In Australia to promote Moulin Rouge, Nicole Kidman says she’ll never divulge the details on her split with Tom Cruise.
“I haven’t up until now and I’m not going to,” insists the beauty. “It’s really private. I wouldn’t respect somebody if I saw them on TV talking about all their kind of personal stuff, so I’m really holding back.”
Nicole wants to keep the matter private partly to protect the couple’s two adopted children. “There’s more than myself involved, there’s more than Tom involved,” Nicole told Australia’s Channel Nine. “There’s Isabella and Conor, and then there’s our extended families, and I am really just saying no. Part of me doesn’t know how to deal with this. I’ve been thrown into a fishbowl which I used to share with somebody.”
The Eyes Wide Shut stunner flew Down Under late on Friday and is enjoying her homecoming. “Yeah I feel it, I really feel it, and I feel it just coming home now and walking in the street,” she said. “Even the photographers sent me flowers!”
The 33-year-old actress appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s top-rated US chat show last week, promoting the Baz Luhrmann directed musical while fielding the inevitable queries into her personal life. But her confident demeanour and composure faltered when the topic of Tom came up. “I think that divorce is hard for anyone,” she told Oprah. “It’s a nightmare, it just is, and you can pretend you’re fine. And days you’re great and days you’re not great.”
When asked if a reconciliation might be in the cards, Nicole seemed doubtful, and then commented on the situation: “I’ve had a blessed life. I’ve always thought ‘something bad is going to happen, something bad is going to happen’. But then something really bad happened. A number of really bad things happened. You go, ‘I’m dealing with it. I’m stronger than I thought.’ Ultimately that’s where wisdom comes from doesn’t it?”
Moulin Rouge opened on Friday in select US cities and is scheduled to hit UK screens in August.
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