Secret signs Nicole Kidman has always been Hollywood's biggest diva

She's spent the past 40 years carving retired a estimation arsenic 1 of the nicest stars successful Hollywood.

But Nicole Kidman's cautiously curated representation came crashing down erstwhile a video of her excruciatingly tense speech with Salma Hayek started amassing millions of views.

The clip - which was taken astatine the Balenciaga amusement astatine Paris Fashion Week  - begins with the 2 actresses posing for photograph connected the reddish carpet.

But arsenic Salma appears to marque abstraction for Katy Perry to articulation them, the Australian prima pushed her chap actress' manus distant and subsequently storms off.

The baffling enactment has an further level of awkwardness for Salma - arsenic the prima is joined to Balenciaga owner François-Henri Pinault, who announced Nicole arsenic a marque ambassador past December.

However, this isn't the archetypal clip Nicole has been criticised for her 'flat retired diva' behaviour.

During the people of her career, the A-Lister has been slammed for demanding aggregate dressing rooms, complained astir filming scenes extracurricular and adjacent stormed retired of an awards amusement pursuing a humiliating loss.

Here FEMAIL delves into however Nicole Kidman went undetected arsenic a Hollywood diva.

Multiple Dressing Rooms 

In 2017, Nicole Kidman was riding precocious disconnected the occurrence of Big Little Lies - and was nominated for respective awards for her starring relation successful the HBO drama.

But astatine the Emmy Awards that year, the prima allegedly made 'diva' demands and was 'unfriendly' towards staff. 

An insider told Radar Online at the time: 'Nicole is ever known for being a diva and the Emmys was nary exception.

'She is not the friendliest idiosyncratic to beryllium astir and she was rather rude to unit and accumulation past night.

'Nicole demanded that she get 2 dressing rooms - 1 for her and 1 for her ample squad that she brought with her.' 

That evening, Nicole - who played Celeste - won the Emmy for Lead Actress successful a Limited oregon Anthology Series.

In her acceptance speech, Nicole paid tribute to her hubby Keith Urban and their 2 daughters Sunny and Faith.

She said: 'I besides americium a parent and a wife. I person 2 small girls, Sunny and Faith and my darling Keith who I asked to assistance maine prosecute this creator way and they had to sacrifice truthful overmuch for it, truthful this is yours.

'I privation my small girls to person this connected their support and to look astatine it and go, "every clip my momma didn’t enactment maine to bed, it’s due to the fact that of this." I got something.' 

'Flat retired diva' during Australia filming 

In 2008, Nicole famously starred other Hugh Jackman successful Baz Luhrmann's epic  play Australia.

Filming took 5 months and took spot successful assorted locations astir the state - including Queensland, Darwin and Sydney. 

Rhonda Burchmore - who attended the aforesaid acting schoolhouse arsenic Nicole - claims the prima was a 'flat retired diva' connected the set.

During her I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here quality successful 2020, Rhonda was asked if Nicole was a 'lovely person' successful existent beingness oregon not.

The world prima admitted that her schoolhouse adjacent was 'beautiful' successful the soma - but says she has heard little than flattering accounts of her nonrecreational behaviour implicit the years. 

She said: 'She was doing the movie, Australia. Do you cognize the movie, Australia?

'Nicole used to kick astir the stroke flies and the cows mooing.'

However, manager Baz Luhrmann couldn't talk much highly of his prima histrion - who was large portion they were filming - successful an interrogation with People successful November 2023. 

The Oscar-winning manager elaborate however his begetter died connected the archetypal time of shooting Moulin Rouge - portion Nicole was going done her nationalist divorcement from Tom Cruise astatine the time.

He said: 'You'll ne'er really rather person an acquisition similar that again, due to the fact that we conscionable don't marque movies similar that anymore. We don't spell retired into the mediate of a foreboding godforsaken scenery with an indigenous assemblage and with cattlemen gathering cattle stations and houses successful the mediate of nowhere. 

'I mean, the Sahara Desert is easier to enactment successful than Northern Australia. There's amended compartment reception.'

'Stormed retired of awards' aft loss 

In a erstwhile play of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Kerry Armstrong besides opened up astir her lacklustre acquisition with Nicole.

While speaking with different campers successful the South African jungle, the actress claimed the A-Lister was furious erstwhile she mislaid the Australian Film Institute Awards' Best Actress gong to Kerry successful 2001. 

That year, some Australian stars were nominated for their roles successful Lantana and Moulin Rouge.

Kerry explained: 'When we went up against each different for the AFI Awards, it was Moulin Rouge! verses Lantana, we were truthful waiting for Moulin Rouge! to triumph everything.

'Russell Crowe said, "I'm present to denote Best Actress, it is 4 truly fantastic ladies. I've got a spot of bias going connected truthful I came each the mode to denote champion actress." 

That 'bias' Russell was referring to was his long-standing relationship with Nicole.

Kerry continued: 'Nicole was up determination getting acceptable and helium said Best Actress and helium said my name.

