Following Nicole Kidman’s and Keith Urban’s reported separation after 19 years together, Keith Urban’s past struggles with addiction and early marriage issues have come under spotlight once more.
A video of Keith Urban reflecting on his struggles with addiction and the early days of his marriage to Nicole Kidman has resurfaced following news of the couple’s separation.
On Monday, it was reported that the Oscar-winning actress, 58, and the country singer, 57, have ended their 19-year marriage. The couple, who share daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14, have reportedly spent increasing time apart due to busy filming and touring schedules.
Urban and Kidman both publicly acknowledged how their relationship had almost been ruined by their addictions during the resurfaced video that was shot during the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute in June 2024.
He said, “We married in 2006, and just four months into our marriage, the addictions that I had no choice but to deal with blew our marriage to pieces.” I’m in rehab for three months after we got married, and I have no idea what would happen.
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Urban attributed Kidman’s assistance in surviving that challenging time to Urban. Every negative voice was pushed in by Nic. She chose love, I’m sure of her own, and she did it. 18 years later, we are right here tonight. No one I’ve ever met has the ability to love like that.
Kidman’s emotional confession to her husband’s emotional confession caught her eye as she watched him wring a tear away during the speech.
The singer has openly acknowledged his long-term struggle with alcohol and drugs. He claimed to have had Nic intervened on me in 2016 and that he was “very, very blessed.” My new marriage sank because of my careless choices.
He later referred to the transformative impact of the Oprah Winfrey-led intervention. He said at the time, “The love in that room was just right.” To witness that kind of love in action That was unlike anything I’d ever gone through.
Urban acknowledged in 2021 that he had compared everything to his father because of his drinking. However, I finally made the wise choice that my father would have made in life.
Even after achieving sobriety, Urban has occasionally sparked tension with comments about his past. A recent remark comparing Ariana Grande’s single We Can’t Be Friends to “audible heroin” reportedly upset Kidman, with a source telling Woman’s Day that it “brought back a very dark time for them when they almost split.”
Friends say the couple has grown increasingly apart due to professional commitments in recent months and is the reason behind their split. “Keith never sees Nicole, either she is filming or he is on tour. There was a lot of love between the two and they might not divorce, but there is a world that they both live where neither of them are in it,” a source told TMZ.
The insider also claimed that since Urban moved out of their home, Kidman had been “holding the family together through this difficult time” and had been taking care of their two children. According to reports, the Oscar winner has been attempting to save their union.
Nicole met the country singer at the G’Day USA Gala the year before, and the former couple got married in 2006. In 2017, she later admitted to telling Ellen DeGeneres, “I had such a crush on him, and he wasn’t interested in me.”
” It’s true! For four months, he called me. Keith gushed about it in a 2016 interview with CBS News. It was a life-beginning, not a life-changing experience meeting her and getting married.
After becoming engaged in May 2006, they wed in the St. Patrick’s Estate in Sydney, Australia later that year. Shortly after marrying, Keith was checked into the Betty Ford Center to seek help for alcohol addiction.
The Mirror has reached out to Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s representatives for comment.
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