<p id=”par-1_57″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/tom-cruise-nicole-kidman-disagreed-monogamy.html/”>Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise</a> spent over a decade as a married couple. They wed early in her career, when he was already a major star. Kidman said that people warned her that linking herself to someone like Cruise could damage her career. Kidman said she didn’t care. She was willing to give up <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/nicole-kidman-never-thought-shed-love-again-after-tom-cruise.html/”>acting for love</a>.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-nicole-kidman-said-she-was-willing-to-make-a-major-sacrifice-for-tom-cruise”>Nicole Kidman said she was willing to make a major sacrifice for Tom Cruise</h2>
<p id=”par-2_53″>Kidman and Cruise tied the knot in 1990. Her career was still in its early stages, but Cruise was <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/tom-cruise-stands-3-6-billion-mission-impossible-movie-empire.html/”>already a superstar</a> after films like <em>Top Gun, Risky Business, The Color of Money, Rain Man</em>, and <em>Born on the Fourth of July. </em>Kidman said it didn’t feel strange to marry someone so famous.</p>
<p id=”par-3_30″>“Yeah, I got married so young,” she told <a href=”https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nicole-kidman-british-vogue-interview” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Vogue</a>. “Suddenly I was 22, 23 years old and I had this huge movie star husband. But it just seemed completely natural.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_24″>People warned her that her personal life could overshadow her career if she married Cruise. Kidman said she was too in love to care.</p>
<p id=”par-5_42″>“We just fell madly in love and it was that simple,” she said. “I remember people saying to me, ‘OK, well this is really going to affect your career.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t care. I’m in love. I want to be married.’”</p>
<p id=”par-6_13″>She said that she was willing to give up her career for Cruise.</p>
<p id=”par-7_39″>And then I was his ‘wife’ and they were like, ‘See, we told you,’” she said. “I’m like, ‘So what? I wasn’t meant to marry the man I love? Of course I’ll throw my career away. I don’t care.’”</p>
<p id=”par-8_12″>Of course, these concerns were unfounded. Kidman has had a prolific career.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-nicole-kidman-and-tom-cruise-divorced-in-2001″>Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise divorced in 2001</h2>
<p id=”par-9_26″>After over a decade of marriage, Kidman and Cruise divorced in 2001. Cruise filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Kidman said this <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/nicole-kidman-allegedly-begged-tom-cruise-not-to-leave-her.html/”>took her by surprise</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-10_11″>“That was a major shock,” she said in 2006, per <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.today.com/popculture/nicole-kidman-says-she-still-loves-tom-cruise-1C9433600″ rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Today</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-11_15″>Even five years after their divorce, Kidman said she felt love for her former husband.</p>
<p id=”par-12_34″>“He was huge; still is,” she said. “To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge. But he was lovely to me. And I loved him. I still love him.”</p>
<p id=”par-13_31″>She also debunked the rumor that an image of her looking deeply relieved was taken shortly after she filed for divorce. Kidman clarified that this was an image from a film.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-she-recently-went-through-another-divorce”>She recently went through another divorce</h2>
<p id=”par-14_37″>After Cruise, Kidman married Keith Urban. In 2025, Kidman <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/keith-urban-couldnt-take-anymore-more-affected-rough-year-nicole-kidman-says-expert-numerologist.html/”>filed for divorce</a>, and the couple quickly settled. She said she felt vulnerable and fearful after her marriage ended, but she knew she had to keep moving forward.</p>
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<p id=”par-15_73″>“But at the same time I’m like, ‘OK, I didn’t expect this. I had a different view of what my life was going to be, but this is what it is now,’” she said, adding, “You make all these plans and you have all these ideas of what it’s all going to be like and then it’s… not. You have to adjust. You adapt. The future, it’s completely unknown to me right now.”</p>