Nicole Kidman misses Venice Film Festival awards ceremony due to mother’s death: ‘My heart is broken’

> “Today I arrived in Venice to find out shortly after that my beautiful, brave mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, has just passed,” Reijn read on Kidman’s behalf. “I’m in shock and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her. She shaped me, she guided me, and she made me.”

> Kidman expressed that she felt honored to invoke her mother to the Venice crowd. “I am beyond grateful that I get to say her name to all of you through Halina,” she said. “The collision of life and art is heartbreaking, and my heart is broken.”