Many of us have been wondering about Nicole Kidman along-side our interest and coverage of all things Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes. Allegedly, Nicole has been in hiding since Katie filed for divorce, and Nicole has issued no public statements. Nicole might even be avoiding her friends because she doesn’t want to discuss anything. I theorized last week that Nicole – who made her own particular deal with Xenu, Tom and the CoS – would have to make a pro-Tom statement at some point if she was backed into a corner. Nic’s people have already had to come out and deny a story about Nicole allegedly telling Katie to “stay strong”! But the speedy divorce settlement between Tom and Katie has made that issue kind of a non-starter, so Nicole got to stay quiet. That doesn’t mean that Nicole’s PR people (doesn’t she share a publicist with Jennifer Aniston?) aren’t pushing a sympathetic version of Nicole to Us Weekly. That’s how I’m reading Us Weekly’s cover story this week – Team Kidman attaching itself to Katie Holmes’s spectacular legal and PR moves. But is it true?
Katie Holmes has friends in high places — and that includes Nicole Kidman. As Holmes, 33, struggled and secretly plotted to end her marriage to Tom Cruise, she found a pillar of support in her husband’s second ex-wife, who divorced the actor in 2001.
“They’ve spoken over the last few weeks,” a confidante tells the new Us Weekly of Holmes and Kidman, 45. “Nicole has been supportive, saying she’s been through it too and to hang in there.”
(One way Holmes may have made those secret calls to Kidman? The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the Romantics actress used a disposable cell phone provided by a pal to plot her divorce without the detection of Cruise and his team.)
It’s not a brand-new friendship either, the confidante says, telling Us that the women have been speaking since Holmes’ 2006 marriage to Cruise, 50. Kidman shares kids Isabella, 19, and Connor, 17, with Cruise, although much has been made of her estrangement from their kids.
“She has been a private friend not many people know about,” the source continues.
As Holmes reached the breaking point in her marriage to Cruise — and with mounting fears about daughter Suri — she reached out again to Kidman for advice. “Nicole offered her support and help,” the insider adds.
Seriously, do you see any of this happening? I’m not so sure. It’s possible that Katie reached out to Nicole at some point this year to get Nicole’s advice on how to bolt – but really, what did Nicole know about bolting? Tom dumped Nicole – not the other way around. And it really feels like Katie was trying to detach herself from everyone in Tom’s orbit, and she wouldn’t try to strike up a confidence with Nicole, a woman who might sell Katie out to Xenu. Basically, I think this whole think is Nicole trying to ride on Katie’s coattails and Team Kidman trying to save face – because Nicole didn’t fight Tom like Katie did. It will be interesting to see what the Murdoch press outlets have to say about all of this too.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Don’t believe a word of it. Just like the supposed “reach out” to Sandra Bullock, I think it’s BS. Katie closed down to a small circle she could trust (parents and those her dad hired) and that was it. No way she would have risked talking things over with Nicole.
+1
I don’t think Nicole’s people put this out there. Tom Cruise would use it as a reason to cut off ties between Connor, Bella and Nicole for good. Nicole loves her kids.
Good point. Making Nicole an “instigator” of TC’s “unhappiness” and why it’s so great/right that Nicole’s kids don’t deal with her. That it’s all Nicole’s “fault”, not “poor, sad, decent” Tom.
Agree. Nicole’s got some sort of agreement with Tom going, so I don’t think she’d risk it. Plus I don’t think she’s that noble.
@bluhare – I agree – Nicole is not that noble and besides, she’s moved on. She probably wasn’t that happy about the way Katie used to brag about her relationship with Nicole’s kids and how they called her mom. Nicole had a pretty shitty time of it with Tom – I don’t see why she would go anywhere near Tom, or anyone close to him, or CO$ again.
Also, Katie kept things pretty close to the vest – I don’t think she would reach out to anyone outside of her inner circle – especially the ex-wife.
