The country star has lived in Nashville longer than anywhere else – but misses the bluntness of a hometown crowd.
I t’s a beautiful morning in Keith Urban’s backyard in Nashville and the country star is politely telling me to naff off. “I just don’t want to give you guys a headline about my wife, Ed,” Urban says, his Australian accent unsoftened despite 30 years in Tennessee.
Urban, 56, is not the first male star to be eclipsed by a female partner; think of Sean Penn and Madonna, Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry and pretty much every boyfriend of Swift. In contrast to most of these relationships, though, Urban and Kidman’s marriage is seen as very solid. “I just discovered that I’m allergic to it – that’s probably the best way for me to describe it,” he says. It’s said that, four months into their marriage in 2006, Kidman staged an intervention that led to him checking into rehab. “She really should’ve just walked,” he once said.Keith Urban says he’s “very” proud of Kidman’s second wind on the likes of Big Little Lies but won’t discuss her.
He sings about booze in an enticing, dare one say wistful, way. What does he miss about his drinking days? “I don’t miss anything,” he says. “I’m very grateful I went through it; I’m even more grateful I got through it. I have nothing against drinking, drugs, booze, chemicals, whatever the hell anybody wants to do. I serve alcohol in the house. I’ve been around it for 18 years and I have zero interest in it.
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