EBN- The international star Nicole Kidman, 57 years old, has a long artistic career, winning awards, having won an Oscar, two Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards.
Despite the spotlight being on her all the time, and perhaps the audience believing that she is a star living a life full of luxury, she is like many people who carry inside them a lot of psychological pain and pressures, which sometimes turn into bouts of depression, and this is what actually happened to her.
Nicole Kidman talks about the pressures of life
Nicole Kidman appeared in a photoshoot on the cover of the 2024 issue of British GQ magazine, talking about how her approach to life changed in her fifties, and she also opened up about the waves of depression that accompany her every period, indicating that she has become more deeply aware of things than before.
Kidman revealed during her interview with the magazine that she often wakes up thinking about death, and she keeps crying for hours because of that feeling, and she said: “I think about death a lot. Life is like a long journey, every period comes and gives you a strong blow like the blow of losing your parents, in addition to raising children and marriage and all the things that make a person mature and aware, but they also constitute great pressure.”
She continued: “I often wake up at 3 am and burst into tears, but I am still determined to live and not give up. I live life with all my strength.
She continued: “I often wake up at 3 am and burst into tears, but I am still determined to live and not give up. I live life with all my strength.
Nicole describes the pain of losing her parents
Kidman was devastated in 2014 when her father Anthony died of a heart attack at the age of 75, and her mother Janelle died this year in September at the age of 84.
“Death changed my outlook on life,” she explained. “When you meet it and have to deal with it, it becomes very difficult, but you force yourself to continue for the sake of your children, and you tell yourself I have to stay here for them. It’s a devastating feeling, but it’s also a beautiful one.”
Kidman has two daughters, Sunday Rose, 16, and Faith, 14, with her husband Keith Urban, whom she married in 2006, and two adopted children, Bella, 31, and Connor, 29, with her ex-husband Tom Cruise .
Nicole recalled the time of her father’s death, when her daughters saw her crying: “They were so young that they didn’t know if I was acting or not, and then they asked me not to cry and I realized then that it was my burden not to show them my sadness because they didn’t want a house full of sadness.”
Speaking to Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue, the actress said of her mother: “My mother was my compass, my support system.
Kidman was was absent from the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Feastival 2024, on September 7 , due to the death of her mother hours before she received the Best Actress award at the ceremony for her role in the drama “Baby Girl”.
Kidman, 57, was absent from the ceremony and was unable to accept the award for Best Actress, but she did entrust the film’s director, Halina Regin, to read her speech, revealing that Nicole’s mother, Janelle, passed away at the age of 83 while Nicole was in Venice.
