00:00Okay, so the story everyone's talking about this week, I mean, it's got to be Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman.
00:0419 years of marriage, seemingly solid, and now divorce rumors everywhere.
00:11It is a huge story. Absolutely massive.
00:13Mostly because they always look so, you know, together, the public.
00:17Totally blindsided.
00:18Right.
00:19But what our sources are saying, especially the reporters, like down in Nashville, this wasn't some sudden thing.
00:25Oh.
00:25For people in the business, this was kind of an open secret.
00:29It's been unfolding for maybe two months before it really hit the news cycle.
00:33That totally changes how you look at it, doesn't it?
00:35So it's not this spontaneous combustion.
00:37It's more like a managed demolition made.
00:40Something like that.
00:41Managed, but definitely getting messy now.
00:44Yeah.
00:44So our job today, let's try and get past just the shock value.
00:49I need to unpack the history here because it's wild.
00:52And those financial agreements.
00:55Wow.
00:55Oh, yeah.
00:56And then the recent stuff, the public behavior that kind of signaled this was coming.
01:00Okay, let's get into it.
01:01Let's do it.
01:01And the documents, the agreements, they tell a real story.
01:05Okay.
01:05We absolutely have to start with the detail that Hello Magazine Canada first reported, which is just staggering.
01:12This cocaine clause in the prenup.
01:14Yeah.
01:14I mean, that's not standard legal language, right?
01:16Not at all.
01:17It says so much about how things started.
01:20The reports say Nicole agreed to pay Keith like $600,000 for every single year he stayed off cocaine.
01:27$600,000 a year.
01:28Yeah.
01:29So if that's accurate, over 19 years, he could have potentially earned, what, $11.4 million just for staying clean, according to their agreement.
01:38That is fascinating.
01:39Is that like an incentive or is it more about control?
01:43Because $600,000 a year, that's serious money to encourage sobriety, but it also feels kind of strategic financially, doesn't it?
01:50Exactly.
01:51It turns this really serious personal issue, addiction, into a line item in a contract with a big bonus.
01:57Huh.
01:57It suggests Nicole knew the risks, right?
01:59And she decided to manage that risk using the prenup.
02:02The money helps ensure he complies, maybe, but it also keeps that specific financial arrangement separate if they split.
02:07Okay, I see.
02:08Remember, they're worth, like, close to half a billion combined.
02:12So $11 million is a lot, but maybe not enough to totally complicate dividing everything else up.
02:17That makes the early days make more sense, too.
02:19They get married and boom, just months later, Keith's back in rehab, Betty Ford Clinic, alcohol, crack cocaine.
02:27Yeah.
02:27So Nicole knew about these demons, as they called them, right from the very beginning.
02:33She absolutely did.
02:34And look, this ties into Nicole Kidman's whole brand, right?
02:38Image control.
02:39She's a master.
02:40Oh, absolutely.
02:41I mean, think about the Tom Cruise divorce.
02:43Do we really, truly know what happened there?
02:45Still feels murky.
02:46Totally.
02:47And those old rumors, which they always denied, about Ewan McGregor during Moulin Rouge.
02:51Right.
02:52The whispers about an affair, maybe even a pregnancy, leading to the split with Tom.
02:56We don't need to rehash all that.
02:57But the point is, she's incredibly skilled at managing the narrative, controlling perception.
03:02Especially during a crisis.
03:04Which is why Keith's behavior now is so striking.
03:06For 19 years, she kept up this appearance of stability, even with that huge rehab setback right at the start.
03:13And now Keith seems to be, like, actively blowing it up in public.
03:18It suggests things have gone way past the point where she can control it privately.
03:22Okay, so let's pivot to what apparently triggered this immediate split.
03:27The rumor is Keith's seeing someone new.
03:30An open secret, you said.
03:32That's the word in Nashville, yeah.
03:33And we need to be clear, this isn't about him relapsing, right?
03:36Maybe not.
03:36Which Nicole has handled for, like, almost two decades.
03:39That's the crucial difference, based on everything I'm hearing.
03:42Yeah.
03:42A slip-up, maybe even a casual fling, that might have been manageable.
03:46Maybe a contract clause, who knows.
03:48Right.
03:49But this time, the word is.
03:50Right.
03:50It's serious.
03:52Keith allegedly has fell in love.
03:54Fell in love.
03:55Wow.
03:56That brings in this whole emotional element that just doesn't fit with Nicole's, you know, carefully built public image in life.
04:03It's not controllable.
04:04And if it was an open secret in Nashville, there must have been signs, right?
04:08Public clues that people were picking up on.
04:10Oh, definitely.
04:11There were a few things.
04:12The obvious one.
04:12They just weren't seen together as much recently.
04:14That was always part of their brand, being seen together.
04:16Yeah, the United Front.
04:17Then Keith bought a house by himself.
04:22That's never a good sign in a marriage, you know.
04:24Definitely not.
04:25But the biggest signal, maybe the most strategic one, actually came from Nicole's side.
04:30It's a legal thing.
04:31International residency.
04:32Oh, you're talking about the Portugal citizenship application.
04:36Exactly.
04:37She applied.
04:38Keith's name.
04:39Nowhere on the application.
04:40Oh.
04:41And look, when you're dealing with international law, taxes, residency, applying for something like that without your spouse, that's not just an oversight.
04:52No way.
04:52It's like setting up a massive legal flare.
