Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban attend the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute celebrating Nicole Kidman at Dolby Theatre on April 27, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)Getty Images
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are separating after 19 years of marriage.
According to TMZ, People, and E! News, the decision was not mutual, with Urban being the one who wanted to separate. A source told TMZ they have been living apart “since the beginning of summer.”
However, a little over a year ago, Urban had nothing but kind words for Kidman, with whom he shares daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.
In June 2024, Kidman won the Life Achievement Award at the 49th American Film Institute (AFI) Awards. During the show, Urban honored Kidman with a heartwarming tribute where he praised her strength for sticking with him after he revealed he “blew [their] marriage to smithereens.”
“We got married in June 2006 and barely four months into our marriage, my addictions … that I’d done really nothing about, blew our marriage to smithereens,” Urban said, revealing he went to get help.
“Four months into a marriage, I’m in rehab for three months,” he said. “I had no idea what was going to happen to us … and if you want to see what love in action really looks like, give that a whirl,” he continued. “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.”
He continued to gush over Kidman, noting that she is a romantic to her core. “She’s raw, but resilient; she’s serious and a complete goofball. She also has a bit of a mantra, ‘Choose love.’” Urban added: “She has the capacity to love like no one I’ve ever met.”
Looking ahead to the future, Urban noted in his speech that, “Next year will be 20 years that I’ve been madly in love with you.”
In June, they celebrated their 19-year wedding anniversary and two decades together as a couple. Given TMZ’s report that the pair had been living separately since the beginning of the summer, however, it’s unclear if they were still under the same roof on their anniversary.
To mark the occasion, Kidman shared a sweet post to Instagram on June 25. “Happy Anniversary Baby,” she wrote with a heart emoji, alongside a black and white photo of her lovingly leaning on Urban’s shoulder. The “Somebody Like You” singer did not post on social media for their anniversary, though he had celebrated the milestone the year before.
During Urban’s tribute to Kidman at the AFI Awards, he also recounted their first meeting, which coincidentally was at a different award show in January 2005. Urban claimed that he “felt like he was meeting a real-life princess,” and explained how nervous he was to call her after they met. When he finally did, Urban noted they “talked and talked like they’d known each other their whole lives.”
“It turns out that this mystic creature was really just a wide-eyed vivacious giddy girl from the Sydney suburbs and despite being born in Honolulu, she was utterly Aussie through and through,” he said, nodding to their shared culture.
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