Kidman and nation singer City, additionally 58, who married in 2006 in Sydney, share two daughters – Sunday Rose, 17, and Religion Margaret, 14 – and had been residing largely separate skilled lives in recent times, with work pulling them to reverse sides of the world.
Information of the cut up emerged earlier this yr, shortly after they had been final photographed collectively at a World Cup match in June. Kidman, selling her newest movie Babygirl, has now begun to talk publicly in regards to the emotional toll of the breakup.
She advised a shiny journal: “There’s one thing to figuring out that regardless of how painful, or how tough, or how devastating one thing is, there’s a method via. You are going to must really feel it. You are not going to have the ability to numb it.
“You will must really feel it, and it is going to really feel insurmountable at occasions. You are going to really feel such as you’re damaged, however when you transfer gently and slowly – and it will possibly take an unlimited period of time – it does cross.”
A therapist aware of the state of affairs mentioned Kidman was taking a wholesome method by permitting grief to unfold.