The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival will be remembered by Nicole Kidman as one of the most bitter of her life. The actress was in the Italian city ready to attend the Closing Ceremony to collect the Volpi Cup for Best Actress when she received the terrible news that Her mother had died after a long illness, about which Kidman never wanted to give more details.
Given this fact, The singer decided to travel to her hometown to say goodbye to hercollecting her award was the director of her latest film, Haila Rijn, who read a statement on behalf of the actress. “Today I arrived in Venice to find out immediately after the fact that my wonderful and brave mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, had just passed away. I’m in shock and I have to be with my family, But this award is for her. She helped me and made me who I am and my greatest gratitude is to be able to say her name in front of all of you. My heart is broken. “I love you, Nicole,” he concluded.
Just a week earlier, the actress had been with Antonio Banderas presenting ‘Babygirl’, a film in which they both star, and for which she was to receive such high recognition, without imagining how his time at the festival would ultimately turn out.
The relationship between Nicole and her mother has always been very narrowkeeping her in mind at every step she has taken on the arduous path of Hollywood. In addition to being aware that her career would not have been possible without her support, Janelle Ann always advised her: “focus, get up off the ground and keep going”For Kidman and her sister, their mother was always a role model, and the actress has shown images of her several times when she worked as a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney.
During the pandemic, they were forced to spend a lot of time apart, with Kidman sharing the emotional reunion of both of them that she told about“It feels so good to be able to hug my mother!” After that, the actress and her partner, musician Keith Urban, often traveled to Australia so that Janelle Ann Kidman could enjoy her two granddaughters. Sunday Rose (16) y Faith Margaret (14).
In addition, the actress is very aware of the terrible disease of cancer, because her mother suffered from it when Kidman was only 17 years old. Since then fight to “eradicate this disease.”
A terrible event on a day that should have been happy for the actress, who had received very good reviews after its appearance at the festival.
The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival will be remembered by Nicole Kidman as one of the most bitter of her life. The actress was in the Italian city ready to attend the Closing Ceremony to collect the Volpi Cup for Best Actress when she received the terrible news that Her mother had died after a long illness, about which Kidman never wanted to give more details.