Keith Urban shares love lessons from 17-year marriage with Nicole Kidman
Keith Urban offers insights into his enduring marriage with Nicole Kidman at the 2024 CMT Music Awards, highlighting the role of music and individuality in their relationship.
Singer Keith Urban will mark 15 years of sobriety next month but said that his own addiction struggles don’t mean he has a “negative opinion” about alcohol and would hate to think his audiences don’t feel they can party at his shows.
Urban told Australia’s Rolling Stone magazine: “I don’t want people at my concert looking at the stage and thinking about sobriety. That would be the death of a gig for me.
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“The reason I don’t really talk much about sobriety is it’s a very personal thing and I don’t want anyone thinking that I have a negative opinion of drugs or alcohol. I don’t have any at all, none. I want people to come to my concert and do whatever the hell they want to do.”
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The 53-year-old singer, who has two daughters with wife Nicole Kidman, said it took him a long time to “recognise” he had a problem with alcohol because he didn’t feel his dependency on alcohol was the same as his late father Robert’s addiction, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
He said: “It took me a long time to get sober. Took me a long time to recognise my alcoholism.
“A long time because I didn’t drink like my dad, so I compared everything to him. So it just took a long time for me. But I was able to finally make the right choice in my life, that I wish my dad would have made.”
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