Nicole Kidman talks about her upbringing, three months after her mother’s death

Nicole Kidman was particularly upset by the death of her mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, on September 7, 2024. Then in the middle of the Venice Film Festival, the 57-year-old actress was forced to leave the event to find her loved ones. “Today I arrived in Venice to learn shortly after that my beautiful and courageous mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, had just passed away,” she said in a letter read at the time of what should have been her speech.

In an interview published Thursday January 3 in the magazine W the actress returned to the relationship she had with her mother and the education she gave her. “The more love and intimacy and closeness you have with a person, the more it hurts to lose them,” she said of his death.

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And when the journalist asked her which films her mother had preferred, Nicole Kidman did not fail to say that her mother could have been tough at times. “She loved The Paperboy. She has never seen Babygirl. She loved The Hours. However, she was harsh in her criticism. So I’m used to criticism, which is pretty good.”

“She thought I had a lot of bad looks.”

Beyond her films, Janelle Ann Kidman was also sometimes critical of the outfits her daughter might wear to big events. “My mom thought I had a lot of bad looks on the red carpet. I remember wearing a headpiece once to the Golden Globes. I didn’t know what I was doing,” she continued.

Despite harsh criticism, Keith Urban’s wife was very close to his mother. She also gave valuable advice to her daughter. On December 15, Nicole Kidman shared on CBS the last words of the deceased. “These are the last words my mother said to me,” she confided. I had to take a plane, and she said to me, ‘You should take your time, because it’s important that you take care of yourself, Nicky.’