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‘I’ve been hurt’

Nicole Kidman reflects on marriage to Tom Cruise

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Nicole Kidman is convinced she helped fuel media intrusion during her marriage to Tom Cruise by being “too open.”

Kidman covers the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar and makes a rare reference to her superstar first husband, who she was married to from 1990 to 2001, in the accompanying interview.

Asked whether she resented the ongoing tabloid frenzy over her relationship with the Top Gun star — and its unravelling — the Oscar winner admits she didn’t handle things as well as she might have, because she was “young” and not “shutdown” enough.

“I was young. I think I offered it up?,” she reveals, laughing before adding, “Maybe I’ve gotten a bit more trepidatious, but I’m always trying to be as open as possible. I just prefer to live in the world that way ...”

Kidman admits she’s wiser and more “wary” now, but she still errs on the side of taking a “warm” approach.

“I’m wary at times,” she adds, “and I’ve been hurt, but at the same time I much prefer a warm approach rather than a prickly shut-down approach. My husband, Keith (Urban), says that when he met me, he said, ‘How’s your heart?’ And I apparently responded, ‘Open.’ ”

Nicole Kidman gave some rare insight into the intense media scrutiny she and ex-husband Tom Cruise faced during their 11-year relationship.

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