Whatever the reason, Kidman admitted that moving forward is not easy. “It took me a very long time to heal,” she told Dejour. “That was a shock to my system.”
When Kidman navigated a final divorce a few months later, she focused on her work and released Moulin Rouge! The following year with others in 2001.
“To be totally honest, I was running away from my life at the time,” she shared in 2015’s Women in the World Summit. “I couldn’t handle the reality of my life, and as an actor, you have this wonderful thing that allows you to get lost in someone else’s life and become someone else for a certain period of time.”
When the actress transformed into these characters, she also noticed changes in herself.
“Then I embraced my life and gathered myself,” she continued.
However, after winning the Oscar in 2003, Kidman realized that she wanted more.
“It caused epiphany, but it was ‘In fact, this isn’t the answer,'” she added. “I was sitting in a hotel in Beverly Hills, and it was all extraordinary and I was the loneliest I’ve ever had.”
