Tom Cruise — who finally secured his long-awaited Oscar just yesterday — has now spoken out about the highly publicized split between Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. According to an insider, the 63-year-old actor described their breakup as “karma” arriving right on schedule.
Nicole and Keith recently announced the end of their 19-year marriage, and sources close to International Business Times say the news unexpectedly gave Tom a quiet sense of satisfaction. Back in 2001, when he and Nicole parted ways, Cruise was unofficially made the villain of the story.
Most of the blame landed on him, while Kidman received overwhelming sympathy and the flattering role of Hollywood’s heartbroken heroine. Meanwhile, Tom kept quiet, avoided drama, and took the heat like a true professional—while Nicole appeared on TV making jokes about his height.
Now, with Nicole facing new personal turmoil, insiders report that Tom feels a subtle sense of relief. They say he was always annoyed by how Keith Urban was portrayed almost as a saintly figure—someone who supposedly rescued Nicole from the “trauma” of her marriage to Cruise. And now that this picture-perfect romance has burst like a bubble, Tom isn’t openly celebrating, but deep down, he’s quietly uncorking a symbolic bottle of champagne.
Still, despite the faint tone of triumph, Tom isn’t entirely reveling in their downfall. Sources say he’s following the divorce news closely and even feels some compassion for Nicole. He knows better than most how emotionally brutal public breakups can be.
At the end of the day, Cruise has long believed Nicole and Keith’s relationship was more about image than genuine connection. And now that the illusion has cracked, he feels like someone who predicted the plot twist two decades before it happened.
For context: in the ’90s, Tom and Nicole were one of Hollywood’s brightest power couples, and their 2001 split shocked the industry. One of the main reasons cited was Kidman’s refusal to convert herself and their children to Scientology.