04:55It signals you're separating your future legally and financially, maybe using Portugal's tax rules or residency laws.
05:02So she was planning this way before the news broke.
05:04It looks like it.
05:05Really suggests advanced planning, protecting assets, setting up jurisdiction.
05:09It confirms this was tactical on her part.
05:12Okay, that adds a whole layer.
05:13This isn't just her reacting angrily to him falling for someone else.
05:16This is a calculated move to separate her future from his, legally, financially.
05:21Highly strategic.
05:23Nicole's playing chess here, securing her position internationally, which honestly makes Keith's next move seem even more pointed.
05:31Right.
05:32More spiteful, maybe.
05:33Right.
05:33Which brings us to the really public stuff, the alleged humiliation tactics.
05:38And this involves the rumored other person, Maggie Bao.
05:43Is that right?
05:43B-A-G-A.
05:44That's the name floating around, yeah.
05:45Maggie Bao.
05:46And reports say she hasn't exactly been hiding it on social media.
05:49Kind of the opposite.
05:51Advertising it was the phrase I saw.
05:52Yeah.
05:53And the humiliation seems deliberate.
05:55Yeah.
05:55Look, Keith cares about his image a lot.
05:58He does.
05:58So for him to do something so obviously controversial, changing song lyrics on stage, that feels like a choice.
06:06A choice to cause pain, maybe.
06:08And this was like right after the divorce filing news broke.
06:11It's his first show.
06:12The very first one.
06:13Talk about timing.
06:14And the song, wasn't it one he wrote for Nicole about protecting her?
06:17That's the one.
06:18When they're trying to get to you, baby, I'll be the fighter.
06:21Super famous line.
06:22He changed it.
06:23Yeah.
06:23On stage.
06:24Live audience.
06:24Cameras rolling.
06:25Changed it to, when they try to get to you, Maggie, I'll be your guitar player.
06:28No, he didn't.
06:30He did.
06:30And people there said he looked right at this Maggie person, looked really pleased with himself.
06:35Smug, even.
06:36Wow.
06:36He made absolutely sure everyone knew what he was doing.
06:39And why?
06:40Okay, but why?
06:41I mean, I want to push back a bit on the simple explanation.
06:44The sources say he was sick of being Mr. Nicole Kidman.
06:47Right.
06:47And is just lashing out.
06:49That's the main theory.
06:50Yeah.
06:50The sort of core emotional reason he wants his own identity back after almost 20 years
06:55in her shadow, feeling controlled, maybe.
06:58Okay, we'll think about that prenup clause.
07:00That potential $11 million he loses by, presumably, breaking the spirit of their agreement, if not
07:06the letter, plus the hit to his reputation.
07:09Is simple spite worth that much?
07:11That's a great question.
07:13I mean, Nicole arguably made him a bigger star globally, didn't she?
07:16She leveled him up from being just a country guy to this huge international name.
07:20You could definitely argue that.
07:21So if he's lashing out because he felt kind of small next to her, isn't he just shooting
07:26himself in the foot?
07:27Financially, reputationally, it feels like.
07:30Yeah.
07:30Self-sabotage disguised as freedom.
07:32It does seem extreme.
07:34And that's where things get a bit murky.
07:36Maybe it is desperation, or maybe it's a calculated move to get ahead of Nicole's PR team, you know.
07:41Control the story first.
07:44Possible.
07:45And we also have to be careful.
07:46Maggie Bao is the name everyone's using, but my sources.
07:48They couldn't actually confirm it was her definitively.
07:52Oh, interesting.
07:53Could be another name circulating in Nashville.
07:55Or, you know how celebrities are.
07:56Yeah.
07:57Maybe Keith is deliberately moneying the waters, throwing us off track.
08:01They kind of enjoy the attention, right?
08:03Even negative attention keeps them relevant.
08:05It's like relationship warfare played out in public using their own history as ammunition.
08:09Crazy stuff.
08:10Totally.
08:11So, let's try and summarize for the listener.
08:13What does this all boil down to?
08:15We've got a 19-year relationship, apparently built partly on this very specific financial contract about sobriety, that seems to have finally broken down over an emotional connection, not just addiction.
08:26And the split isn't happening quietly.
08:29It's happening very publicly, very deliberately, complete with, like, live concert lyric changes.
08:35Yeah.
08:35It marks the end of a huge celebrity power couple.
08:38And because of all that financial stuff, the prenup, maybe other agreements we don't know about, plus these legal moves like Portugal citizenship.
08:46Yeah.
08:47The divorce itself, that's going to be way more interesting and probably way more fought over than even this messy public breakup.
08:54The battle lines were drawn 19 years ago financially, maybe?
08:57But the emotional damage.
08:59That's happening right now, in real time.
09:01Okay.
09:01So, that leaves us with maybe one last thought, a question for you, the listener, to chew on.
09:06Even how public and, frankly, kind of brutal this is getting.
09:09Yeah.
09:09And remembering they have two teenage daughters together.
09:11Why wouldn't Keith just try to keep it more dignified for their sake?
09:14Why choose this path of public humiliation?
09:18It really makes you think about celebrity priorities, doesn't it?
09:21When that desire for personal freedom or maybe revenge clashes with protecting your own kids from the fallout.
09:28It really does.
09:29What's the real cost of fame when your private life becomes a public weapon?
09:33Something to think about.
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