You’re probably right, Lizzie, but I do wonder if part of Katie’s growing disillusionment with Tom was realizing that he and Co$ were the driving force behind Connor and Bella’s alienation from Nicole Kidman, the only mother they had known. What Tom did to those kids relationship with their mother is despicable and proves that cutting Nicole out per Miscavige’s demands trumped his own love/concern for Connor and Bella. Really sick stuff. Katie had to worry that if Tom could do it to Nicole, he’d have zero prob taking Suri away from her and delivering her straight into the crazed clutch of Scientology.
And if Katie isn’t being declared an SP so that Tom can continue a relationship with Suri, does that mean Conor and Isabella — if they truly are fond of Katie — can also stay in touch with her?
And if so, how do they justify staying in touch with the stepmother if they’ve cut off all contact with their own mother?
How does Miscavige square that circle?
I always thought of NK as very Stepford wive-ish.
Agreed. Wax face and her budget country singer husband=BLAH!
I totally agree with “budget country singer husband.” I don’t like country music at all and her husband is beyond blah. Now Tim McGraw was in Philly recently and OMG that man can croon to me in any effin genre he wants! YUM.
Well she was in that movie!..Check out the movie poster – it’s just her face!
Meh enough already
This is BS, the whole thing was locked down tighter than an ant’s asshole.
hahaha agreed..
“locked down tighter than an ant’s asshole” lol, I like that.
if i’m not mistaken…i think it was reported that Katie did send a gift for Sunday Rose’s birth, so these two may have a friendly-on-the-low relationship. not blown out bffs…but friendly in terms of Katie being her kid’s Stepmom.
Nicole is always in stealth mode, anyways. her & Keith live on that huge 65 acre property in Tennessee, so heaven knows ‘who’ they’re friends with.
she’s always maintained to be a private person even all those years with Rumpelstiltskin, so you never know. 🙂
Ha!! I got my first really good laugh of the day at “Rumpelstiltskin”. Thanks!!
I agree w/ Lizzie, Katie played this all too tightly to confide in her. And I doubt Nicole wanted to get involved in that circus again. I could imagine at some point she threw a “call me when you’ve had enough” out there but beyond that I don’t see her wanting to put her husband and young kids in the cult’s sights.
Remember how Tom used to always call her Nic though no one else did? Just like Kate instead of Katie. Controlling little turd
so true. I know someone married to a famous, in Australia, country singer and they are friends with the Urban/Kidman’s and someone said to her “so what is Nic like” and the response was “her name is Nicole, not Nic”
Yeah, I don’t know if I buy this. Nicole was the one who was blindsided.
I would guess that Nicole has told her PR people to keep her the hell out of the entire mess.
It’s just US trying to keep a story alive that unfortunately for them, is ending more quickly than they’d like.
This. No way she’s going to do anything to put a further wedge between herself and her kids.
I don’t buy it. I have absolutely nothing to back this up with, but I don’t think she gives much of a big one about those kids.
How many of you moms would let someone else have total control over your kids? I don’t buy it. She could have waged a public battle for them if she cared. I bet most of you would say you’d give up everything for your kids, so why didn’t she?
Exactly. Her kids are already act cold enough towards her, she doesn’t want to lose them completely.
I agree bluhare. Redheaded robot is an Ice Queen.
@bluhare totally agree. The whole thing with the children and Nicole, I’ve always found odd, and honestly all the excuses people have given her, as to why she doesn’t have a relationship as such any more with her older kids, just don’t hold water with me. No fucking way does someone walk out on her childrens life like that, not unless Tommy boy had a gun to their heads telling her, either or…
@bluhare “How many of you moms would let someone else have total control over your kids? I don’t buy it. She could have waged a public battle for them if she cared. I bet most of you would say you’d give up everything for your kids, so why didn’t she?”
My own mother allowed my father to have total control when all was said and done after their divorce and custody battle over me. My parents were young when they had me and my mother was a huge party girl. My father has a LOT of dirt on her and after 4 years of custody battle, he saw how much everything was affecting me and said said “enough is enough” and offered my mother a deal. Either she agrees to sole legal and physical custody and is allowed twice monthly weekend visitation or he goes into court and tells all. She agreed, and she isn’t even a celeb with a reputation to protect. She just didn’t want everyone knowing all the crap she did. I held a lot of resentment towards my mother for a long time because of everything, but now that I’m an adult I’m glad my father did what he did. Had I grown up with my mom I’d probably be a completely different person and not in a good way. Mothers have been known to give up their kids to save themselves.
