Actress Nicole Kidman has spoken about losing her father on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, saying we don’t talk about losing parents enough.
Nicole’s father, Dr Antony Kidman, 75, died in Singapore on September 12 while visiting daughter, Antonia, and her family.
“I’ve realised we don’t talk about it enough in terms of our society,” Nicole said on the talk show. “Because at some point in our lives … everybody loses their parents and it’s awful.
“I’m sorry to bring everything down, but I’m at the same time trying to navigate through something right now. And I’m amazed when people reach out, because it’s an awkward thing at times, but to have people go, ‘I’m so sorry for your loss’ – the power of that, and even a note or anything, which I’ve gotten so much love from people,” the star added.
The 47-year-old Oscar winner also said that she relied heavily on her husband of eight years, Keith Urban during the difficult time.
“To have my husband just step up that way … it makes me cry. We all go through hard times in our lives, but to be literally carried by your partner, and physically, at times, because I was so devastated. I’ll do anything for that man,” she said.
Nicole on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Picture: Michael Rozman/Warner Bros
Nicole Kidman and Antony Kidman at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in 2005.
Nicole Kidman and Antony Kidman leave the star’s Darling Point Home and make the journey to Manly for Nicole’s wedding to Keith Urban on Sunday, June 25, 2006.
Nicole Kidman and her father Antony on their way to the church for Nicole’s wedding to Keith Urban in 2006.
Nicole Kidman took her father Antony Kidman to the Golden Globes in 2002.
The Aussie actress with her father and mother Janelle on the red carpet of the Golden Globes in 2002.
Nicole and her father in 2005.
Janelle Kidman, Nicole and Antony Kidman at the Australian premiere of the film ‘Cold Mountain’ in 2003.
This year Antony Kidman visited Nicole on the movie set of Family Fang filming in New York.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at the funeral service for her father Antony Kidman, at St Francis Xavier, in Sydney. Picture: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts
