Nicole Kidman’s post went viral after she said being married to Tom Cruise kept her from being sexually harassed in the 1990s. She further explained it in an interview on the Today show. 

“I’m saying because I was married at 23 years old, I wasn’t going to parties, or I wasn’t going out a lot,” she told Today co-anchors Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie. “I was pretty much at home. I had my first child at 25 and I was married. I was in a family so, my sense of being in the world was I was working or I was at home.”

Earlier this month, Nicole opened up further in an interview with New York magazine, saying, “I got married very young, but it definitely wasn’t power for me — it was protection,” adding, “I married for love, but being married to an extremely powerful man kept me from being sexually harassed. I would work, but I was still very much cocooned. So when I came out of it at 32, 33, it’s almost like I had to grow up.”

In the interview with Today, she continued, “I think when you’re married to a very powerful man, I mean, I’m not in a male’s mind but …. when I said protection, I think there’s almost like a barrier a lot of women don’t have — that a lot of people in the world don’t have.”