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Nicole Kidman and husband Karl Urban - Source: Reuters
Nicole Kidman has denied she and her husband Keith Urban are seeking to adopt a child from Vietnam, labelling the claims made in an Australian magazine as "rubbish".
The cover of New Idea this week pointed to a story about Kidman's planned adoption of a baby boy, with the article stating the couple had contacted the Vietnamese government, via the US embassy, to discuss an adoption.
But Kidman's Australian publicist Wendy Day says the story is completely untrue.
She said she had been unable to speak to Kidman, who is in New York, until late on Monday Sydney time.
"So I had to wait until they woke up last night to ask the question to absolutely be sure because I'm in Australia and they're there," Ms Day told AAP.
"Nicole has come back and said that it's a complete fabrication, it's completely untrue. It's rubbish.
"They have never spoken to anybody in that regard - in regard of any form of adoption in Vietnam."
Ms Day said she was contacted on Friday by a freelance journalist who asked if she knew of a proposed adoption from Vietnam by the couple.
"I said I'd never heard of anything like that but if she felt that she wanted to go down that path, she should send me an email and I'd send it on to Nicole or ask for a comment, which she never did," Ms Day said.
"I never heard from her again."
The story also states Kidman's Australian lawyer Stuart Gibson is handling the adoption.
Ms Day said she has since spoken to Mr Gibson, who told her he knew nothing about the story.
"I rang Stuart and he said he'd never had a phone call from them, from anybody at New Idea, and had never heard about the story either."
The story quotes a spokesman for Mr Gibson as saying: "We do not want to discuss this situation", referring to talk of a possible adoption.
Dang Minh Dao, deputy of the Department of International Adoption at the Ministry of Justice in Hanoi, is also quoted in the story.
"Yes, Nicole Kidman wants a baby from Vietnam. We've been approached by the American embassy," he reportedly said.
New Idea's publisher Pacific Magazines backs the story.
"New Idea stands by the confirmation of an adoption approach as directly provided by the Department of International Adoption in Hanoi," a Pacific Magazines spokeswoman said in a brief statement.
But Ms Day questioned the quote's authenticity.
"There is no foundation anywhere that would lead this magazine coming to this conclusion."
She would not speculate on whether Kidman and Urban were expecting a child or had begun adoption proceedings elsewhere in the world.
