Keith Urban opens up about how he almost ‘blew’ his marriage to Nicole Kidman because of addictions
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Keith Urban has admitted to almost ruined his marriage to Nicole Kidman in the early days of their life as a couple.
The country singer is blissfully married to Kidman for almost two decades after tying the knot in 2006. However, it was not always the same as he once shared that he almost ruined his marriage in the early days.
While praising his wife during the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute in April, Urban opened up about his marriage with the ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ actress.
Though the gala honoring Kidman took place in April, it was recently televised and it gave a glimpse into the couple’s story.
Keith Urban opens up about his Nicole Kidman marriage
During the AFI gala, the ‘Somebody Like You’ singer paid an emotional tribute to Kidman while admitting that he almost blew his marriage in the early days.
He shared that as he was struggling with sobriety issues, it was the ‘Moulin Rouge’ star’s dedication that finally made him sober, per Hello!
Urban admitted, "We got married in 2006, and barely four months into our marriage, the addictions that I had done really nothing about blew our marriage to smithereens.”
He continued, "Four months into a marriage, and I'm in rehab for three months with no idea what was going to happen to us."
"Nic pushed through every negative voice – I'm sure even some of her own – and she chose love. And here we are tonight 18 years later. Her capacity to love is like no one I've ever met,” said the enamored husband.
The 57-year-old actress was understandably overcome with emotion at such a passionate speech and was seen wiping a tear from her eye.
Keith Urban thanks Nicole Kidman for sobering him up
Before his marriage to Kidman, Urban had been in rehab twice. After he relapsed following their marriage, the actress decided to step in to save him from the brink of destruction.
Later in 2018, Urban remembered the role his wife played in saving him and said during a South by Southwest panel discussion in Austin, Texas, "I'm just alcoholically wired," per People.
Crediting his wife for making him sober, he shared, "I was living a very small life. My life was getting smaller and smaller and that is how I kept it manageable. I was lucky I had a very loving wife. [Getting sober] has freed me up creatively."
He also said in another interview with the Associated Press, "I would write these songs about love and relationships," noting, "I realized I was writing from all these places of the kind of person I wished I could be. ... The only thing that's changed in my life is I've more so become the person I was trying to be."
