Tom Cruise Wants to ‘Sit Down’ With Ex-Wife Nicole Kidman ‘Face to Face’ and ‘Hash Things Out’

Tom Cruise is pushing to meet with Nicole Kidman, a source tells the National Enquirer, if only to give them both some badly needed closure and finally put an end to her comments about him in the press.

“Not so long ago, it really irritated Tom that Nicole would talk about him in interviews,” says the source. “But he’s now saying she clearly has some unresolved issues and if it’s cathartic for her to talk about them, then he can accept it.”

Kidman, 59, recently told British Vogue that she’d been warned against marrying Cruise, 64, in 1990 because it was “really going to affect” her career. “I’m like, ‘So what? I wasn’t meant to marry the man I love? Of course I’ll throw my career away. I don’t care,'” the actress recalled.

“In fairness to Nicole, it’s not like she’s going into detail and ripping him to pieces,” the source notes. “She’s talking more about her own journey and who she was at the time, and she’s careful not to put him down, which he appreciates.”

Still, “he would prefer she got over this need to reference him this way and he feels like the best way to get there is to sit down with her face to face and hash things out,” says the source.

The former couple, who share daughter Bella, 33, and son Connor, 31, went their separate ways in 2001. Five years later, Kidman married Keith Urban, with whom she split from in September.

“Tom feels it’s high time they both got some things off their chests. Clearly, Nicole needs to,” the source continues. “They’ve talked about meeting up as a family with Bella and Connor, but it’s never actually happened, and Tom is saying he’s going to make that a priority.”