@bluhare at the time of the divorce CO$ was very, very powerful. Tom Cruise also very popular and powerful. They would have smeared Nicole Kidman in the press and turned her kids against her. There was nothing she could do but go along with the program.
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US Weakly doesn’t know shiz. They are taking advantage of this divorce to sell magazine. Nicole might not have spoken openly on this divorce but I’m sure she’s saying “Good for you Katie. So glad you got out way before I did.” I’m sure Nicole is secretly very happy for Katie.
LOL poor Nicole?
This is the thing that’s sad to me…poor Nicole has a beautiful new family, a nice life and she is continuously being dragged through this divorce that isn’t even her own!!!
I think she probably is doing a side smile similar to Katie, but that the truth is she’s staying away because it’s NOT HER DIVORCE!!
Spare me.
Since I can’t seem to find the right words to this myself, I will once again quote the great MichaelK
“UsWeekly says that one of those down low conversations might’ve been with the second member of The Tommy Girl Ex-Beards Club, Nicole Kidman. Apparently, Nicole “lent Katie her ear” during all of this. Since Nicole’s ear is entirely made of plastic and is completely detachable like her face, I totally picture her sending it to Katie via FedEx and Katie talking into it while hiding out from Tommy under bed.”
And there you have it!
I love MichaelK – he puts things so eloquently!
Also, for all those who think Nicole willingly ditched Bella and Connor, she did not. Shortly after Tom dumped her, a friend of mine got on the elevator in her very expensive condo building, which has some spectacular, private suites on the top floor for visiting film and music industry people (the Stones keep an apartment there). Just as the elevator doors opened my friend heard the following: “….my career will be ruined”, then everyone shut up when she got on. Nicole Kidman was on the elevator with some of her people and she had clearly been crying.
I firmly believe that Tom and Miscavige threatened to expose her audit tapes if she didn’t play nice with the divorce and access to the kids. As Bella and Connor got more and more entrenched into Co$, they were no doubt told that “mommy is a suppressive person, you shouldn’t be associating with her” and the relationship gradually crumbled.
So she was basically blackmailed. You can rag on her all you want about choosing career over kids but I sure wouldn’t want private audit sessions detailing every wrong thing I ever did blasted all over the world if I was a celebrity.
The interesting thing is that it’s all come back to haunt Tom – what goes around comes around, and revenge is a dish best served cold.
I just can’t understand what COS exactly HAD on Kidman? Does she really have something so damaging in her past or about her that was uncovered in an audit? Was she really audited? I think it might have been in the contract from the get-go, and she got a butt-load of money. Then the kids, who already resented her for all intensive purposes for walking out of their lives, were futher estranged from her by the church.
Jaded – Agreed. I never thought she just “walked away” from her children. She was FORCED away, by the CO$’ intimidation tactics (including Tommy’s).
People also need to remember that Nicole was involved with Tom (and therefore CO$) at a younger age than Katie, and longer (10+ years).
I agree, Nicole was bullied by Cruise and Miscavage. They could have said whatever they wanted to about her, and said she “confessed” to it while auditing. Miscavage is known to lie and slander and manipulate people all the time when they try to leave the cult. And he does it professionally with teams of lawyers and pr and media people. This woman was up against a world wide organization of wealthy powerful misogynists. She lost her kids, she is probably thankful that she didn’t lose her reputaion, her finances, her career, the rest of her family, her health and eventually her life, as so many other ex-Scientologists have. She escaped. Thank God. Hopefully, with time, her children will grow up and find the courage to escape too.
it’s easier for Katie to walk away and challenge Cruise because people have finally seen him for who he is, an unhinged person involved in a cult like religion Years ago when Cruise left Nicole, he was at the height of an immensely popular career who no tints of scandal. Scientology was didn’t have the bad reputation that it now has. Katie knows that Scientology is in a bad light. she knew it was the time to strike and get out. Nicole was taken advantage off when Cruise and Scientology was at it’s strongest. So please cut Nicole some slack, she made the best when all the cards were stacked against her…..
