Nicole Kidman's panic: I've lost my baby girl

The Aussie actress is devastated as ex-husband Tom Cruise chooses a Scientology prodigy for their teenage daughter’s first love.

The controversial religion almost cost her everything. But more than a decade after her devastating divorce from Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman thought she’d finally escaped the clutches of Scientology. Having re-embraced her Catholicism and started a whole new family, Nicole had found happiness leading the simple life on a Nashville farm with Aussie husband Keith Urban and their gorgeous girls, Sunday Rose, 3, and one-year-old Faith Margaret.

However, last week Nicole was dealt a fresh blow when her and Tom’s daughter Isabella debuted her boyfriend, Eddie Frencher, a junior Scientologist who Woman’s Day can reveal has been hailed as a “prophet” within the organisation. Insiders tell us the young lovebirds are “very serious” about each other – and, in shocking news, Tom and the mysterious Scientologist elders are encouraging the couple to marry so they can be installed as future leaders of the cult.

“Nicole is absolutely beside herself,” reveals a close family friend who regularly spends time with the actress and her mum Janelle. “What should have been a heart-warming tale of her daughter’s first love has turned sour. Nicole can only look on helplessly as the relationship ties Bella deeper and deeper into Scientology. She desperately wants her little girl to have a normal life and had secretly hoped her daughter would rebel against whatever weird master plan was made for her.

“But it’s almost as if Bella’s under the Scientology spell, much like Nicole was during her marriage, and Nic can’t help but feel it’s a case of history repeating itself.” Adding to Nicole’s horror is a complete sense of helplessness.