Like millions of other parents all over the world, Hollywood star Nicole Kidman has been raising her children in lockdown amidst COVID-19 this year. Now, the actress is speaking out to reveal what the hardest part about this has been for her.

Kidman and her husband, country music star Keith Urban, are parents to daughters: Sunday Rose and Faith. She told Glamour that both girls have had difficulties adjusting to live in lockdown.

“Our kids — because we travel, and we won’t be apart — are used to having to learn online,” she said. “But the social distance has been very difficult for them. They are working through the emotions. For a 12-year-old, it’s about not being able to access friends easily. That’s a whole thing which every parent will be going through.”

“And, then there’s a nine-year-old, who’s socially forming,” Kidman added. “One of the hardest things is just watching them pine and yearn for their friends. I pine and yearn for my friends too.”

As for Urban, Kidman said that her marriage to him is stronger than ever.

“I have a very good relationship. It is a very soothing, comforting place for me to go, and he’s a very strong, warm, kind man,” she explained. “I’m very fortunate to have that in my life, because it’s a really strong place to be able to go and curl up. And, this is a lonely world, right? That’s an extraordinary thing to have found, particularly later in my life. But it saved me, as well, which is a beautiful thing to have.”

Kidman went on to say that her relationship saved her because she’d had bouts of loneliness in the past.

“They say loneliness is the great killer,” she said. “It causes so much pain and I’ve been lonely, and it is very, very, very hard. You see it in older people. You see it in young people. You see it now in this world. We can’t even hug anymore. Loneliness is an epidemic. So, I am very fortunate to come home to him. My heart goes out to the people who don’t have a person to go to now.”