After acquiring more than 100 acting credits under her belt, Nicole Kidman has revealed a new career path she’s embarking on.

The Oscar winner said she is becoming a death doula after being inspired to take on the real-life role following the death of her 84-year-old mother, Janelle Kidman, in September 2024.

“As my mother was passing, she was lonely, and there was only so much the family could provide,” Kidman, 58, said while speaking at the University of San Francisco’s War Memorial Gym on Saturday as part of the school’s Silk Speaker Series, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

“Between my sister and I, we have so many children and our careers and our work, and wanting to take care of her because my father wasn’t in the world anymore, and that’s when I went, ‘I wish there was these people in the world that were there to sit impartially and just provide solace and care,’” she continued.

The “Babygirl” leading lady shares four children with her exes Tom Cruise and Keith Urban while her younger sister Antonia Kidman, 55, has six kids.

Kidman added that becoming a death doula is “part of my expansion” and “one of the things I will be learning” in the future.

A death doula is a non-medical “companion who provides personalized and compassionate support to individuals, families, and their circles of care as they encounter and navigate death, loss, and mortality,” according to the International End-of-Life Doula Association’s website.

Jill Schwartz-Chevlin, MD, Chief Medical Officer of home-based palliative care company Vynca, told HuffPost in a statement that “death doulas create a safe space for open dialogue that helps patients and families honor patient wishes as they move through the final stages of their life’s journey.”

Death doulas also “help patients honor who they are beyond what they are,” Schwartz-Chevlin added. “When we face the end of life, we want someone close who can help us understand that we are human.”

Speaking with “CBS Sunday Morning” in December 2024, Kidman revealed what her mom’s final words to her were.

“The final words my mama said, which I didn’t know were gonna be the final words … I was going to get on a plane and go back to see her,” she recalled. “And she was like, ‘Maybe wait a minute because I think you just need to take care of yourself right now, Nicky.’”

“So, I’m doing that more. And I say that to other people in the world, and particularly women,” Kidman added. “I think we tend not to take care of ourselves.”

Kidman’s dad, Dr. Antony Kidman, died in 2014 following a fall at a restaurant in Singapore’s Tanglin Club. He was reportedly visiting his other daughter Antonia Kidman in Singapore at the time of his death.

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