Nicole Kidman is still reeling after the death of her mom Janelle Kidman last month, and she just made a rare, heartbreaking statement about it. The 54-year-old opened up about her mom, and it proves you’re never too old to need your mama.
“I wish my mama was here,” the Oscar-winner told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday night at the Lioness Season 2 premiere at the Linwood Dunn Theater. “That’d be the one thing I’d say. Everything is great with work but I wish my mama was here.”
The Perfect Couple star added that things have “been hard” since her mom died. “It’s a hard road. I’m hanging in there,” she said.
It’s so sad! I can’t imagine the pain of losing your mom. It doesn’t matter that she is in her 50s or that she’s a mom herself. That loss can feel unbearable, no matter what, and our hearts go out to her.
Kidman found out about her mother’s tragic passing before she won the Volpi Cup award for best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her work in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. Reijn accepted the prize on behalf of Kidman, who wrote for the moment, per Us Weekly, “Today I arrived in Venice to find out shortly after, that my beautiful, brave mother Janelle Ann Kidman has just passed. I am in shock and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her, she shaped me, she guided me and she made me.”
“I am beyond grateful that I get to say her name to all of you through Halina, the collision of life and art is heart-breaking, and my heart is broken,” the statement, read by Reijn, continued.
Kidman’s father Antony Kidman died in 2014, and at the time, her youngest daughter Faith, who she shares with husband Keith Urban, was only 3 years old. In a 2019 interview with Tatler, Kidman shared how motherhood impacted her grief. “My three year old said, ‘But you’re not going to be sad like this tomorrow, are you?’ That’s when you realize, you know, you have to be OK,” she said. “Because they need to know that they’re safe, that their mother isn’t going to fall apart. Inside? I was beyond shattered. But I had to rally.”
“I jumped in to life. Let’s go on a plane. Let’s try things. Let’s go for it. Because who knows, right?” she added about her outlook on life.
Her vulnerability and openness to continue living even after unimaginable grief is truly inspiring.
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