Is this the end for one of Hollywood's most beloved couples? In this exclusive interview, celebrity gossip expert Rob Shuter drops bombshells about the alleged divorce of Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman. We're diving into the shocking details behind the celebrity breakup, including explosive rumors of Keith Urban's secret romance and a potential affair.
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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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