Yahoo News Nicole Kidman shuts down personal interview questions
Nicole Kidman swerved awkward questioning about her husband Keith Urban's past alcoholism and "strained" relationship with her adoptive children during BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
She was promoting her critically-acclaimed new movie Lion, based on true events about an Australian woman adopting a child from Calcutta.
Speaking about her own experience of adoption – Nicole and her ex-husband Tom Cruise have two adopted children, Isabella and Connor – she told presenter Jenni Young: "I think I'm very similar [to Sue – the character she plays] in the sense that I had a vision and I had that vision when I was very young...
"I very much related to Sue."
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- BBC Radio 4 (@BBCRadio4) January 20, 2017
Jenni then pressed about personal matters, fearlessly asking the Hours star: "We have read that there have been strained relationships with the children you adopted with Tom Cruise.
"How true is that? And if it is true, how do you manage it?"
Nicole refused to divulge, responding diplomatically and saying: "I don't discuss any of it.
"I don't discuss any of my children in terms of their privacy. All I say is there's unconditional love, and it's that simple."
Jenni continued to delve regardless, as she touched on Nicole's husband Keith Urban's past battles with addiction.
"We know that he struggled with alcohol in the past," she said. "How do you support someone who's struggling with alcoholism in the way that you did?"
This prompted Nicole to exclaim: "God, you guys are personal!"
She then avoided answering, saying simply: "That's for him to talk about. Our marriage is an example of working through it with an outcome where you can be together and where he's sober and very happy."
And when Jenni attempted to discuss the extent to which partners are involved in the recovery programs for spouses, Nicole said: "Well, we could do a whole program on that."
Dev Patel stars opposite Nicole in the film adapted from Saroo Brierley's book A Long Way Home.
Lion sees Dev's character Saroo, who was adopted when he was 5, attempt to track down his birth family 25 years later.
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