Nicole Kidman Talks About Her Trip To Hell & Back!
In this Sunday’s issue of Parade magazine Nicole Kidman dishes about how she’s “raw and emotional” and cries just thinking about her new baby. On the flip side, she also reveals how she went to “hell and back” when it came to hubby Keith Urban’s alcohol addiction and trip to rehab.
Here’s some highlights from the provocative interview:
As a new mother to daughter Sunday Rose, Kidman has reacted intensely with “whatever that primal thing is, the need and desire to keep her very protected.”
“People say, Oh, it would be so much easier if you¹d just let them get a photo of her. And I can’t. I’m like, I don’t want to. I want her to stay out of that. Maybe that will wane as she gets bigger, and I’ll be easier with it. But for now, I’m still keeping her in a bubble. I cry even thinking of her. But they are tears of joy. Because I suppose I never thought I would get to have it. To have been given it so late in life.”
Kidman and ex-husband Tom Cruise share custody of their adopted children and, as she confirms, they were raised in Scientology. However, when the subject comes up, Kidman stiffens.
“I just don’t talk about it,” she says. “Bella and Connor are 15 and 13, so we’ve taken them, Tom and I, almost into their adult life. To then have a birth child that I have to take into adult life, give her her wings, it’s a big purpose. I know my place. Put it that way.”
Uh, that was an awkward answer! Not sure how to interpret that one…
Four months after her 2006 wedding to country singer Urban, he checked himself into rehab.
“We were thrown into his alcohol problem three months into the marriage, and that was big,” she says. “We became the closest we could become, because we had to bare our souls. We did 10 years of marriage in three months. You go to hell and back with this when the addiction takes control of the life, it’s terrifying. But there is hope, and we work on it every day, and we are in a place of actual peace right now, which is a beautiful place. I love him so deeply, and he has done an amazing amount of work, and he is an amazing husband, and I am just very, very grateful.”
Finally, Kidman says that Sunday Rose looks like her dad. “I’m glad, because when he goes on tour, I say to him that he leaves a little bit of him with me.”
Aw, how sweet!