Keith Urban recalled the moment his wife Nicole Kidman staged an intervention for his addiction issues, in an edited extract from book Keith Urban by Jeff Apter, published in The Daily Telegraph on Friday.
The country music superstar, 54, checked himself into the Betty Ford Center at Rancho Mirage, California, in October 2006, following a boozy bender while on tour.
Keith told Rolling Stone magazine back in 2016 that he would have understood if Nicole, 54, chose to leave him, with the couple having only married that same year.
‘I was very, very blessed’: Keith Urban, 54, recalled the moment his wife Nicole Kidman, 54, staged an invention after a bender prior to his rehab stint in 2006, in an edited book extract by Jeff Apter published by The Daily Telegraph on Friday. Pictured together in February
‘I was very, very blessed to have Nic call an intervention on me,’ Keith told the publication, adding that he’d ’caused the implosion of my fresh marriage’.
The Voice Australia coach also reflected on the intervention with Oprah Winfrey, admitting to the famed talk show host that he ‘went off the rails’ and ‘needed help and a new direction’ in his life.
Nicole, who was in Rome for work at the time of his boozy bender, flew back to the States and rounded up his friends to stage an intervention.
Rehab: The country music superstar checked himself into the Betty Ford Center at Rancho Mirage, California, in October 2006. Keith told Rolling Stone magazine back in 2016 that he would have understood if Nicole chose to leave him, with the couple having married that year
‘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.’
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Keith has been open about his past struggle with alcohol addiction, and confessed he wished he had become sober earlier on in his life during an appearance at the South By Southwest conference and festival in Texas back in 2018.
‘I wish I’d gotten sober many years earlier than I did, but it is what it is,’ he said.
Support system: ‘I was very, very blessed to have Nic call an intervention on me,’ Keith told Rolling Stone, adding that he’d ’caused the implosion of my fresh marriage’. Pictured in January 2016
‘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.’
Keith also admitted that he ‘sucked at relationships’ prior to meeting Nicole and getting married, and that his song lyrics about love were far from his reality.
‘I would write these songs about love and relationships; I remember writing Somebody Like You and playing it for my girlfriend at the time and she just looked at me and said, ‘You’re a f****** hypocrite,’ and I couldn’t argue that.’
Keith and Nicole met in 2005 and wed a year later. They share daughters Sunday Rose, 13, and Faith Margaret, 11.
For alcohol addiction support in Australia, visit Alcoholics Anonymous or the Alcohol and Drug Information Service.
New direction: Keith also reflected on the intervention with Oprah Winfrey, admitting to the famed talk show host that he ‘went off the rails’ and ‘needed help and a new direction’ in his life. ‘The love in that room in that moment was just right,’ he said. Pictured in January 2019
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