Nicole Kidman’s Biggest Career Night Left Her Feeling Completely Alone
Nicole Kidman said the 2003 award made her realize professional success was not enough and she wanted someone to share it with.
- On Thursday, September 10, Nicole Kidman appeared on the Therapuss podcast reflecting on her 2003 Academy Award win for The Hours. Despite reaching the "pinnacle" of her career, Kidman admitted she returned home feeling "beyond lonely."
- Following her divorce from Tom Cruise after 11 years of marriage, Kidman faced personal challenges. She recalled that while her professional life was flourishing, she was struggling privately, creating stark emotional contrast.
- After the ceremony, Kidman ordered takeaway and ate on the floor with her parents at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "That's when it hit me," she said in the book, realizing she needed to find love.
- This realization became a turning point for Kidman, who eventually married country music star Keith Urban in 2006. The couple had two daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret.
- Reprising her role as Gillian Owens, Kidman is currently promoting Practical Magic 2 alongside Sandra Bullock. Her recent reflections reveal how an Oscar-winning actress balances major film projects with personal fulfillment.
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With winning her Oscar for "The Hours", she stood on the zenith of her career in 2003. But at that time Nicole Kidman was in a deep hole in private.
Australian actress Nicole Kidman has admitted that one of the biggest professional triumphs of her career was accompanied by a strong sense of loneliness. The star said that in 2003, when she won the Oscar for best actress for her role as Virginia Woolf in the film The Hours, she had no partner to share the success with. “I was at the peak of my success, and then I went home and I was so lonely,” Nicole Kidman said on Jake Shane’s Therapuss podc…
At the moment of her greatest success, Nicole Kidman felt very alone. Her Oscar victory in 2003 not only caused her pride and joy, but also a feeling of deep loneliness, the Hollywood star now reveals.
In 2003 Nicole Kidman won the greatest possible award as an actress: the Oscar. But the great luck didn't bring her the prize at the first moment - quite the opposite.
The actress recalled how one of the most important moments of her career was tarnished by her painful separation from Tom Cruise
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