Nicole Kidman Explains Why She Forgot To Clap Like A Human At The Oscars

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March 9, 2017

Nicole Kidman cannot clap.

That was the key takeaway from this year’s Academy Awards (as well as the age-old wisdom of ‘never tweet, especially if you’re backstage and have a very important job to do’). Nicole Kidman? Cannot clap.

Other People: make a loud noise by moving their left and right hands together in a reciprocating motion.

Nicole Kidman: looks like a seal.

Seriously, what the fuck pic.twitter.com/6Ti6lQx7aq

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It was the third biggest mystery to come out of the Oscars, after the infamous ‘La La Land‘ / ‘Moonlight‘ flub and how eight-year-old Sunny Pawar is legally allowed to be that cute.

The actress has finally explained just WTF she was doing with her hands, and low-and-behold she wasn’t being sucked into Jumanji. It turns out she was just sporting giant fuck-off Harry Winston diamonds on her digits, and was petrified of damaging them.

“It was really awkward,” she told Kyle and Jackie O this morning. “I was like, ‘I wanna clap, I don’t wanna not be clapping’ – that’d be worse, right? Like ‘why isn’t Nicole clapping?’
“So therefore I’m clapping but it was really difficult because I had a huge ring on that was not mine – but it was absolutely gorgeous – and I was terrified of damaging it.”

Suuuuuuure. The truth is out there, Nic.