'There was a batch of commotion connected that broadside of the country and Vince (Colosimo) came up oregon Anthony LaPaglia came up and said she'd (Nicole) near the room. I went up connected signifier and Russell Crowe was visibly unimpressed.'

Jackie Gillies chimed successful to archer Kerry she would person been superb connected Nicole's award-winning TV bid Big Little Lies, which the histrion agreed with.

Kerry joked the 2 Australian stars person been successful a feud ever since - but it does not look similar the brace are successful nonstop contention today.

Nicole present lives successful Nashville with her hubby Keith and 2 daughters, continuing to found herself arsenic 1 of Hollywood's starring ladies.

Meanwhile, Kerry's occurrence has mostly been confined to Australia since returning to her location state successful 1987. She lives with her 3 sons successful the Yarra Valley.

Press told 'not to stand' earlier Nicole left 

While promoting her movie The Human Stain successful 2003, Nicole was criticised for her 'diva' demands again.

According to Today, reporters astatine the Toronto Film Festival were told they could not inquire the prima idiosyncratic questions, usage their dictaphones oregon basal up until she had exited.

One insider said astatine the time: 'It’s a wonderment we were allowed to respire the aforesaid air.' 

However, Nicole's absorption insisted that the strict rules were enforced by the festival and did not travel from the prima herself.

They said: 'Nicole ne'er puts restrictions connected the press. She’s precise accessible.' 

Refusing to bow to 'nepo-baby' backlash 

Nicole's awkward enactment with Salma isn't the archetypal clip a Kidman has made the quality for the incorrect reasons this month.

Last week, Nicole's teenage girl was wide criticised online aft she made her modelling debut astatine Miu Miu's Paris Fashion Week show.

Sunday Rose’s runway ‘stomping’ went viral connected TikTok, with commenters critiquing her technique.

One professional wrote: 'So celebrated kids are models automatically?'

Another added: 'Strings were pulled for sure!'

Meanwhile, a 3rd said: 'She's trying truthful hard to look fierce but conscionable looks similar a petulant kid stomping their feet.' 

That said, Nicole has told her girl to not instrumentality immoderate announcement of the criticism.

A root told the MailOnline: 'Ultimately, Nicole and Keith are truthful arrogant of her and they are letting her forge her ain path.

'Her proposal to her girl was the aforesaid proposal she gives herself – bash not work societal media. She volition enactment her successful immoderate way she chooses.' 

Lied astir tallness to get auditions 

What's more, Nicole has besides antecedently revealed she wasn't acrophobic to archer a fewer lies to get her large interruption successful acting successful the 1980s.

Speaking to the Radio Times in January,  Nicole recalled being told arsenic a young actress: 'You won't person a career. You're excessively tall.'

As such, the mother-of-two said she began lying astir her tallness and shaved a mates of inches disconnected her existent stature. 

However, this attack didn't ever enactment and Nicole elaborate however producers were measuring kid stars for the relation of Annie astatine the door.

At 5ft 4in, she was 2 inches excessively gangly - but inactive 'talked her way' into the audition country and 'got to sing 4 lines of the chorus'.

Continuing to enactment Balenciaga - contempt backlash from fans 

Arguably, Kidman's astir 'diva-ish' determination successful caller months has her refusal to chopped ties with Balenciaga aft the marque ran a bondage-themed manner run featuring kid models. 

The saga prompted much revelations to look astir Balenciaga's erstwhile campaigns, with fans discovering the Spring/Summer 2023 run featured pages from a US Supreme Court determination connected kid pornography laws.

While galore celebrities publically chopped ties with Balenciaga successful the aftermath, Nicole has ignored the contention and made nary notation of it connected her societal media oregon successful interviews.

The ungraded erupted erstwhile Balenciaga released its 2022 Holiday advertisement run that featured children posing with its Plush Toy Bag. The bags look similar teddy bears and are dressed successful BDSM gear.

In the photograph shoot, the kids besides appeared surrounded by bare vino and champagne glasses.

The distinctly big themes instantly troubled galore who asked wherefore children had ever been used.

Balenciaga ignored the ungraded astatine archetypal and seemingly allowed the lensman who was involved, Gabriele Galimberti, to instrumentality the heat.

He released a connection saying helium had nary power implicit the contented of the sprout and eventually, Balenciaga released its ain connection agreeing with him and taking work for the campaign. It has present been pulled from the internet.

After the BDSM bears fiasco, eagle-eyed critics started examining the remainder of Balenciaga's campaigns closely.

They soon discovered that successful the inheritance of an representation from the Spring '23 run was a printout of a Supreme Court ruling connected whether oregon not net kid porn tin beryllium legally considered escaped speech.

On the backmost of the bears scandal, galore critics said it pointed to a troubling signifier wrong Balenciaga.

Balenciaga was speedy to blasted North Six, a accumulation institution that helped put the shoot, for the inclusion of those documents.

They claimed that they entrusted each of the props from the photoshoot to North Six, and that their squad was assured everything that was included was fake.