The ice queen of Hollywood freezes out another husband
The ink is finally dry on the divorce papers, and Nicole Kidman is officially back on the market! In a move that has left the industry reeling, the Babygirl star and country crooner Keith Urban finalized their split in January . After nearly twenty years of red carpet PDA and gushing interviews, the dream is dead. Neither party is walking away with alimony, but the emotional cost is clearly mounting as Nicole adds another high-profile name to her list of former flames.
While the PR teams are trying to play it cool, we are looking back at a dating history that reads like a tabloid thriller. Nicole has a very specific pattern: she meets a man on set, falls hard, and then leaves a trail of heartbroken exes in her wake. From the shores of Australia to the hills of Hollywood, no one is safe when Kidman decides it is time to move on to the next leading man.
Tom Burlinson and the first adult conquest
Before she was a global icon, Nicole was just an ambitious actress on the set of the flick Windrider. That is where she snared Tom Burlinson. He was eleven years her senior and has since gone on the record saying he was her first real relationship as an adult. They spent three years together, but Nicole was already looking toward the horizon. Burlinson later had to shut down rumors that he proposed only for her to shut him down.
Even back then, it was clear that Nicole had her own path to take, and anyone in her way was just a temporary stop. She was young, she was hungry, and she was ready for bigger prey. The Aussie scene was never going to be enough for a woman with her sights set on the Hollywood A-list.
The Marcus Graham heartbreak and the Tom Cruise heist
If you want to talk about a scandalous exit, look no further than Marcus Graham. Nicole was dating the actor in the late eighties when she landed a role in Days of Thunder. One look at Tom Cruise and it was game over for poor Marcus. Graham later admitted he was devastated and heartbroken when Nicole basically dumped him to run off with the biggest movie star on the planet. He spent a long time crying while Nicole was jet-setting across the globe with her new man.
It was a ruthless move that proved Nicole was willing to trade up the second a better opportunity appeared. She hit it off with Cruise instantly, and they were married by the end of . The whirlwind romance saw them adopting two kids, Isabella and Connor, but the shadow of the Church of Scientology and the intense pressure of being Hollywood royalty eventually turned the marriage into a gilded cage.
She basically left him for Tom Cruise and he was left crying for months. Talk about a cold move!
The intoxicating collapse of the Cruise era
For eleven years, Nicole and Tom were the gold standard of power couples. But behind the scenes, things were getting dark. When Cruise filed for divorce in , Nicole was reportedly blindsided. She later told Vanity Fair that she was willing to give up everything for him, claiming she was consumed and intoxicated by the relationship. She would have walked to the end of the earth, but Tom had other plans.
The fallout was legendary. Nicole famously celebrated her freedom, but she was also reeling. She had given up a lot of herself to be Mrs. Cruise, and the “prickly shutdown approach” she mentioned to Harper’s Bazaar seemed to start right here. She was hurt, she was wary, and she was ready to reinvent herself as a solo powerhouse.
The secret engagement to Lenny Kravitz
Most fans forget that Nicole almost became a rock star wife! In , she started a low-key romance with Lenny Kravitz. It was so secret that nobody even knew they were engaged until Nicole let it slip years later during the Big Little Lies press tour. She was living in his apartment and playing step-mom to a young Zoe Kravitz before they called it quits in .
Why did it fail? Lenny has been vague, saying some things just don’t work, but the timing was suspicious. Nicole was at the height of her Oscar-winning fame, and Lenny was, well, Lenny. The secret engagement remains one of the most mysterious chapters in her dating book. She clearly has a thing for men with a bit of a “bad boy” edge, even if she tries to maintain a polished image.
Keith Urban: The best thing or the final mistake
Then came the country singer. They met at the G Day USA Gala in , and despite Keith waiting months to call her, they tied the knot in . Nicole has called him the best thing that ever happened to her, and they seemed to have it all with daughters Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret. But as we reported in September , the cracks were finally too big to ignore. The sudden split after nearly two decades has left everyone wondering what really went wrong in that Nashville mansion.
Was it his past struggles, or her intense work schedule? They were always “working through stuff,” which is usually celebrity code for “the marriage is on life support.” Now that the divorce is final as of January , Nicole is single and ready to mingle once again. With a history like hers, you can bet she already has someone in her sights. The question is: who is the next man brave enough to step into the Kidman cycle?
The cliffhanger: Is a new co-star next
The divorce papers are still warm, but Nicole is already back on sets and hitting the red carpets. History tells us that she rarely stays single for long, and her favorite place to find love is at the office. Is there a secret co-star already waiting in the wings? We are hearing whispers that a certain male lead has been spending a lot of time in Nicole’s trailer lately. Could another whirlwind romance be just around the corner, or has the ice queen finally decided to go it alone?
Would you like me to look into the rumored sightings of Nicole with her newest co-star or dig into the hidden details of the Nashville property settlement?
