Nicole Kidman talks in regards to the day she discovered her mom had died.
The 58-year-old actress spoke Saturday through the Historical past Channel’s HISTORYTalks 2026 reside speaker sequence about quite a lot of issues, together with studying of her mom’s dying simply earlier than accepting the very best actress award for “Babygirl” on the Venice Movie Pageant in September 2024.
“I gained greatest actress on the Venice Movie Pageant. That appears to be a quite common theme in my life,” she stated, in response to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I used to be about to go on stage and discovered my mom had handed away. I went straight again to my room in Venice, went to mattress and was fully devastated.”
She remembers feeling like she did not know the way she might go on with out her mom, saying, “she was such part of my existence. The thought of being there at that individual second was heartbreaking.”
The “Large Little Lies” star went on to say that “the considered being there at that individual second was heartbreaking” and he or she started taking steps to depart Venice as shortly as potential.
“I bear in mind getting on a ship on the canal and actually at night time looking for my approach to the airport after which turning round and leaving, I am unable to even make it,” she stated.
“After which I obtained again into mattress, and I used to be alone. My husband wasn’t there. My children weren’t there. I had gone to win an award. What ought to have been a fantastic factor ended up there. However there’s the distinction of life.”
After going by this tragic expertise alone, Kidman says she now tells individuals “that is once I know I am resilient” and that “I can survive virtually something.”
Kidman’s mom, Janelle, died in September 2024 on the age of 84.
Two years after her mom’s dying, the Oscar winner shared with investigative journalist Vicky Nguyen on the personal faculty’s Silk Speaker sequence that she was contemplating changing into a dying doula.
“On the time of my mom’s dying, she felt alone and the household could not present for her,” Kidman stated in response to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Between my sister and I, we’ve so many kids and our careers and our jobs, and we wish to maintain her as a result of my father was not on this planet, and that is once I was like, ‘I want there have been these individuals on this planet who have been there to take a seat down impartially and simply give her consolation and care.'”
Kidman shares two daughters – Sunday Rose, 17, and Religion Margaret, 15 – together with her ex-husband, Keith City, whereas her sister, Antonia, has six kids.
The actress has spoken about her shut bond together with her mom on a number of events over time, telling the Sydney Morning Herald how her mom all the time pushed her to comply with her desires, saying: “she cast her personal path and needed her daughters to have the identical alternative to forge their very own path.”
“Mother did not essentially have the profession she needed, however she was decided that her daughters would have equal alternatives,” Kidman added.
“It gave me my life. And he or she gave me my life, her and my father.”
Kidman is following in her mom’s footsteps as a supportive mom, supporting her daughter, Sunday Rose, in her budding modeling profession.
She made her runway debut at Paris Trend Week in 2025, strolling for Miu Miu.