Nicole Kidman on how she often wakes up ‘crying and gasping’ thinking about her mortality while posing for a striking GQ shoot
According to Nicole Kidman, she frequently wakes up thinking about her own death.
In an eye-catching cover photo for British GQ’s Men of the Year 2024 issue, the 57-year-old actress discussed how her perspective on life has evolved in her 50s.
When asked why she now feels things more profoundly, the mother of four was talking about being in sync with her emotions.
«Mortality,» explained Nicole. Link. Life is coming at you. Along with losing parents, raising kids, getting married, and all the other things that go with becoming a fully conscious human.I’m in every one of those locations. Well, that’s life.
Without a doubt, it’s a trip. As you age, you start to wake up around three in the morning, sobbing and gasping. if you are not blinding yourself to it when you are in it. And I’m in it. completely in it.
As Nicole considered how losing her parents and raising her own kids had altered her perspective on life, she touched on mortality once again.
«It’s really heavy when you start dealing with the mortality aspect of life,» she added. You think, «I have to stay here,» when you’re a parent. I want to see everything. It is stunning, remarkable, and tragic.
When her 75-year-old father Antony passed away in 2014 after what seemed to be a heart attack, Nicole was distraught.
A week after Nicole filmed this interview with GQ, her mother Janelle unfortunately died this year in September at the age of 84.
She married Keith Urban in 2006, and the two of them have two daughters: Sunday Rose, 16, and Faith, 14.
The Oscar-winning actress has not been spotted in public for 16 years, and she is thought to have a troubled relationship with her ex-husband Tom Cruise, with whom she shares adoptive children Bella, 31, and Connor, 29.
When Nicole and the Hollywood star split up, she once implied that Bella and Connor are «loyal to their father» and «don’t call her mum» because have «chosen Scientology» over her.
In her GQ discussion, Nicole reflected on the days following her father’s passing and shared a story about how her girls, who were then four and six years old, witnessed her sobbing.
Nicole revealed, «The little one was just so little that she didn’t know whether or not I was acting.» «»Mummy acting now?» she asked. «No,» said the older one, «mummy not acting now.»
«You won’t be sad in the morning?» the elder one said. because they don’t want a depressing house. Who does?
