{"id":52548,"date":"2025-09-30T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52548\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:24:07","slug":"keith-urban-called-nicole-kidman-out-in-front-of-friends-before-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52548\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban \u2018called Nicole Kidman out in front of friends\u2019 before split"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s also been reported that Urban was the one who initiated the split<\/a> after feeling \u201cunhappiness\u201d, prompting him to \u201ccall her out\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intimacy isn\u2019t there, they are just going through the motions [of being married]. If this separation gets them back together, that would be amazing, but Keith had to call her out that he isn\u2019t happy,\u201d the source told the Mail, with another insider telling the Times it was \u201callegedly in the presence of friends\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was blindsided, but we shall see how things go during the holiday season and his upcoming birthday [next month]. They have some work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The estranged couple are parents to Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 15, who are understood to be living with their mother at the family home in Nashville<\/a>, while Urban has found alternative accommodation nearby.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir lives were moving in different directions, and once he quietly set up his own place, it felt like the writing was on the wall,\u201d a source told People of the marital woes.<\/p>\n

A source close to the pair also told the publication that their marital woes \u201creally hasn\u2019t been a secret\u201d to their inner circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople close to Keith felt like the split was kind of inevitable,\u201d an insider said, adding that Kidman and Urban have \u201cbeen living separately for a while now\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s believed that Kidman has turned to her close family, with her sister becoming her \u201crock\u201d in recent months as she tries to navigate through the split.<\/p>\n

\u201cNicole\u2019s sister has been a rock, and the entire Kidman family has come together to support one another,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

A huge factor in fans\u2019 devastation and shock at the news is the fact that Urban and Kidman had previously appeared to be so openly loved-up over the years.<\/p>\n

\"AfterAfter nearly two decades together, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have reportedly gone their separate ways. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Back in 2014, Urban thanked his wife for sticking with him when he entered rehab for substance abuse issues just four months after their wedding, describing their marriage as the \u201cmiracle\u201d that saved him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very, very blessed to have Nic call an intervention on me. I had a tight group of friends around me for the intervention,\u201d he told Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI use the expression \u2018I was born into her,\u2019 and that\u2019s how I feel. And for the first time in my life, I could shake off the shackles of addiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, Urban told CBS News that \u201cmeeting her and getting married wasn\u2019t life-changing, it was life-beginning. It was literally like, \u2018Okay, now life starts.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer also gave an emotional speech in Kidman\u2019s honour when she was given an AFI Life Achievement Award at an LA ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe also has a bit of a mantra, and that is: Choose love,\u201d he told the audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I\u2019ve watched her do this many times, navigating emotionally complex things that she\u2019s gone through with so many people. She always chooses that phrase; she lives by it. Choose love. She has the capacity to love like no one I\u2019ve ever met.\u201d<\/p>\n

TMZ was first to break the sad news of their split on Tuesday morning, Australian time, citing multiple sources confirming that Kidman and Urban had been living apart for months.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes relationships just run their course,\u201d a source further told Page Six, adding that Kidman \u201cdid not want the separation and was trying to save things\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s also been reported that Urban was the one who initiated the split after feeling \u201cunhappiness\u201d, prompting him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,9218,45035,1559,45034,181,15356,156,1445,1668,305,78,44180,44179,636,111,139,2722,69,1118,3111,17182,8692,8733,45036,6923],"class_list":["post-52548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-about","tag-before","tag-breakdown","tag-called","tag-contributed","tag-details","tag-emerged","tag-entertainment","tag-friends","tag-front","tag-have","tag-in","tag-keith","tag-kidman","tag-marriage","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nicole","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-out","tag-reportedly","tag-split","tag-urban","tag-urbans","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}