Around the time Cruise separated from Rogers, he met Kidman in 1989 whereas filming the film “Days of Thunder.” The two 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 personal ceremony held in Colorado, based on Entertainment Weekly.
After starring within the 1992 movie “Far and Away,” the couple adopted a child lady, Bella Kidman Cruise, shortly after she was born on Dec. 22, 1992, per People. Bella’s adoption got here after Kidman had a being pregnant loss, which Kidman opened up about in a 2007 interview with Vanity Fair. “From the minute Tom and I had been married, I wished to have infants . . . And we misplaced a child early on, in order that was actually very traumatic. And that is once we would undertake [our daughter] Bella,” she stated (by way of People). Three years later, Kidman and Cruise adopted their second youngster, a boy named Connor Kidman Cruise, after his delivery on Jan. 17, 1995.
For nearly all of the ’90s, the 2 had been one among Hollywood’s best energy {couples}. They would collaborate on display once more in 1999 and star as lovers in Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide 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 Entertainment Weekly, although many speculated the break up to be partially attributed to the pair’s variations in non secular beliefs. “Scientology had NOTHING to do with this,” Pat Kingsley, the couple’s former consultant, assured on the time.