The star power of Tom Cruise protected Nicole Kidman from sexual harassment in Hollywood, the actress says.
“I got married very young, but it definitely wasn’t power for me – it was protection,” Kidman writes in an essay published in New York Magazine’s latest issue on women and power.
She continued: “I married for love, but being married to an extremely powerful man kept me from being sexually harassed. I would work, but I was still very much cocooned.”
Kidman, 51, and Cruise, 56, began a relationship after meeting in 1990 on the set of “Days of Thunder.” They married that year and later adopted two children together.
The marriage ended in 2001, which is still difficult for Kidman to discuss.
“Being married to Tom Cruise at 22 is something I’m always reluctant to talk about, because I’m married now to the man who is my great love (Keith Urban), and it almost feels disrespectful,” she writes. (Kidman married the country singer in 2006 and they have two daughters together.)
Kidman said she had to “grow up” after splitting with Cruise in her early 30s. She said she hada her own #MeToo moments, but declined to discuss them.
