‘Marrying Tom protected me from being

SEXUALLY HARASSED’

Nicole Kidman says she had married Tom Cruise for love and tying the knot with the actor inadvertently shielded her from being sexually harassed in Hollywood. The 51-year-old actor, who was married to Cruise for 11 years, said after their divorce in 2001, she had to start looking after herself.

The 51-year-old actor, who was married to Cruise for 11 years, said after their divorce in 2001, she had to start looking after herself

“Being married to Tom Cruise at 22 is something I’m always reluctant to talk about, because I’m married now to the man who is my great love (Keith Urban), and it almost feels disrespectful,” she said.

“That said, I got married very young, but it definitely wasn’t power for me it was protection.”

“I married for love, but being married to an extremely powerful man kept me from being sexually harassed. I would work, but I was still very much cocooned. So when I came out of it at 32, 33, it’s almost like I had to grow up,” Kidman told The Cut magazine.

She touched upon the spread of the #Metoo movement but asserted that she does not want to name and shame her harassers.

“Of course I’ve had #Metoo moments since I was little! But do I want to expose them in an article? No. Do they come out in my work? Absolutely. I’m open and raw. Kidman is playing former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes.