Nicole Kidman has admitted that she felt worthless during her 11-year marriage to Tom Cruise.

The actress started dating the Hollywood star when she was just 22 - but she struggled to cope with his fame.

'I felt I became a star only by association,’ she tells Glamour magazine.

‘I didn't think [my early movies] were very good, which is why I would always cower in the background.

‘I thought, “I don't deserve to be here”. We would go to the Oscars and I would think, I'm here to support him. I felt it was my job to put on a beautiful dress and to be seen and not heard.'

Nicole, 41, and Tom, 46, adopted kids Isabella, 15, and Connor, 13, together. They divorced in 2002.