Few people know what Katie Holmes is going through right now, but Nicole Kidman is one of them.
Eleven years ago, the Australian actress was in the middle of her own divorce from Hollywood heavyweight Tom Cruise, which left her feeling like she had “nothing left to give” anyone else.
Though she is now happily married to Keith Urban, Nicole admits it took her longer than expected to get over Tom.
“I took a long time to heal, put it that way,” Nicole told The Australian Women’s Weekly during an interview last year.
“I was just very cautious. When I met Keith, for the first time in what had been quite a few years, my heart was open. And there were people before who had tried to date me and I was like, ‘No, wrong girl’.
“I just really wanted to spend time alone so I could heal and that took me almost six years, which is unusual I know, but that was just how it was. It had to do with me not having anything to give to anyone else.”
Nicole met Tom in 1989 on the set of their movie Days of Thunder and they married the following year.
They adopted two children, daughter Isabella and son Connor, and Nicole was reportedly pregnant with their first biological child when Tom filed for divorce in February 2001.
Nicole suffered a miscarriage shortly afterwards, but went on to have two daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith, with Keith Urban.
