Ahead of legally ending their marriage, the Oscar winner, 58, and her ex had already worked through a permanent parenting plan, which, per documents obtained by E! News, names Nicole and Keith as their children’s joint custodians, though the Moulin Rouge! actress will be their primary residential parent. (The girls will live with her for 306 days out of the year and Keith 59 days.)
However, E! News learned that in the time leading up to their divorce, Nicole—who is mom to Bella Cruise, 32, and Connor Cruise, 30, with ex Tom Cruise—had been trying to save the marriage.
During their decades together she had previously detailed the effort she and Keith put into their marriage and how they made it work.
“We’re always working through stuff, but it’s very much love based, so there’s an enormous amount of give and take,” she explained to Harper’s Bazaar in 2021. “I want him to have the best life he can have, and he responds the same way.”
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