Nicole Kidman’s 2001 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman is going viral again after her split from Keith Urban.
The actress was going through her divorce from first husband Tom Cruise in summer 2001 when she appeared on The Late Show on Aug. 2 that year to promote her movie The Others.
Letterman started the interview by asking Kidman, “I heard you’re getting divorced, how’s that going?”
After Letterman suggested that Kidman wouldn’t have done the talk show if “things were not alright,” she said, “I’d probably still be here.”
When Letterman asked if people had been asking her about her divorce, Kidman admitted, “Um, yeah I get a lot of questions.”
“Well, I can wear heels now,” she said with a smirk, which sparked applause from the audience and laughter from Letterman.
“Let’s move on,” she continued. “Now we move on.”
Kidman and Letterman traded quips throughout the rest of the interview. Kidman added, “Things are fine. It’s fine,” before asking Letterman, “How was your divorce?”
Letterman was married to his college sweetheart Michelle Cook in the 1970s. He’s been married to Regina Lasko since 2009.
Kidman and Cruise announced their separation in February 2001 after 10 years of marriage, months before her Late Show appearance.
Recent Split from Keith Urban
Renewed interest in Kidman’s 2001 comments comes three days after news broke that the Academy Award-winning actress and Urban, 57, separated after 19 years of marriage.
PEOPLE confirmed the split on Sept. 29.
“Nicole’s sister Antonia has been a rock and the entire Kidman family has come together to support one another,” a source told PEOPLE.
“She didn’t want this. She has been fighting to save the marriage.”
The actress filed for divorce on Sept. 30 in Nashville, where the couple has lived since 2007. Court documents obtained by PEOPLE show Kidman listed their date of separation as the filing date and cited irreconcilable differences.
Kidman and Urban wed in June 2006 and share two daughters: Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.
Kidman is also mom to daughter Bella, 32, and son Connor, 30, from her first marriage to Cruise.
A source told PEOPLE on Sept. 29 that Kidman and Urban’s “lives were moving in different directions” before they officially went their separate ways.
“Once he quietly set up his own place, it felt like the writing was on the wall,” the source said.
“It really hasn’t been a secret in their circles that Keith and Nicole have been living separately for a while now,” the insider added. “People close to Keith felt like the split was kind of inevitable.”