I have often thought about what CO$ have got on Nicole to keep her silent. What could be so bad that she has had to toe the line with them????
Before I quit a job where I was harassed by my boss, I actively sought out the opinion of the woman who had held the job before me for 20 years. Turned out she was also harassed by the same boss. It helped strengthen the case I was making against said boss to HR. It was so comforting to hear that I wasn’t crazy, wasn’t alone and didn’t imagine the harassment.
Nicole clearly wants nothing to do with Co$. If Katie hasn’t reached out to her yet (and I’d be surprised if she hadn’t by now, since Kidman is clearly no Cruise fan) then I bet she will soon. Bet Nicole is a good ally for her. And hopefully Katie can marry a normal person one day and have more kids and a viable career, just like Nicole.
I believe Nicole had a miscarriage around the time Cruise divorced her. Has it never occurred to anyone that the reason he divorced was because she was not prepared to have her child born in accordance with his religious beliefs.
It is highly unlikely that Kidman or anyone outside of Katie Holmes inner circle offered their support.
Everyone in Hollywood knows what Tom Cruise is capable of doing and the CoS’s history speaks for itself.
Katie may have won the battle but the war is far from over.
Poor girl is standing in quicksand and probably doesn’t realize it yet.
yea, this isn’t over yet, but whatever Tom does will be covert. Maybe boycott her career (the little she has) when her popularity dies down. Who knows. TC doesn’t lose.
Not buying it. Nk would have no reason to talk to KH.
I doubt if NK helped but she’ll gladly pay for the extra botox treatments after laughing her azz off for the last 11 days
For what it’s worth, there was a blind item regarding this story just about a month ago.
I think general consensus is that NK is staying quiet bc of her children with Tom: she can’t openly criticize CO$ or Tom bc the kids would be encouraged even more to stay away from her, non?
In light of that fact, I think that to believe her team would ride Katie’s coattails fOr good PR…totally ridiculous.
Why would she risk her (very, very fragile) connection with her kids for a little bit of PR(come on, you don’t think that CO$ people will really care if her camp said it or if it’s fabricated-she still sounds like an SP to Connor and Bella either way!)-she’d made a statement if she was really willing to risk it.
Even more so, WHY would she risk her kids over a woman who publicly bragged how NK kids call her “Mom”???!!! That was so low of Katie, I’d never, ever lift my finger for her if I were NK.
Can we leave NK out of this? Don’t forget, according to all those ex-CO$ sources, Cruise was out of the CO$ during their marriage, so my guess is, she didn’t really know all that Katie knows. Hell, Katie probably knew more about CO$ prior to marriage with Tom, than Nic did during hers.
people have criticized nicole over the years for “selling out” her kids…but nobody knows what that woman may have been put through. Now things are starting to emerge. she may be vindicated after all this time. it’s easy to criticize what we don’t know anything about
I said something similar the other day, those who have been so critical of her need to read just how the cult so completely cuts people out. With all the info people are now putting out there, it’s very likely that’s what happened to her. They turned those kids against her and probably got the kids to ask the judge to let them live with Tom full time, where the cult continued to poison them with horrible things about her. That sort of thing happens in regular divorces too, one parent turning the kids against the other, I can’t imagine with the power of an entire cult behind it.
It’s US Weekly. Not buying it. At most she could give her “What Not to Do” advice.
Would it not be awesome if it was NK that slipped KH the phone. Picture it swank HW party NK and KH bump into each other they give each other a dirty look to keep up appearances but in Katies bag Nicole slips the phone and gives her arm a little sqeeze before gliding away.
“nic” didnt have papa holmes. HE is the skywalker here.
Call me crazy but I always thought Nicole and Crazy Tom were a real thing. At least, she adored him.
Me too. I agree. I’ve been watching some of his stuff from the 90s, and he was awesome.
