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Nicole Kidman said that her marriage to Tom Cruise protected her from the sexual harassment in Hollywood because of her star status.

"I got married very young, but it was certainly not a power for me, it was a protection," Kidman writes in an essay published in the latest issue of the New York Magazine on Women and the Family. power.

She continued, "I married for love, but being married to an extremely powerful man prevented me from being sexually harassed, I would work, but I was still very cocooned."

Kidman, 51, and Cruise, 56, have begun a flash romance after a meeting on the set of "Days of Thunder" of the 1990s. The co-stars said "yes" this year and then adopted two children together .

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The 11-year marriage between Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman ended in 2001. Here, the couple was all smiles during a photocall in Paris on September 2, 1999. (Photo: MICHEL EULER, Associated Press)

Their marriage ended more than ten years later, in 2001, but Kidman says their relationship is still difficult to discuss.

"I am always reluctant to get married to Tom Cruise at the age of 22, because I am now married to the man who is my big love (Keith Urban), and it's almost disrespectful, "she writes. (Kidman married the country singer in 2006 and they have two daughters together.)

But the star of "Big Little Lies" says that she was forced to "grow up" after breaking up with Cruise in her early thirties.

"Of course, I had # MeToo moments," she reveals. "Do I want to expose them in an article? No. Do they appear in my work? Absolutely."

Kidman continued, "I'm open and raw, I want my experience and emotion to be exploited, used – and I'm not just talking about sexual harassment, I'm talking about loss, death, life." But it must be by the right people so as not to abuse again. "

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