Nicole Kidman ‘broken-hearted’ amid split with Keith Urban

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have separated after 19 years of marriage.

A source close to the family, who did not want to be named due to the sensitive nature of the matter, told this masthead that Kidman is “broken-hearted”, and that the actor has been attempting to keep the family together for several months for the sake of her children.

US site TMZ reported on Tuesday (AEST) the couple have been living apart “since the beginning of [the northern] summer.”

The split comes amid a number of other changes in Urban’s life. In January, the musician parted ways with three of his long-serving band members, including band leader and guitarist Jerry Flowers and multi-instrumentalist Nathan Barlowe, ahead of his world tour.

Citing multiple but unnamed sources, TMZ reported that Kidman had been taking care of the pair’s two children and “holding the family together through this difficult time since Keith has been gone.”

The report said Urban has moved out of their Nashville family home and into his own residence, also in Nashville. The Grammy-winning country musician has been on his High and Alive World Tour, which touched down in Australia in August.

In April, Urban told country music news outlet Country Now that he’s “always followed the inner voice that says it’s time to make a change in any area of my life and sort of just take the leap”. At the time, the remarks were interpreted as a comment on the changes to his band’s line-up. Notably, they were made just a few months before Urban and Kidman reportedly began living apart.

Kidman and Urban married in 2006 and have two children, Sunday Rose, 17 – who made her modelling debut in Paris with Miu Miu in October last year – and Faith Margaret, 14.

The pair’s most recent public sighting together appears to have been at the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards in Texas on May 8. They were photographed arm in arm on the red carpet, dressed in matching black ensembles.

When accepting the Triple Crown Award on stage that night, Urban mentioned Kidman, saying “I love you, baby girl”. The camera panned to the actor, showing her smiling and mouthing “thank you”.

In June, to commemorate their anniversary, the Oscar-winning actor posted a photo on Instagram showing them cuddled up together. Two months later, she shared “summer memories” of her children and family on the same platform.

Kidman, who recently finished filming the highly anticipated Practical Magic 2 in London, has long spoken fondly of Urban in public. In April last year, she told People magazine how lucky she felt to have her husband, noting that he was her “love, [her] deep, deep love”.

“That gives me the ability to go and do whatever I have to do because I know where I can come back to,” she said.

This masthead has approached Kidman and Urban’s representatives for comment.

Kidman was previously married to actor Tom Cruise. The pair married in 1990 and split 11 years later, citing the difficulties inherent in divergent careers. Despite rampant public speculation about their divorce, Cruise continues to speak fondly of his ex-wife, having called her a “great actress” in a May interview with Sight and Sound.

In September last year, Kidman announced the death of her mother Janelle at the same time she was named best actress at the 2024 Venice Film Festival for her film Babygirl.

“I’m in shock, and I have to go to my family. But this award is for her,” Kidman said in a statement read out by Babygirl’s director Halina Reijn at the festival. “She shaped me, she guided me, and she made me … The collision of life and art is heartbreaking. And my heart is broken.”

Writing about her mother for this masthead in May, Kidman said she could still “hear her, feel her”, and there are moments when she cries out in her heart.

“It feels like I am still in the midst of [my grief]. It fluctuates. It comes and goes,” she wrote. “It’s an awakening in a way. It’s a shedding, and it’s a grounding for what the future will bring so that I can be the strength in the family, now that she’s not feeding me that strength.”

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