Nicole Kidman recalls ‘struggling’ after Tom Cruise divorce despite 2003 Oscar win: ‘I went to bed alone’
nypost.comthe hours after her Oscars 2003 win, which weren’t pleasant.The 56-year-old actress won her first Academy Award for her role as Virginia Woolf in “The Hours” opposite Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore in 2003, but despite taking home the statuette for “Best Actress,” Kidman felt at her worst.At the time, Kidman had recently finalized her divorce from Hollywood’s titular leading man, Tom Cruise, after 11 years of marriage.
During her acceptance speech, she appeared so distraught that she couldn’t hold back tears.“I was struggling with things in my personal life, yet my professional life was going so well,” she told author Dave Karger in his new book “50 Oscar Nights.” “That’s what happens, right?” she went on.“Russell Crowe said don’t cry when you get up there and now I’m crying,” she recalled of the moment that should have been a highlight of her career.
The “Aquaman and the Lost Kidman” star was unable to pull it together before her time ran out and she was played off the stage, causing her to end the night entirely.“I’m not a big party girl, so I was going to skip the Vanity Fair party, and everyone was like, ‘You’ve got to go.
You’ve got to walk through the party carrying your Academy Award,’” she told Karger. “I said, ‘That just feels like gloating, and it doesn’t feel humble.’ Like, what?
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