Tragedies have a [somewhat heartbreaking] approach of bringing folks collectively, and that definitely looks like it could possibly be the case — or, at the very least, the specified end result — for Nicole Kidman and her oldest youngsters. The Oscar winner is estranged from Isabella “Bella,” 31, and Connor, 29, and is reportedly devastated that her mother didn’t get an opportunity to reconnect with them earlier than she handed away in September.
“Losing her mum has made Nicole not wish to waste any extra time. It harm Janelle [Kidman] that she and husband Antony have been estranged from [Bella and Connor],” a household buddy advised New Idea journal. “They have been their first two grandchildren and have been as soon as very shut.”
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According to the insider, it’s a “deep remorse” of Kidman’s that her estranged youngsters — who she adopted with ex-husband Tom Cruise — didn’t see their grandma in individual earlier than she died. And it’s that remorse that’s allegedly “fueling her want for a correct reconciliation.”
Nicole Kidman attends UK Premiere of “The Perfect Couple” on September 02, 2024 in London, England.
The A Family Affair actress — who additionally shares daughters Sunday, 15, and Faith, 13 with husband Keith Urban — has not been publicly seen along with her older youngsters since 2007, per The Daily Mail. That’s round six years after Kidman and Cruise break up in 2001 and the children seemingly took their father’s facet. It’s believed that Kidman didn’t attend Bella’s wedding ceremony in 2015, and it “devastated” the A-lister when Bella and Connor didn’t attend her father’s funeral a yr prior.
And so it was an enormous deal that the pair reportedly wrote their mother a “heartfelt notice” after Janelle handed away this fall.
“The most heartwarming factor has been for Nicole to get a joint message from Bella and Connor, who she’s not heard from in a really very long time,” a supply advised Woman’s Day, per Geo News. “It’s form of unhappy it took such a tragic second to deliver them again into her life, however she is aware of it could make her mum so completely satisfied if her passing introduced her estranged grandkids again into the household.”
The outlet even claimed that the Babygirl star could be prepared to step again from her profession to present her relationship along with her eldest youngsters “its finest shot.”
In a 2019 interview, Kidman talked about how having a toddler impacted her grieving course of after the lack of her father.
“My 3-year-old mentioned, ‘But you’re not going to be unhappy like this tomorrow, are you?’ That’s while you understand, you already know, you must be OK,” she mentioned. “Because they should know that they’re protected, that their mom isn’t going to crumble.”
“Inside? I used to be past shattered. But I needed to rally.”
At the time, she was rallying to help her youngest. Now, evidently — regardless of her grief — she’s rallying to deliver her grownup youngsters again into the fold.
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