Is This Why Nicole Kidman And Tom Cruise Really Got Divorced?

Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise first met on the set of their film Days of Thunder. Cruise had recently divorced his wife, Mimi Rogers, and he married Kidman only ten months after the divorce was finalized. While not a lot is known about their early relationship or proposal, the pair worked together on two more films: Far and Away and Eyes Wide Shut, and were pop-culture fixtures for years to come. 

"He basically swept me off my feet," Kidman told Vanity Fair about their courtship. "I fell madly, passionately in love. And as happens when you fall in love, my whole plan in terms of what I wanted for my life—I was like, 'Forget it. This is it.' I was consumed by it, willingly. And I was desperate to have a baby with him. I didn't care if we were married. That's what I wish I'd done."

This union was apparently not meant to last, however. Their 11-year-long marriage came crashing to a halt in 2001, to the surprise of many. But a look into what could have led to the end of the relationship is quite revealing.

Nicole Kidman stayed quiet for a long time after her divorce, but she eventually began opening up to media outlets about her marriage to Tom Cruise. Cruise filed for divorce out of nowhere, and Kidman later revealed that he refused to attend counseling or to consider not divorcing. Her court filings from the time also reveal that Kidman was pregnant as the pair celebrated their 10th anniversary, but lost the baby.

"During the balance of December and thereafter the parties were intimate and she became pregnant by petitioner but lost the baby through a miscarriage," court documents state, according to the Daily Mail. Cruise ended up being awarded full custody of the pair's children, Connor and Isabella.

In 2009, Marie Claire published a report in which Kidman lashed out at Cruise about her marriage, with the actress noting that the emphasis in their marriage was always on him. "I felt I became a star only by association. We would go to the Oscars and I would think, 'I'm here to support him,'" Kidman told Easy Living magazine at the time. "I felt it was my job to put on a beautiful dress and be seen and not heard."

Rumors also abounded that the Church of Scientology felt Kidman wanted Cruise to leave the organization, so they stepped in to end the marriage, according to the Daily Beast. For his part, Cruise has always maintained (via Daily Mail) that "Nicole knows why" they divorced.