Across the time Cruise separated from Rogers, he met Kidman in 1989 whereas filming the film “Days of Thunder.” The 2 hit it off instantly, with Cruise later revealing (by way of Newsweek), “My first response to assembly Nic was pure lust . . . It was completely bodily.” The pair wed simply months after assembly in December 1990 in a non-public ceremony held in Colorado, in accordance with Leisure Weekly.
After starring within the 1992 movie “Far and Away,” the couple adopted a child woman, Bella Kidman Cruise, shortly after she was born on Dec. 22, 1992, per Folks. Bella’s adoption got here after Kidman had a being pregnant loss, which Kidman opened up about in a 2007 interview with Vainness Truthful. “From the minute Tom and I had been married, I needed to have infants . . . And we misplaced a child early on, in order that was actually very traumatic. And that is after we would undertake [our daughter] Bella,” she stated (by way of Folks). Three years later, Kidman and Cruise adopted their second baby, a boy named Connor Kidman Cruise, after his beginning on Jan. 17, 1995.
For almost all of the ’90s, the 2 had been one among Hollywood’s best energy {couples}. They might collaborate on display screen once more in 1999 and star as lovers in Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Huge Shut” collectively, however their marriage deteriorated not lengthy after. In February 2001, the couple introduced their separation. The divorce submitting cited “difficulties inherent in divergent careers” because the trigger for the connection’s finish, per Leisure Weekly, although many speculated the break up to be partially attributed to the pair’s variations in spiritual beliefs. “Scientology had NOTHING to do with this,” Pat Kingsley, the couple’s former consultant, assured on the time.