Nicole Kidman’s Six-Word Clapback About Her Divorce from Tom Cruise Goes Viral amid Her Keith Urban Split

Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise divorced in 2001 after 10 years of marriage

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Nicole Kidman’s famous August 2001 appearance on The Late Show is going viral in the wake of her split from husband Keith Urban
Kidman famously told host David Letterman, “Well, I can wear heels now,” with a smirk as he asked about her 2001 divorce from Tom Cruise that year
PEOPLE confirmed the news that Kidman and Urban had split after 19 years of marriage on Sept. 29; she filed for divorce on Sept. 30

Nicole Kidman’s 2001 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman is going viral again in the wake of her split from Keith Urban.

Kidman, who was going through her divorce from first husband Tom Cruise in the summer of 2001, appeared on The Late Show on Aug. 2 of that year to promote her movie The Others.

Letterman started the interview by cheerfully asking Kidman, “I heard you’re getting divorced, how’s that going?” After Letterman suggested that Kidman would not 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.” Moments later, the actress said, “Well, I can wear heels now,” 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 back and forth 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 has been married to Regina Lasko since 2009.)

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman attend the 2018 Time 100 Gala on April 24, 2018 in New York City.Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

Kidman and Cruise jointly announced their separation in February 2001 after 10 years of marriage, months before Kidman’s Late Show appearance that year.

Renewed interest in Kidman’s 2001 comments on The Late Show come three days after news broke that the Academy Award-winning actress and her husband Urban, 57, had separated after 19 years of marriage. As a source told PEOPLE, “Nicole’s sister [Antonia] has been a rock and the entire Kidman family has come together to support one another.”

“She didn’t want this,” the source shared of Kidman. “She has been fighting to save the marriage.”

Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in 1991.Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty

The actress filed for divorce on Sept. 30 in Nashville, where the couple has lived since 2007, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE. Kidman listed their date of separation as the date of filing and cited irreconcilable differences as reason for the split. Kidman and Urban wed in June 2006 and share two children: 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.)

On Sept. 29, a source told PEOPLE that Kidman and Urban’s “lives were moving in different directions” before they officially went their separate ways, “and once he quietly set up his own place, it felt like the writing was on the wall.”

“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.”