In the October issue of Vanity Fair, Tom Cruise’s ex-wife Nicole Kidman opens up for the first time about the pain of 2 miscarriages and of being lonely following her divorce from Tom in 2001. The first miscarriage happened when she was just 23 and the second just a few weeks after Tom filed for divorce in 2001. Kidman says, “From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies. And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic. And that’s when it came that we would adopt Bella. There’s a complicated background to that, given that I never speak much about many things. One day maybe that story will be told.”
Nicole admits she was “lonely” following her divorce, and when she met her new husband Keith Urban, and tells of being alone after winning her best actress Oscar for The Hours, “You’re in a hotel and you’re like, ‘Okay, well, I’m sitting in this big suite with an Oscar and I still don’t have a life - what is wrong with me? Who do I jump on the bed with, and celebrate with, and order pancakes with?’ That was painful, not having that person to share it with.”
Of her new hubby she adds, “I would probably say that two very lonely people managed to meet at a time when they could open themselves to each other. We were a mixture of frightened and brave.”
