Nicole Kidman can at all times rely on her girlfriends for help.
The Babygirl actress, 58, advised Vogue that she has an in depth group of associates in Nashville. together with her Huge Little Lies costar Reese Witherspoon, who lives throughout the road, “a senior oncologist at Vanderbilt Hospital and one other buddy who runs a hospital,” based on the outlet.
“Journey-or-die friendships,” Kidman known as them.
Whereas Kidman’s interview was performed previous to information of her cut up from Keith City and printed on Wednesday, October 8, the interviewer famous that the divorce didn’t come as a shock, partly due to her response to a query about how she was feeling at this level in her life.
“What number of occasions do it’s a must to be taught that you simply suppose you already know the place your life goes after which it isn’t stepping into that path?” she stated.
Us Weekly confirmed on September 29 that she and City, 57, had separated after 19 years of marriage. The Sensible Magic 2 star filed for divorce the next day, citing “irreconcilable variations” as the rationale for the cut up, based on court docket docs obtained by Us.
Together with the divorce submitting, Kidman submitted a marital dissolution settlement signed by each herself and City. The settlement included a number of paperwork associated to their two daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Religion Margaret, 14, together with a parenting plan, a toddler help plan and a “parenting seminar order.”
Whereas the cut up got here as a shock to many followers, others had seen potential indicators. The estranged couple was final noticed out in public collectively at a soccer recreation in June, and so they hadn’t posted about one another on their respective social media pages in months. City’s newest submit that includes Kidman got here in Could after he received the Triple Crown Award on the Academy of Nation Music Awards, whereas Kidman paid tribute to City on their anniversary in June.

GettyImages-2213497838Keith City and Nicole Kidman on the sixtieth Academy Of Nation Music Awards on Could 08, 2025 in Frisco, Texas. Christopher Polk/Penske Media through Getty Pictures
Kidman made her first public look because the cut up information broke on the amfAR Dallas profit gala on October 4, the place she introduced Lioness creator Taylor Sheridan with the Award of Inspiration. Days later, Kidman stepped out with contemporary bangs in her hair and had her daughters by her aspect on the Chanel Womenswear Spring/Summer time 2026 present throughout Paris Vogue Week on Monday, October 6.
In the meantime, City carried out his first live performance post-split on October 2. He was noticed with out his wedding ceremony ring whereas touching down in his personal jet in Hershey, Pennsylvania, hours earlier than the present. Later, throughout his Excessive and Alive Tour cease at Hershey’s Big Middle, he included a photograph of Kidman and their daughters in a premade slideshow whereas he carried out “Coronary heart Like a Hometown.”
Kidman’s utility participant Maggie Baugh was not current on the live performance after the pair made headlines amid his cut up from Kidman for a lyric change he made in his music “The Fighter.” Whereas performing the Kidman-inspired music with Baugh, 25, throughout his September 25 live performance in Chicago, City sang, “Maggie, I’ll be your guitar participant,” as an alternative of, “I’ll be your fighter.”
Baugh confronted backlash when she took to Instagram with footage of the second on September 26, including within the caption, “Did he simply say that 👀.”
Amid rumors that Maggie performed a task in the long run of Kidman and City’s marriage, her father, Chuck Baugh, took to Fb on October 1 to close down the hypothesis.
“NO. Simply no,” he wrote alongside a TikTok video claiming that Maggie might “allegedly [be] the particular person chargeable for Keith’s divorce from Nicole Kidman.”
Whereas Maggie has but to talk out on the rumors, she returned to Instagram after the controversy on Monday to share that she would have an “announcement coming quickly.”