Nicole Kidman, lately so the queen of keeping mum, has a pretty exposed interview running in Sunday's Parade mag. Fabulous that, for first time in a while, she's really very forthcoming. This is the Nic we used to know. Accessible (sorta), confessional, sweet.
Nicky yaks about going "to hell and back" with hub-unit Keith while he was rehabbing, her motherly instinct over baby Sunday and even confirms her Cruise-shared kids, Isabella and Connor, were in fact raised as Scientologists. Fascinating stuff that is so clearly a calculated bit of info, as, in times prior, nothing was ever said about the kids. Ever.
What's more telling, though, is what's missing from this candid spill...
We give N.K. superbig kudos for blabbing long enough to get those tidbits out. But once again, another opportunity to take the blame for the pap fight her bodyguard got into earlier this year was lost. And mind you, this wasn't just a scuffle. It was a bit of a bloodbath, something UNICEF's Ambassador of Goodwill really shouldn't be endorsing.
Jeez, Nic, we love ya to pieces, and we'd be happy even if ya just admitted that it happened. Tell your side, hon. We're all dying to know how you're not responsible for the beat-down. But no, the whole brutal bashing is swept under the rug, again. What we're even more pissed about is that the interviewer, in these days of butt-smooching nonjournalism, didn't even ask Ms. Kidman about the ugly ordeal. Or did he?
—Additional sass by Becky Bain