Why did Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban fly home for Christmas? Real reason may break your heart
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban are getting ready to celebrate Christmas in Australia after flying into Sydney over the weekend with their daughters Faith, 12, and Sunday, 14. And the celebrations will be especially significant because this might be Kidman's last time with her mother Janelle, 81, who has been ill since January.
According to insiders, Kidman, 55, was aware that her time with Janelle was short and has made special plans to make this year's Christmas celebrations special. Urban, 55, expressed his desire to celebrate Christmas with his complete family to The Daily Telegraph in October, per Daily Mail.
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"My mum just turned 80 and Nic's mum … who knows how many Christmases we get with anybody ever, but particularly with our mums, I really cherish that chance to spend Chrissy with them and our family in Aus," Urban reportedly said, adding, "Having the kids in there is great but the extended family as well because we don't have any family in Nashville so it is incredible to have all of the cousins and aunts and uncles and everybody, it is just amazing," as per Daily Telegraph.
According to New Idea magazine, the 'Big Little Lies' actress and Urban will spend Christmas Day at Balmoral Beach on Sydney's North Shore with her mother and sister Antonia, her six children as well as his mother Marienne. Recently, Kidman and Urban's fathers, Antony and Bob, respectively, died. After landing in Sydney on Sunday, December 18, the couple promptly visited Janelle and were seen outside her house shortly after with a bag full of goodies.
In an interview in January on the 'Fresh Air' program, Kidman previously discussed her mother's health difficulties. The Oscar Award winner referred to the Matisse: Life & Spirit exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as a "soothing balm" and said that they had been able to get there after hours. "We're down here primarily to take care of my mother and to have her surrounded by her grandchildren," she reportedly stated, adding, "So luckily yesterday, even though Omicron is raging through this country, we were able to take her into the gallery after hours and show her the Matisse exhibit, which coming from a mother who's raised me in the arts, it was soothing balm. Matisse was soothing balm last night."
Later in the conversation, Kidman expressed gratitude for the opportunity to experience the world through her mother's eyes, calling it "so beneficial." "I'm at the place where I'm being given the chance to view the world, because of how close we are, my mum is giving me the chance to view the world through an 81-year-old woman's eyes," she said. "That is so beneficial right now, because she's so cognisant. She has every brain faculty available, so she hasn't lost anything. She hasn't lost any memory, which is fascinating, and she's extremely bright. She's giving me access, because she's also very direct and very honest, and so I'm getting access to the world through her eyes, my mother's eyes, so therefore a part of me almost at 80." She concluded, "It's her perspective, obviously. There's many different 80-year-old perspectives, but it's her perspective, and her particular path, but I'm drinking it in and learning."