Cruise denies Kidman has little to do with kids
May 3, 2008
Tom Cruise sat on a couch with Oprah Winfrey, but this time he refrained from jumping up and down on it. In Cruise’s first interview with the TV talkshow queen since his infamous 2005 couch bouncing incident, the actor was cool and calculated and dismissed rumours of a phony marriage to actor Katie Holmes and bad blood with his Australian ex-wife Nicole Kidman.
Cruise described his relationship with Kidman as “good” and “easy”. Kidman and Cruise, who divorced in 2001, adopted two children, Connor and Isabella during their 10-year union, and tabloids have alleged Kidman has little to do with her son and daughter. Winfrey repeatedly probed Cruise about the reports.
Oprah: “I read that she (Kidman) had been pushed out of the children’s lives. That’s what I read, Tom. So, true or not true?”
Tom: “No, that’s ridiculous.”
Oprah: “The children still maintain a relationship with her and see her?”
Tom: “Absolutely.”
Oprah: “Is there a time when everybody is together - Kate and Nicole and the family?”
Tom: “No, not like that. I mean, because (we’re) just so busy. It’s not that it’s not like that, but it hasn’t eventuated in that way. We share custody. Whenever. Whenever. That’s when it is.”