Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban split

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Anonymous wrote:Good article, men have mid life changes as do women and maybe he did get tired of being her supporter and her absences. The pictures are interesting

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/nicole-kidman-keith-urban-split-breakup-reason-80f0rp70c

Egads, his hair.

His hair has been terrible for years. Maybe if he's having a late mid life crisis he'll get a haircut.

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Anonymous wrote:For many years into her career I never sensed any true warmth in Nicole Kidman. She can be charming and engaging but true warmth? Not so sure. If you look at older pictures of her she often has a striking, aggressive stare....and she was often not smiling. I think there is an intensity there that she covers over and I actually wonder if this is probably more of who she is. I've also always wondered about her desire to play psychopathic characters, she's played a few. I may get laughed off the board, but I don't think she is quite right. And the announcement coming on a Monday versus a Friday as well as the statement that she did not want this and he left her suggests she may be feeling vindictive.

Right - the fact that she abandoned the children she adopted shows this.

She didn’t abandon them at all. They belong to a creepy cult that taught them from the day they were born that they had to shun anyone who left the cult. That’s very different and heartbreaking.

They separated in 2001, and their children were still very young at the time. Years later, she publicly stated they’d chosen not to live with her, but they were under age 10 at the time of the divorce.

This particular cult is known for threatening, harassing, and harming people who leave. We will never know what was going on behind the scenes. Their father likely poisoned them against her when she left, and that’s a powerful influence. I don’t know Nicole Kidman and, unlike a lot of people on this thread, I don’t feel like I can judge her as a parent. But I’ve always thought that situation with her other kids was not her doing.

So she willingly and knowingly brought those kids into a cult and then walked away without so much as a fight. She didn’t even try.

I never thought she even wanted those kids.

It's always seemed weird to me, that she was seemingly able to walk away from being their mother. As PP noted, would she do that with her two girls with Urban?

I think you have no idea to to speculate is really awful

That's what we're all doing here??

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Anonymous wrote:I think she's a very complicated person beneath the persona and I think there are probably some unsavory, difficult aspects to her personality. She's probably like a Joan Crawford or a Bette Davis....difficult and lives for being "an actress" and ARTIST. Just an intuition. Additionally, she said she was blindsided with Cruise divorce as well. She uses her PR machine like a pro after decades in the business and she learned it from Cruise and has honed it to top levels ever since. That's in part why she appears stilted and brittle as a pp said. Because part of her is and additionally she is highly controlled and guarded, like actresses were in the days where they were under the studios. It's just looks like a lot of bullsh*t, lots of energy spent being a celebrity but then in interviews scoffs about how she is an artist...can't imagine living with someone this self absorbed. Maybe he just got tired of it or became involved with someone available and real.

I think there's a lot of truth to this. But not in any way abusive, I think she's incredibly loving to her family (except for being away nonstop and now whatever the break was with KU). I think she's insatiable to the point of a debilitating mental illness and probably narcissistic. She's mentioned in interviews the constant yearning and therefore never satisfied, despite enormous success (and probably unbearable sadness that so many of her projects were clunkers). She says she "feels things deeply." It presents as her being a workaholic but I think it's much deeper (and worse) and makes her actually extremely needy to those around her and ultimately very hard to love. She's also taken the death of her parents extremely hard.
I'm disappointed her PR is working so hard to get ahead of the story. I would have expected the "quiet" separate lives rather than her media blitz while he's on tour and had a concert last night (and coming here next week, BTW).
And that's my opinion coming from a fan of both of them.

Yes...she has done interviews where she said she "tricked her body" into believing she was actually ill like the character and that for months after a film she was in a type of haze and could not respond to her own name. ??? I think she blurs reality ( perhaps a lot) and immerses herself in roles in a way that is not typical...she and her people frame this as her devotion to her art but it sounds more intense, masochistic and actually sort of dissociative, beyond " method". I think she has issues yes. Her hyperattunement and need to modify the body to such extremes is another bad sign.

I have no idea if any of those rumors about her father being accused of sexual abuse are true but maybe there was trauma in the family. Who knows? There's an interview on you tube of her profiled in a kind of 60 minutes Australia news show from the 80's and it was pretty obvious she did some intense nude/sexual scenes in an early movie even as a teen. Now she's letting her minor daughter model...it just gives the ick. And some, actually many of her roles are ick/disturbing too....why would a person be drawn to those very dark themes she has played ( ie matricide in The Others, psychopathy in Malice, To Die For and others) if it did not touch on something familiar? I don't think she's the healthiest person and I have thought that for a long time. She seems like she could be a trauma survivor to me.

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Anonymous wrote:For many years into her career I never sensed any true warmth in Nicole Kidman. She can be charming and engaging but true warmth? Not so sure. If you look at older pictures of her she often has a striking, aggressive stare....and she was often not smiling. I think there is an intensity there that she covers over and I actually wonder if this is probably more of who she is. I've also always wondered about her desire to play psychopathic characters, she's played a few. I may get laughed off the board, but I don't think she is quite right. And the announcement coming on a Monday versus a Friday as well as the statement that she did not want this and he left her suggests she may be feeling vindictive.

Right - the fact that she abandoned the children she adopted shows this.

She didn’t abandon them at all. They belong to a creepy cult that taught them from the day they were born that they had to shun anyone who left the cult. That’s very different and heartbreaking.

DO. She didn’t go to court and fight for custody, more less visitation. Yeah, she abandoned them and used the religion as an excuse to a judge would have granted visitation and she could have nurtured her relationship regardless of Scientology. And if Tom or Scientology had interfered with that relationship, a judge would have given her custody. She didn’t even try.

This always did seem odd. Katie Holmes sure managed to keep her kid with Tom Cruise.

Katie learned from what happened to Nicole and she was smart about getting her ducks in a row. She clearly was smart about not giving up anything blackmail worthy on the sessions she had, and she kept receipts to use against them and Tom. When Nicole was married to him, that was before all the Leah remini and other exposes. I remember thinking they were weird but having no idea about the machine. They clearly had stuff on her and would have at least destroyed her career. So one could say she chose her career over the kids, but it’s unclear — maybe they were threatening something worse than just career destructions. Now that her kids are grown and she has so much power, wish she’d just be honest about what happened — what can they do to her at this point?

Why is it your business.

This is such a stupid comment. Why are you even reading a thread on a celeb couple if you are going to make inane comments like this? If that’s your thinking, nothing on this forum is any of your business.

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* correction, not matricide, fillicide

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I wonder if their modeling now has anything to do with it too. I never saw him being ecstatic about thay choice

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I don't understand why she continues her professional collaborations with Balenciaga.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/nov/29/balenciaga-apologises-for-ads-featuring-bondage-bears-and-child-abuse-papers

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if their modeling now has anything to do with it too. I never saw him being ecstatic about thay choice

I don’t think we can assume what he does or does not approve of there. Not his world, so of course mom would take them to those kinds of events.

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Anonymous wrote:For many years into her career I never sensed any true warmth in Nicole Kidman. She can be charming and engaging but true warmth? Not so sure. If you look at older pictures of her she often has a striking, aggressive stare....and she was often not smiling. I think there is an intensity there that she covers over and I actually wonder if this is probably more of who she is. I've also always wondered about her desire to play psychopathic characters, she's played a few. I may get laughed off the board, but I don't think she is quite right. And the announcement coming on a Monday versus a Friday as well as the statement that she did not want this and he left her suggests she may be feeling vindictive.

Right - the fact that she abandoned the children she adopted shows this.

She didn’t abandon them at all. They belong to a creepy cult that taught them from the day they were born that they had to shun anyone who left the cult. That’s very different and heartbreaking.

DO. She didn’t go to court and fight for custody, more less visitation. Yeah, she abandoned them and used the religion as an excuse to a judge would have granted visitation and she could have nurtured her relationship regardless of Scientology. And if Tom or Scientology had interfered with that relationship, a judge would have given her custody. She didn’t even try.

This always did seem odd. Katie Holmes sure managed to keep her kid with Tom Cruise.

