Speaking her truth. Nicole Kidman, who rarely speaks about her adopted children with ex-husband Tom Cruise, spoke up about their relationship in a recent interview.
Nicole Kidman attends the premiere of Focus Features’ ‘Boy Erased’ at Directors Guild Of America on October 29, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images
“I’m very private about that,” she told Australia’s Who magazine on Thursday, November 8, regarding her daughter Isabella, 25, and son Connor, 23. “I have to protect all those relationships. I know 150 percent that I would give up my life for my children because it’s what my purpose is.”
Kidman, who has had a strained relationship with her adopted children, who remain with their father following the couple’s 2001 divorce, said she still loves them completely.
“They are adults. They are able to make their own decisions. They have made choices to be Scientologists and, as a mother, it’s my job to love them,” she explained. “And I am an example of that tolerance and that’s what I believe — that no matter what your child does, the child has love and the child has to know there is available love and I’m open here. I think that’s so important because if that is taken away from a child, to sever that in any child, in any relationship, in any family — I believe it’s wrong. So that’s our job as a parent, to always offer unconditional love.”
Actors Nicole Kidman poses for photographers in a central London hotel following a BAFTA Q&A, for the film, Lion, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
The Boy Erased actress and Cruise, 56, were married from 1990 to 2001. She previously discussed Isabella and Connor with Extra in January 2013. “I think everybody has their own path and when they find their path, it’s such relief as a parent,” she told at the time.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise at the ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Premiere in Los Angeles, California on September 9, 1999. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Although the Oscar winner remains concerned for Isabella and Connor, Scientology specialist Tony Ortega told Us in October that the siblings are “full-fledged Scientologists and very much under the influence and guidance of their father.”
Kidman married Keith Urban in 2006, and they have two kids, Sunday, ten, and Faith, seven.
We have reached out to the Church of Scientology for comment.
