Nicole Kidman Forced to Leave Venice Film Festival Due to Death of Mother

A nonrecreational milestone… and a idiosyncratic tragedy.

Nicole Kidman announced the decease of her parent Janelle connected September 6, the aforesaid day connected which she won Best Actress for her relation successful Babygirl astatine the Venice Film Festival.

Kidman’s ma was 84 years old.

Nicole Kidman attends Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix’s “The Perfect Couple” connected September 4, 2024 successful Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

The bittersweet quality was confirmed via a connection work connected signifier by Halina Rejn, who directed Kidman successful the aforementioned film.

“Today, I arrived successful Venice to find retired soon after, that my beautiful, brave parent Janelle Ann Kidman has conscionable passed,” Kidman’s connection 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.”

Nicole Kidman attends the UK Premiere of “The Perfect Couple” astatine the BFI IMAX Waterloo connected September 2, 2024 successful London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

The origin of Janelle’s decease is not known astatine this time.

Kidman’s mother, who worked arsenic a nursing instructor, had suffered wellness issues successful caller years.

In 2022, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Academy Award victor said that she returned to her family’s autochthonal Australia to beryllium with her sick parent.

“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.”

Added Kidman backmost then:

“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 Kidman attends a reddish carpet for “Babygirl” during the 81st Venice International Film Festival astatine connected August 30, 2024 successful Venice, Italy. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

In 2020, Kidman spoke with the Sydney Morning Herald astir the power her ma had connected her beingness and her astonishing career.

“She’s fixed maine the occurrence to prosecute the vocation I person due to the fact that I’ve ever wanted to delight her,” Kidman told the outlet, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

“But she besides carved her ain way and wanted her daughters to person the aforesaid accidental to carve their ain paths…

“Mum didn’t needfully get the vocation that she wanted, but she was determined that her daughters would person opportunities that were equal. That’s fixed maine my life. And she gave maine my life, she and my dad.”

We nonstop our condolences to Nicole Kidman, her friends, household members and each who knew Janelle.