Asked about their close relationship, the Paddington star said: ”You’ve caught me at a time when I’m still recovering and in grief. There are times you go, ‘Gosh, I wish I could just go and hide in a hole and never come out.’ And then you go, ‘That was yesterday.”’
Nicole credits her young daughters for helping her to get over his death and focus on the present. She told the August issue of U.S. Vogue magazine: ”Just hearing their laugh . . . it’s life in its most powerful form.”
Nicole cherishes her own childhood memories of her father and vividly remembers him bringing mice to her school to talk about science. She said: ”And all the kids are looking at me like I am crazy.”
The actress previously admitted that the ”massive tragedy” had a big effect on her. She said: ”Personally [it’s been] really really really hard. My family underwent a massive tragedy. So not the best year. But I try not to be ungrateful – I’m grateful to be alive.”