Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise pictured together in 1991

Tom Cruise spoke publicly about his ex-wife Nicole Kidman to Vanity Fair in 2002, just a year after the former couple’s divorce – but hasn’t said much since.

At the time, the magazine asked Tom why he and Nicole had parted ways, and the Mission: Impossible star responded vaguely, insisting twice to the outlet that Nicole “knows why..

Decades later, we now have at least one idea about why they broke up as well — because the man does not know how to give a compliment.

That is, based on Tom’s most recent remark about his A-list ex.

In the latest issue of the magazine Sight And Sound (via Us Weekly), Tom made what appears to be his first public remark about Nicole in more than 20 years. He even said something nice about her — just in the most self-serving way possible.

In the article, the Top Gun star spoke about Stanley Kubrick’s 1999........

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