed. He is a wonderful, caring man and he makes me feel secure. We don’t ever like to be separated.’
The pair have built a family together, something Nicole, who adopted children Bella and Connor with Tom, called a ‘healing experience’.
Nicole Kidman
‘We have a wonderful home life,’ she said. ‘There’s always music. Keith plays the guitar and piano and drums.
‘He’s always composing music.
‘It’s lovely when you have a baby who picks up the drumsticks and plays, wearing angel wings.’
As they were: Nicole with ex-husband Tom Cruise in 2000; the pair were married for a decade
