The timeline between Tom Cruise breaking up with his first ex-wife, Mimi Rogers, and hooking up with his now-second ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, is somewhat hazy. According to Andrew Morton’s unauthorized biography of Cruise, despite it taking until January 1990 for him to officially file for divorce, Cruise told Rogers he was dumping her on December 9, 1989.
By his own admission, the actor had fallen in lust the second he first set eyes on Kidman — which was at her reading to play Cruise’s “Days of Thunder” love interest. “I walked into the [audition], and [Tom] was the one that stood up and shook my hand. And I just remember . . . electricity going through me,” she told BBC (via Us Weekly). Principal photography on the film began on December 11 — two days after Cruise had informed Rogers they were over. Ten months after the divorce was finalized, Cruise and Kidman got married on Christmas Eve, 1990.
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“I was so young when I got married. I look back now, and I’m like, ‘What?'” Kidman told Red magazine. “I had two kids by the time I was 27, and I’d been married for four years. But that’s what I wanted,” she continued. Despite the questionable timeline and their self-professed hot and steamy instant sexual attraction, neither Cruise nor Kidman ever admitted to anything inappropriate happening between them before his marriage to Rogers was over.
