What a Gentleman! Keith Urban spotted at Sydney Airport picking up his wife Nicole Kidman from her early morning arrival from the US
Keith Urban and wife Nicole Kidman 's marriage looks to many to be the picture of a perfect Hollywood union - but just four months after they tied the knot, the couple's relationship was rocked by the singer's brutal battle with drug and alcohol abuse, which saw the actress forced to stage an intervention to help him get sober.
Despite his history with substance abuse, Urban recently compared listening to Ariana Grande's catchy new single, We Can't Be Friends, to 'audible heroin.' 'Nicole would never ask him to take down a post but she was disappointed,' an insider told Woman's Day magazine. Keith once recalled the moment his wife staged an intervention for his addiction issues, in an extract from the book Keith Urban by Jeff Apter.
While the couple have enjoyed nearly 18 years of wedded bliss, his past battle with drugs and alcohol almost drove them apart as he previously admitted to being a 'real binge drinker' 'The love in that room in that moment was just right,' Keith told Oprah. 'To see love in action in that way... I'd never experienced anything like that before.'
Kidman told Vanity Fair in 2007, during that period, that they 'were in a very, very, very bad, painful place' and 'managed to step through it .' 'I didn't drink like my dad, so I compared everything to him,' he recalled in a 2021 interview with Rolling Stone. 'But I was able to finally make the right choice in my life, that I wish my dad would have made' 'I knew I wasn't at my full potential, and that's what was starting to get to me. I was enslaved... I was living a very, very small life.'
Urban's former songwriting partner, Vernon Rust, alleged in his book, Fake News, that they once snorted $320,000 of cocaine together during an 'epic binge' in the the late 1990s 'We lived in the studio. We did a lot of coke, and it stayed up for days,' Rust wrote. 'Every track off that album was coke-fuelled.'
Urban publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction, and entered rehab on several occasions, last checking himself into the Betty Ford Center in October 2006 just months after marrying Kidman The lyrics, dedicated to Kidman, read: 'And I thank you for my heart/ I thank you for my life/ And I thank God for grace and mercy/ And that you became my wife.'
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