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Kidman says lockdown has been 'very hard' for her kids

Nicole Kidman has spent part of lockdown in Australia while filming Nine Perfect Strangers
Nicole Kidman has spent part of lockdown in Australia while filming Nine Perfect Strangers

Nicole Kidman has said her kids, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, have found lockdown and social distancing "very difficult" and that they are "working through their emotions". 

Kidman shares her two daughters with husband Keith Urban. She also has two children with ex-husband Tom Cruise, Connor, 25 and Isabella, 27. 

The Big Little Lies star explained that while her daughters are used to attending school online because of their parents' careers, they are finding being socially distance from family and friends particularly hard. 

Speaking to Glamour magazine, Kidman said: "Our kids - because we travel, and we won't be apart - are used to having to learn online, but the social distance has been very difficult for them. They are working through the emotions."

"For a 12-year-old, it's about not being able to access friends easily - that's a whole thing which every parent will be going through. And then, there's a nine-year-old, who's socially forming. One of the hardest things is just watching them pine and yearn for their friends. I pine and yearn for my friends too."

Kidman and her daughters have spent part of lockdown with her sister Antonia and three of her kids, as they moved in with her while the star was filming Nine Perfect Strangers in Australia.

She said: "I just love kids. I said once, 'I prefer children to adults.' I like adults more now, not more than kids, though.

"I love being around children and we've got five kids living with me now because Keith had to go back [to Nashville] to release his album. So, my sister moved in to help me while I'm filming, and we have three of her younger kids - she has six - living with us.

"It's just fun because I just find their perspective not so heavy. It puts you in a more childlike place where you go, 'I can move through this and it can be fleeting. It doesn't have to become a massive weight.' "

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