Actress Nicole Kidman has opened up about the difficult time she had after her divorce from Tom Cruise in 2001, saying she tried to get lost in her movie characters to overcome the reality of life.
The 48-year-old Australian actress was part of a sit-down at the Women in the World Summit in London.
After her divorce from Cruise, the actress received a lot of praise for her roles in movies including “Moulin Rouge!” and “The Hours”.
When asked whether her divorce unleashed her creativity, she said, “I was running from my life at that time. I wasn’t able to handle the reality of my life.
“As an actor, you have this wonderful thing where you can go and get lost in somebody else’s life and become somebody else for a period of time,” the Oscar-winning actress added.
“And when I look back on it, I really see that. Out of that came work that sort of was applauded and so that was an interesting thing for me.
“I then sort of embraced my own life and I got myself together and it took me a number of years and during that time, I worked a lot,” Nicole recalled. “The work was a great place for me to exist and then that culminated in winning an Oscar.”
