Nicole Kidman: I Was Warned Marrying Tom Cruise Could Cost Me My Career

Dia Dipasupil / Dia Dipasupil, WireImage Nicole Kidman said she was warned about marrying Tom Cruise.

The Oscar-winning actress, 59, confessed in an interview with British Vogue that she had conversations about how tying the knot with the action star, 64, could damage her career.

The pair met in 1989 while filming Tony Scott’s Days of Thunder , Kidman’s first Hollywood blockbuster; they married one year later and divorced 11 years after that, all while launching into global stardom amid intense tabloid speculation.

“Yeah, I got married so young,” she said.

“Suddenly I was 22, 23 years old and I had this huge movie star husband.

But it just seemed completely natural.

We just fell madly in love, and it was that simple.

I remember people saying to me, ‘OK, well this is really going to affect your career.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t care.

I’m in love.

I want to be married.’ And then I was his ‘wife,’ and they were like, ‘See, we told you.’ I’m like, ‘So what? I wasn’t meant to marry the man I love? Of course I’ll throw my career away.

I don’t care.’” Her marriage with Cruise forced her to grow comfortable in the public eye.

Despite her naturally shy demeanor, the press’s endless scrutiny doesn’t faze her, she explained.

“Strangely enough, I feel comfortable,” she said.

“Is that weird? That’s so weird.