Nicole Kidman has revealed the one thing she’d love to do to celebrate Mother’s Day this year, and said it’s been tough not seeing her extended family back in Australia as she self-isolates in the US with her husband Keith Urban and their two children.
Like many others, the actress has had to hold off visits to her loved ones in her home country, but today more than ever, she said she’s missing her mum and wishes they could spend some face-to-face time together.
Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald in the lead up to Mother’s Day, Nicole said: “I would love to be able to have a cup of tea with mum and sit on the balcony and talk about life, and have her tell me what I should be doing”.
While she’s grateful to have her beloved husband and daughters Sunday Rose and Faith with her during the pandemic, not being able to hug and kiss, or even see her extended family back in Australia has been a struggle and she, like people right across the globe has been asking the question, “when do I see my family again?”
The 52-year-old said they have been keeping in touch via video chat however, her mum, like many older people, has had some trouble getting the hang of the new way of communication. Nicole claimed her mum isn’t a “zoomer”, but is slowly getting used to using FaceTime.
“I’ve given her the right angle on the phone now,” she told The Sydney Morning Herald. “She’s like, ‘I don’t like this angle on my phone’, [so] I said, ‘you’ve got to hold it, mama. Hold it up high so you’re looking up’.”
Although the distance from her family has been hard, Nicole has been able to enjoy the extended time with Keith and their children. And recently, the star revealed all about the moment she fell in love with the country music star.
Nicole opened up on her romance with her husband of 14-years in an interview with Wall Street Journal magazine, confessing that she knew early on in their courtship that he was ‘the one’.
The defining moment came after the crooner took Nicole for a ride on his Harley-Davidson to Woodstock, NY, and then treated her to a romantic picnic in the woods. “I was a goner – I mean, c’mon,” she told WSJ.
The pair first met at the annual G’Day USA event in Los Angeles in 2005 and started dating six months later. Nicole and Keith then tied the knot in Sydney in 2006.
In honour of fronting May’s issue of the magazine, Nicole also invited the publication to “ask her anything” and shared a stunning black-and-white video of her responses on her Instagram account.
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In the three-minute-long clip, Nicole was asked what is one piece of advice that has changed her life, to which she replied: “When you get to the top, just remember, there’s nothing there, the only thing that really matters is love. No matter what your accomplishments are, it’s incredibly lonely if you’re not surrounded by some form of love.”
She also revealed that a phone call from Baz Luhrmann asking her to play the lead Satine in 2001 movie Moulin Rouge “changed her life”. She said: “That really changed my life. I think when you’re an actor, those phone calls really change your life, pretty much throughout your career. Like massive, massive turns.”