Actress Nicole Kidman has spoken about the pain caused by her divorce from Tom Cruise. On a British chat show she revealed that the split had “left her shaken”, but that she had now moved on and would love to get married again.
Speaking to veteran journalist Michael Parkinson, the striking star of Moulin Rouge admitted that the break-up had left her shaken, but her children Isabella and Connor had helped to keep her going. “You have two kids and there’s times when you say, ‘I just want to curl up in a ball and never get out of bed’, she said. “Then you have a six-year-old coming in and going, ‘Where’s breakfast?’”
“I didn’t expect it to happen to me,” continued the Australian actress. “and it has. Everyone keeps asking me, ‘How are you?’ Divorce is divorce and it’s a tough thing to go through. But I’d love to get married again.”
Nicole spoke warmly of the decade spent with Hollywood’s most powerful actor. “You’re in a fishbowl and all of those things but you also only have each other. So you sort of have this cocoon, bubble, that you exist in and that’s quite romantic. We would go to Rome and he wouldn’t walk down the street in the day because of people coming up. So we would see cities at night. We’d break out of the hotel room and run around at 3am. We broke into the Coliseum – climbed the fences and broke in. It’s a way of dealing with being really well known, but still being able to see a city like Rome.”
Speculation is mounting as to whom Nic, as Tom used to call her, is currently stepping out with. An American magazine has linked her with Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz, and a British newspaper has got tongues wagging, with the revelation that Robbie Williams paid the film star a midnight visit at the Dorchester Hotel, where she was staying.
The two have recorded a version of the classic song Somethin’ Stupid, which is a frontrunner for the Christmas Number One, and Nicole was present at the former Take That singer’s Royal Albert Hall show last week. Robbie had invited his singing partner to perform live at the gig, but she pulled out citing shyness as the reason. But after recording the Parkinson show, Nicole dashed back to her hotel, where Robbie later joined her.
A spokeswoman for the singer confirmed that Robbie spent time in Nicole’s hotel room. “They are friends and they were hanging out,” she said.
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