Nicole Kidman is not an estranged parent when it comes to her older kids - Connor and Bella Cruise. The Australian actress revealed in a new interview with DuJour magazine that she keeps in touch with them using text messages, US Weekly reported.
"I have four children, so to stay in touch with them it's very important," Kidman, 48, explained. "I'm definitely engaged in it but I don't let it rule my life." Kidman has daughters Sunday Rose, 7, and Faith Margaret, 4, with husband Keith Urban.
Kidman and Tom Cruise, 53, adopted Bella, 22, and Connor, 20, after marrying in 1990, US Weekly recalled. The couple split in 2000. Back in March, "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" director Alex Gibney insinuated that the Church of Scientology turned Connor and Bella against Kidman, which the church denied.
"I've chosen not to speak publicly about Scientology. I have two children who are Scientologists-Connor and Isabella-and I utterly respect their beliefs," Kidman told Vanity Fair in 2013.
"They are generous, kind and hardworking. And these are traits that I love to see in my children," she added to "Women's Weekly" in May 2014. "They live with Tom, which was their choice. I'd love them to live with us, but what can you do?"
Kidman may text her kids, but the style in which she keeps in touch with her husband, Urban, 47, is more old school.
"My husband and I never text each other. We never do. Once in a blue moon, we'll text. But mainly we say, 'I want to hear your voice,'" she told the mag. "That's very unusual but we've been together for 10 years. We started like that and we haven't changed it. We don't email each other either. So it's about trying to keep it as intimate and personal as possible."
And that they do. Kidman and the country singer try their best to see each other despite their busy schedules, US weekly reported.
"I'm lucky that we have such a strong family unit. I have an incredible husband who is so willing to get on planes and fly places, even if it's for a night," Kidman explained in the report. "I had an opening of the play [Photograph 51] three nights ago, and he's in the middle of a tour in the States. I said, 'It's too much for you to have to fly all the way back, don't worry,' and he said, 'I'm flying.'"
