Nicole Kidman Announces Death of Her Mom Janelle

Nicole Kidman Opens Up About Why Her Role successful ‘Family Affair’ Is Important (Exclusive)

Nicole Kidman is mourning the nonaccomplishment of her parent Janelle Ann Kidman.

The histrion announced the decease of her ma astatine property 84 done a connection that Halina Rejn, who directed her successful Babygirl, work onstage astatine the Venice Film Festival Sept. 6 portion accepting the star's grant for Best Actress.

"Today, I arrived successful Venice to find retired soon after, that my beautiful, brave parent Janelle Ann Kidman has conscionable passed," Nicole's statement said. "I americium successful daze and I person to spell to my family."

The connection continued, "But this grant is for her. She shaped me, she guided maine and she made me. I'm beyond grateful that I that I get to accidental her sanction to each of you done Halina. The collision of beingness and creation is heartbreaking, and my bosom is broken."

The origin of Janelle's decease was not made public.

Nicole's mother, who worked arsenic a nursing instructor, had suffered wellness issues successful caller years. In 2022, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oscar victor shared that she returned to her family's autochthonal Australia to beryllium with her mom.

"We're down present chiefly to instrumentality attraction of my mother," the now-57-year-old said successful an NPR interrogation successful January of that year, "and to person her surrounded by her grandchildren."

Nicole added that the household visited the Art Gallery of New South Wales together. "Even though [the] omicron [variant] is raging done this country, we were capable to instrumentality her into the assemblage aft hours and amusement her the Matisse exhibit," she said, "which coming from a parent who’s raised maine successful the arts, it was soothing balm."

The histrion added, "I'm astatine the spot wherever I'm being fixed the accidental to presumption the world—because of however adjacent we are, my ma is giving maine the accidental to presumption the satellite done an 81-year-old woman's eyes. That is truthful beneficial close present due to the fact that she's truthful cognizant. She has each faculty, encephalon faculty, available. She hasn't mislaid anything. She hasn't mislaid immoderate memory, which is fascinating."

Nicole's ma and dad Antony Kidman, who worked arsenic a psychologist, person been among their daughter's biggest cheerleaders passim her career. They occasionally accompanied her astatine personage events, including astatine the 2003 Oscars, wherever they cheered her connected from the assemblage arsenic she won her archetypal Academy Award for The Hours.

After the actress' begetter died astatine property 75 successful 2014, Nicole leaned connected the enactment of her husband, Keith Urban, and their daughters Sunday Rose, present 16, and Faith Margaret, 13.

"I called him screaming and crying and helium was astir to spell connected signifier and helium walked disconnected signifier and helium got connected a plane. He'd conscionable gotten there," the histrion said connected CBS Sundays Mornings  in 2016. "He flew six hours and helium was close backmost and helium virtually picked maine up and beauteous overmuch carried maine done the adjacent 2 weeks."

The histrion added, "And I besides had my children going, 'It's gonna beryllium alright, Mama.' It's absorbing the mode children presumption things, 'cause they're like, 'You've inactive got your mommy.'"

Janelle, who shared a adjacent enslaved with Nicole, had besides battled bosom crab successful 1985, erstwhile the Moulin Rouge star was 17.

"It was precise hard to spot your parent going done specified pain," Nicole told the Sydney Morning Herald successful 1997. "It opened my eyes to mortality, and to symptom and suffering, and from that constituent connected I was determined to enactment and beryllium a portion of and successful immoderate mode help."

Nicole and then-husband Tom Cruise went connected to concern the Women's Reproductive Cancer Center astatine UCLA. In 2023, 12 years aft they divorced, the histrion and Keith made a fiscal acquisition to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center successful Nashville to assistance money objective trials for bosom crab treatments.

In summation to the actress, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, Janelle is besides survived by the actress' younger sister Antonia Kidman, her six kids and Nicole and Tom's children Bella Kidman Cruise, 31, and Connor Cruise, 29.