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It was 1989 when Nicole Kidman first met Tom Cruise on a beach in Florida when her career started to take off. She was promoting her movieDead Calmwhen she caught the attention of screenwriter Robert Towne.
It was Towne who first showed her film to Cruise. And both he and Tom Cruise were so impressed by her performance, and rightfully so, that they went on to recruit her as the leading lady opposite theTop Gunstar inDays of Thunder.
This began a whirlwind romance between the co-stars, and they married each other a year later in 1990, a few months after Cruise’s divorce was finalized with his first wife Mimi Rogers. However, it was during this time that Nicole Kidman almost made the worst mistake of her life, which would continue to haunt her for the rest of her life.
Nicole Kidman almost made the worst mistake of her life after being swept off her feet by Tom Cruise
According toNicole Kidman, she had just left the States for Tokyo to promote her movieDead Calmwhen she received a call thatTom Cruisewanted to meet her. Kidman, who was a fan of the actor, was astonished that one of the biggest stars of the time, whose films she grew up watching, wanted to meet her.
The initial meet-cute left her head over heels in love with Tom Cruise, and the emotions only intensified as time went on. TheBig Little Liesstar narrated that she was“madly, passionately in love,”to the point that she was ready to derail her plans for the future to pursue the romance. In an interview withVanity Fair, she noted,
I was consumed by it, willingly. And I was desperate to have a baby with him. I didn’t care if we were married. That’s what I wish I’d done.
However, life had other plans for the pair. They did get married, and the actress eventually became pregnant. Unfortunately, she went through a miscarriage shortly after, which led to themadopting their first child, Isabella Jane Cruise in 1993, and Connor Cruise in 1995.
The tabloids, however, were not exactly kind to her, especially during the initial years of her marriage to theMission Impossiblestar. Especially with people assuming that she was just getting the roles due to her husband’s connections, her self-worth began crumbling.
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Things began to change for her with her powerful appearances in the 1995To Die For, andPortrait of a Ladyin 1996.Stanley Kubrick’sEyes Wide Shutalso brought forth a huge change in her life and marriage with Tom Cruise.
And just two years after the movie’s release, and after her second miscarriage, the couple ended up divorcing. Kidman was apparently shocked by the ordeal. Director Baz Luhrmann, who was working with her forMoulin Rougeat the time narrated the incident saying,
She said, ‘I’ve broken up with Tom’ or Tom’s breaking up with me.’ She told me there were helicopters flying over the house, and she was genuinely devastated and shocked.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were one of the most high-profile celebrity couples of their time, and the tabloids once again had a field day speculating the reason behind their sudden and very public split.
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Their children, although, decided to stay with their father at the time, were seen accompanying Kidman in various functions. The visits allegedly stopped sometime soon after, and the actress hasn’t been seen with them in almost 16 years according toDaily Mail.
Tom Cruise only maintains a strong relationship with his and Nicole Kidman’s children
The main reason behind this is speculated to be their connections to the Church of Scientology. This is also speculated to be one of the main reasons behind their split in 2001. In fact, all three of Tom Cruise’s divorces are thought to be due to his utmost devotion to the controversial religion.
Cruise hasn’t been seen with his youngest daughter Suri Noelle, in more than a decade. During a trial for a defamation case in 2012, which he filed against a media outlet that accused him of“abandoning”his daughter, he allegedly admitted in court that his religion played a part in his split fromKatie Holms, Suri Noelle’s mother.
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Holmes allegedly did not want to raise her daughter in an environment where Scientology played such a huge part. Although the father and daughter duo were seen together a few times after this, those visitations, too, stopped.
Cruise’s only public relationship with his childrenhappens to be with the ones he shares with Nicole Kidman, namely Isabella Jane Cruise, and Connor Cruise. They also happen to be members of the Church of Scientology.
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Nicole Kidman also has two other children with husband Keith Urban whom she married in 2006. She said in an interview withMarie Claire Australiathat she loves being a mother in 2021, so not having a stronger bond with her first two children must be tragic for theLionactress.
Anushree Banerjee
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Anushree Banerjee is an Anime Writer at FandomWire with over 550 published articles. She has a post-grad in English and years of experience working with some of the biggest companies on the pop culture, and anime scene, such as, Sportskeeda, Pinkvilla, and MovieWeb. Staying on top of everything anime consumes her days, while bingeing on everything horror, and thriller keeps her up at night. Be it superhero flicks from Marvel and DC, or Shonen, and Seinen, like Bleach, The Apothecary Diaries, and Attack on Titan, she can probably state facts about them faster than she can recite her home address.
