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Nicole kidman and cHildren connor and isaBella

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When Nicole, 50, split from Tom Cruise in 2001 after 11 years together, their two adoptive children Isabella, 25, and Connor, 22, continued to live with their father and followed him into the Church of Scientolog­y. While she told Vogue in 2015, “I have two children who are Scientolog­ists and I utterly respect their beliefs”, she hasn’t been pictured with Isabella for 12 years and was notably absent from her wedding to IT consultant Max Parker the same year. And she also seems to have a habit of not mentioning her adoptive children when accepting awards while simultaneo­usly acknowledg­ing her daughters with husband Keith Urban, Sunday and Faith, appearing to snub them first at the Emmy Awards in September 2017 and then at the Golden Globes this January. actress had troubles with drugs, depression and self-harm. Although they enjoyed sporadic reconcilia­tions, most memorably when Voight, 79, starred as her father in the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, that same year she broke off all contact after he publicly begged his daughter to seek help for her “serious mental health problems”. Angelina also legally petitioned to remove the “Voight” from her name.

They appeared to bury the hatchet in 2010 but things once again deteriorat­ed. Voight has said he learned of her 2013 double mastectomy only from press reports, and was notably absent from the guest list for her wedding to Brad Pitt the following year. When the British singing superstar collected her Grammy Award for record of the year last year, she took the opportunit­y to make a point of snubbing her father, even as she thanked her manager. “I love you so, so much,” she said, “I don’t love my dad, that’s the thing. That doesn’t mean a lot. I love you like I would love my dad.”

Marc, 54, left Adele, 30, and her mother when she was just three years old and revealed in 2011 that his alcoholism may have been to blame. “I was a rotten father at a time when she really needed me,” he said. But it was his suggestion that her angsty lyrics could have their roots in his absence that really drove a wedge between father and daughter.

“He’s f***ing blown it,” she said. “He will never hear from me again. It makes me angry. To come back after 10 years and be like, ‘Maybe her problem with men comes down to me.’ It’s like, how dare you comment on my life? It makes my blood boil.”

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