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‘I Don’t Care’: Nicole Kidman Recalls Giving up on Her Career After Tom Cruise Marriage

  • On Thursday, actor Nicole Kidman, 59, discussed her marriage to Tom Cruise in a British Vogue interview, recalling warnings that marrying a major star would derail her career.
  • Kidman married Cruise in 1990 at age 23, describing the union as providing 'protection' from harassment while she felt 'thrust' into fame in her early 20s.
  • People warned Kidman, 'OK, well this is really going to affect your career,' but she ignored the advice, saying, 'I wasn't meant to marry the man I love? Of course I'll throw my career away.'
  • Despite those concerns, Kidman's career flourished, earning an Academy Award, six Golden Globes, two Emmys, and a BAFTA while starring in 'Moulin Rouge!' and 'The Others'.
  • Following her divorce from Keith Urban, Kidman admitted feeling 'very fearful and deeply vulnerable,' stating, 'The future, it's completely unknown to me right now.
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Nicole Kidman has openly expressed some reflections about her marriage to Tom Cruise, with which she formed one of the most iconic and media couples in Hollywood. Just 25 years after her divorce from the protagonist of Impossible Mission, the Australian actress has looked back to remember the beginnings of her relationship, in the 1990s, and the enormous pressure to which the two performers were exposed. When Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were ma…

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Nicole Kidman shared her memories of her 11-year-old marriage to Tom Cruz and her refusals at that time.

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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Nicole Kidman was only 23 years old when she married Tom Cruise in 1990. She was young, passionate and was just starting her Hollywood career. Cruise, on the other hand, was already one of the biggest movie stars in the world. The difference in age (he is 5 years older) and, above all, the difference in popularity between them was obvious, and some warned Kidman that marrying such a famous celebrity could end up harming her own career. More than…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Nicole Kidman states after the divorce that took Hollywood by surprise that there was a time when she feared for the future, but that the fact that her life was not anyway where she imagined it made her look at things in another light, reports People magazine. Talking about her lives after the divorce of the country singer...

·Romania
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The actress, who doesn’t usually talk to the press about that stage of her life, made an exception and claimed that she and Top Gun’s protagonist fell in love “lost”

·Vicente López, Argentina
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TMZ broke the news in Burbank, United States on Thursday, August 13, 2026.
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