Nicole Kidman has shared her new career path, discovered after the loss of her mother.
Speaking at the University of San Francisco’s War Memorial Gym, she discussed her new career goal, admitting it “may sound a little weird.”
Nicole Kidman’s Career Change: An Admirable Role To Help Others Through Grieving
During the speech, Kidman revealed what had led to her decision to pursue a career as an end-of-life doula.
“An end-of-life doula advocates self-determination and imparts psychosocial, emotional, spiritual, and practical care to empower dignity throughout the dying process,” says the International End-of-Life Doula Association.
“As my mother was passing, she was lonely, and there was only so much the family could provide,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported her as saying.
“Between my sister and I, we have so many children and our careers and our work, and wanting to take care of her because my father wasn’t in the world anymore,” she continued.
“That’s when I went, ‘I wish there was these people in the world that were there to sit impartially and just provide solace and care.’ So thatâs part of my expansion and one of the things I will be learning.”
The “Holland” actress has four children, while her sister Antonia Kidman is a mother to six.
Kidman Speaks On Close Relationship With Her Mother
Kidman sadly lost her mother in 2024, ten years after her father’s passing. In an interview with Extra, she described her mother as “a major guide through my life and probably my compass in terms of everything I did.”
She reportedly learned of her mother’s passing at the Venice Film Festival, per US Weekly. In a statement read by “Babygirl” director Halina Reijn, Kidman dedicated her Best Actress award to her mother.
“I am beyond grateful that I get to say her name to all of you through Halina,” the statement said. “The collision of life and art is heart-breaking, and my heart is broken.”
Kidman described the close relationship with her mother in a 2020 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. She called her “my mentor, my guide and my nurturer.”
“She’s given me the fire to pursue the career I have because I’ve always wanted to please her,” she said. “But she also carved her own path and wanted her daughters to have the same opportunity to carve their own paths.”
“Mum didn’t necessarily get the career that she wanted, but she was determined that her daughters would have opportunities that were equal,” she continued.
“That’s given me my life. And she gave me my life, she and my dad.”
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