Nicole KidmanNicole Kidman has said she hopes her new home with Keith Urban in Nashville will make it easier for her to share custody of her children Bella and Connor with their dad, Tom Cruise.

The children, now aged 14 and 12 respectively, spend most of their time with Tom and his new wife Katie Holmes in Los Angeles rather than Sydney, where Nicole has been based recently.

Nicole told Marie Claire magazine recently: “When children are teenagers, they have a say in where they want to be. LA is a big draw, [but] I’m looking to get a place there so we can share more.”

“My daughter and son, their life is moulded by the way I live. If I wasn’t willing to take on that responsibility, I shouldn’t have adopted them. Then it can be argued that you shouldn’t have gotten divorced, and that’s true, too, but sometimes you don’t have a decision in that. People fall out of love, they do.”

She added that the children are being raised as Scientologists even though she stopped following the church’s teachings when she separated Tom in 2000.