+1. Me too. I agree. I’ve been watching some of his stuff from the 90s, and he was awesome.
+1. Me too. I agree. He was good in the 90s.
+1. Me too. I agree. He was good in the nineties.
Nicole & Tom shared joint custody, and in California, anyway once the children reach a certain age they can decide which parent they want to live with. I really believe it wasn’t a matter of Nicole not fighting for her kids, but rather accepting their (no doubt Co$ influenced) decision to live with Tom full time. If she had fought them on that, she would have destroyed any chance of ever having any type of relationship with them. One of the hardest parts of being a mom is accepting & respecting your childs decision even though it breaks your heart.
Triple Truth, Ruth. 🙁
this.
people always seem to forget it was joint custody and in those first few years she was with the kids a lot. unfortunately, the other half of the time isabella and connor were with cruise and being brainwashed by scientology that when they finally got to make the decision themselves, they chose to stay with Tom. Nicole pretty much went along by not alienating them completely.
What is wrong with Nicole’s hands that they are always so blood red and engorged looking? Like she has circulatory issues. Plus I honestly dont see her helping anyone but herself. Nicole that is.
The most interesting aspect of this story for me is Isabella Cruise. She seems to be kind of sad and in need of a mom or strong woman mentor (Katie), yet also seems to really want to please her dad, a god-like figure of a misogynist, homophobic, perfectionistic spartan-like cult. The cult’s values don’t seem to be in keeping with much of what an artist would embody. Yet that’s her chosen profession. She is a young adult who seems caught in a moral dilemma. Now that Katie has divorced Tom, over Scientology, the cult requires Isabella to shun Katie and Suri as SPs. I wonder if she will?
The Church of Scientology asks its members to quit all communication with Suppressive Persons (those whom the Church deems antagonistic to Scientology).
The practice of shunning in Scientology is termed disconnection. Members can disconnect from any person they already know, including existing family members.
The Church states that typically only people with “false data” about Scientology are antagonistic, so it encourages members to first attempt to provide “true data” to these people.
According to official Church statements, disconnection is only used as a last resort and only lasts until the antagonism ceases.
Failure to disconnect from a Suppressive Person is itself labelled a Suppressive act.
Katie isn’t being declared an SP or Tom wouldn’t be able to have a relationship with Suri. So theoretically, Isabella and Conor could maintain a relationship with her if they wanted.
Yet their own mother has been declared an SP.
Do they start questioning why they can maintain a relationship with their father’s third ex-wife, but their own mother is off limits?
you know, it’s a shame that two CLASSY dames like kidman and now holmes, ever got wrapped up with a looney like cruise…
Hindsight is 20/20…but really, both actress’ are smart, private, classy, beautiful, ‘grounded and mentally sane’, good families…no adultery!
most marriages end for $$$ or adultery, neither was the case, just sheer, f***king CO$ lunacy
what a loss – Tom, you’re missing out on the whole POINT of life! it’s not the awards, global recognition it’s get some love n’ spread it while u can…
total loss
I don’t think Nicole gives a shit about Katie Holmes and I don’t blame her. If she pissed Kidman off it was probably from her “Connor and Bella call me Mom” BS.
And why would she even care about her reputation by now. I imagine Kidman is quite used to the implication she didn’t do enough for her kids.
Anyway, one of Kidman’s great virtues is her lack of need to be loved by the audience, and that’s never been clearer
in her film roles.
Yup.
For Kidman, it’s all about the talent not the “likeability factor”.
And as for the “fake Tomkat divorce” the only I’m concerned about, is that I fear the poor child will continue to be photo-oped to promote her parent’s images. Which is a shame.
Word was Nicole’s baby wasn’t Toms (he said at the time NICOLE KNOWS THE REASON FOR THE SPLIT). Nicole is no innocent either. And I’ve even heard there was a sizable sum of $ involved for her to just “walk away”….
Doesn’t mean that it’s true. That was part of the CO$ crap released to smear Nicole’s name and make it seem like she’s the one at fault. Nicole released a statement and said she has no idea what Tom meant by that.
She ought to have been compensated, others who divorce do, so why should she be different?