Nicole Kidman and Keith City had been “working” on their marriage years earlier than splitting up, in accordance with the Oscar-winning actress.
Kidman, 58, opened up about their partnership in an interview for the September 2021 subject of Harper's Bazaar, telling the journal, “We're at all times working by way of stuff, however it's very a lot love-based, so there's an unlimited quantity of give and take. I would like him to have the very best life he can have, and he responds the identical means.”
She added, “We actually love parenting collectively.”
A supply confirmed to Us Weekly on Monday, September 29, that Kidman and City had separated almost twenty years after exchanging vows in Australia, the place each grew up.
Kidman first encountered City, 57, at a Los Angeles gala circa 2005. The nation singer caught her eye whereas giving a speech the place he spoke about his mom. Kidman introduced her sister, Antonia, to the occasion.
“Nicely, it doesn't get significantly better than that,” Kidman quoted Antonia saying of City.
“Yeah, however he's not gonna be taken with me,” she replied.
The Moulin Rouge! star, who had divorced Tom Cruise 4 years prior, informed Harper's Bazaar that City “really wasn't that taken with me on the time — which he now says isn't true; he was simply kind of intimidated.”
Nicole Kidman and Keith City are each natives of the land down below, however the couple met and fell in love on the opposite aspect of the world. Kidman and City first crossed paths on the G'Day USA Gala — an occasion honoring Australians in Los Angeles — in 2005. Kidman was instantly smitten with […]
Kidman recalled that 4 months after that gala, she and City linked on the telephone because of the efforts of a number of “angels” who labored “behind the scenes, serving to us hook up.”
Laughing, she confessed, “Yeah. I used to be actually, actually into him. He took a bit of time. And he's like, ‘That's so incorrect, Nicole.'”
The next yr, they tied the knot throughout an oceanside ceremony. In July 2008, they welcomed daughter Sunday Rose, born in 2008. Sunday's sister, Religion Margaret, arrived through surrogate in December 2010. (Kidman can be mother to daughter Isabella and son Connor, whom she adopted with Cruise.)
Chatting with Harper's Bazaar, Kidman addressed the media frenzy over her 2001 breakup with Cruise, 63, noting that her coronary heart turned “cautious” following the tip of their union.
“I used to be younger. I believe I provided it up?” she stated. “Perhaps I've gotten a bit extra trepidatious, however I'm at all times making an attempt to be as open as attainable. I simply desire to stay on this planet that means. I'm cautious at occasions, and I've been harm, however on the similar time I a lot desire a heat method fairly than a prickly shutdown method. My husband, Keith, says that when he met me, he stated, ‘How's your coronary heart?' And I apparently responded, ‘Open.'”
