Ultimately, Kidman was the one who filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences”, but according to the insider, she would still take him back if the option was available.
The former couple, who wed in 2006, share two daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.
Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, and their daughters Faith and Sunday Rose. Photo / Getty Images
It comes after another insider close to Kidman told People magazine last week that she’s staying “positive” and “isn’t someone who dwells on regrets”.
Earlier this month, a source had told Page Six that she is “sad, but moving on” from the divorce.
Kidman herself had hinted at her divorce in an interview with Vogue published on October 9, which was given shortly before the divorce became public.
An insider claims Kidman would ‘get back’ with Urban ‘in a heartbeat’. Photo / Getty Images
In the cover story for the magazine’s November issue, journalist Wendell Steavenson explains that the interview took place “a few weeks” before news broke of Kidman and Urban’s split – but claimed that he had already “guessed” they might’ve gone their separate ways, “but I didn’t want to pry”.
The reason? He’d asked Kidman how she felt in this decade of her life, and found the actor “wry, rueful, unsure of herself” in her response. She said: “How many times do you have to be taught that you think you know where your life is going and then it isn’t going in that direction?”
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