Katie learned from what happened to Nicole and she was smart about getting her ducks in a row. She clearly was smart about not giving up anything blackmail worthy on the sessions she had, and she kept receipts to use against them and Tom. When Nicole was married to him, that was before all the Leah remini and other exposes. I remember thinking they were weird but having no idea about the machine. They clearly had stuff on her and would have at least destroyed her career. So one could say she chose her career over the kids, but it’s unclear — maybe they were threatening something worse than just career destructions. Now that her kids are grown and she has so much power, wish she’d just be honest about what happened — what can they do to her at this point?

Why is it your business.

This is such a stupid comment. Why are you even reading a thread on a celeb couple if you are going to make inane comments like this? If that’s your thinking, nothing on this forum is any of your business.

PP specifically said “I wish shes go public with what really happened”. Why is that her business? Why MUST she give a play by play of what truly happened with Cruise and her adopted children to satisfy the public. Why.

I never said no one should speculate or post in threads. Moron.

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Anonymous wrote:For many years into her career I never sensed any true warmth in Nicole Kidman. She can be charming and engaging but true warmth? Not so sure. If you look at older pictures of her she often has a striking, aggressive stare....and she was often not smiling. I think there is an intensity there that she covers over and I actually wonder if this is probably more of who she is. I've also always wondered about her desire to play psychopathic characters, she's played a few. I may get laughed off the board, but I don't think she is quite right. And the announcement coming on a Monday versus a Friday as well as the statement that she did not want this and he left her suggests she may be feeling vindictive.

Right - the fact that she abandoned the children she adopted shows this.

She didn’t abandon them at all. They belong to a creepy cult that taught them from the day they were born that they had to shun anyone who left the cult. That’s very different and heartbreaking.

DO. She didn’t go to court and fight for custody, more less visitation. Yeah, she abandoned them and used the religion as an excuse to a judge would have granted visitation and she could have nurtured her relationship regardless of Scientology. And if Tom or Scientology had interfered with that relationship, a judge would have given her custody. She didn’t even try.

This always did seem odd. Katie Holmes sure managed to keep her kid with Tom Cruise.

Katie learned from what happened to Nicole and she was smart about getting her ducks in a row. She clearly was smart about not giving up anything blackmail worthy on the sessions she had, and she kept receipts to use against them and Tom. When Nicole was married to him, that was before all the Leah remini and other exposes. I remember thinking they were weird but having no idea about the machine. They clearly had stuff on her and would have at least destroyed her career. So one could say she chose her career over the kids, but it’s unclear — maybe they were threatening something worse than just career destructions. Now that her kids are grown and she has so much power, wish she’d just be honest about what happened — what can they do to her at this point?

Her dad was also a divorce attorney. I thought he played a key role in making sure ducks were in a row. Getting her burner phones etc etc. I hope she writes a book one day, after TC has passed. Read one of the books about Scientology. You won’t blame Nicole. I guess she could have stayed in the church but it seems hard to pretend like that with these people.

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She filed for divorce, thinks he cheated. One thing I will say—wives really should be with their husbands on tour. For the sake of the marriage. Too many temptations, especially if a man is feeling neglected.

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Anonymous wrote:She filed for divorce, thinks he cheated. One thing I will say—wives really should be with their husbands on tour. For the sake of the marriage. Too many temptations, especially if a man is feeling neglected.

Nicole filed?

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Maybe she’ll get together with Lenny again.

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Anonymous wrote:She filed for divorce, thinks he cheated. One thing I will say—wives really should be with their husbands on tour. For the sake of the marriage. Too many temptations, especially if a man is feeling neglected.

Nicole filed?

https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/30/nicole-kidman-files-for-divorce-from-keith-urban/?adid=social-tw

She filed and she/her circle thinks he's moved on with another woman

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Anonymous wrote:She filed for divorce, thinks he cheated. One thing I will say—wives really should be with their husbands on tour. For the sake of the marriage. Too many temptations, especially if a man is feeling neglected.

Nicole filed?

https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/30/nicole-kidman-files-for-divorce-from-keith-urban/?adid=social-tw

She filed and she/her circle thinks he's moved on with another woman

Maybe another Dave Grohl situation.