Nicole Kidman: A Kind of Life by Dickerson James L

Author:Dickerson, James L. [Dickerson, James L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Sartoris Literary Group
Published: 2014-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

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The same month that Eyes Wide Shut was released, Esquire published a feature story about Nicole that painted a picture of the actress that was devastatingly unflattering. Tom Junod, a Georgia-based feature writer who went to Australia to interview Nicole for the article, walked away with a story that was kinky enough to ensure his own celebrity.

Nicole was most generous with her time, giving the writer a tour of the bridge that her grandfather helped build, drinking with him at a colorful pub called the Glenmore Hotel, and dining with him at a Japanese restaurant. The way Junod told it, Nicole had a bit too much to drink and got a wee bit tipsy . . . well, drunk.

On Junod’s last night in Sydney. Nicole insisted on dropping by his hotel to tell him goodbye. According to Junod, when she arrived at his room she glanced at his computer screen and then climbed into his bed to get “comfortable.” No sooner had he climbed into the bed to lay beside her, than the telephone rang. It was Tom and he was looking for his wife, since he and the children were waiting for her at a Chinese restaurant and everyone was getting hungry.

“Yeah, Tom,” Junod answered. “She’s right here, in my hotel room. In my bed.”

There was a pause, according to Junod, and Tom said, “Yeah, in your dreams, buddy.”

With that, Junod held the telephone out in Nicole’s direction and asked her to confirm that she was, indeed, in his bed.

“I’m afraid so, darling,” Nicole called out to her husband. “I’m afraid I’m in his bed at this very moment.”

If true—and he did seem to suggest that he and Nicole were having an intimate encounter of some kind—it was an odd thing for Junod to write about in his article. So odd, that Junod himself became the subject of media attention. In an interview with USA Today, he seemed to back away from suggesting a sexual encounter. He explained it by saying, “The story is and was a flirtation. I was flirting with her, not only when reporting, but when writing. It’s that genre of celebrity journalism. And she flirted back. I just think we kind of liked each other. Of course, it was professional.”

Nicole was oddly silent about the article. After the stresses that she underwent making Eyes Wide Shut, dealing with the real-life jealousies and insecurities that had crept into her marriage, Junod’s article was the last thing she needed in her life, even if it was written in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek style. No one knows for certain, since neither she nor Tom has ever discussed the article publicly, but it surely must have caused a rife.

Emotionally, Nicole and Tom were depleted. The publicity surrounding Eyes Wide Shut was nearly as draining as making the film itself. The marriage of Hollywood’s most perfect couple was headed for trouble, not because of the article, but because of an accumulation of marital stresses. The article merely demonstrated how truly needy Nicole was at that time in her life.

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