00:00okay can we just talk about this keith urban and nicole kidman
00:0420 years and now it's actually officially over yeah like divorce papers filed and everything
00:09it's huge that whole image you know the last great love story shattered and yeah the documents are
00:16real filed by nicole 20 years 20 years down the drain it feels like i don't know like a hollywood
00:22ending gone wrong but the part that really floored me the bit that's like wow is this supposed
00:27confession right there have always been whispers maybe some smoke right but now reports are saying
00:34keith actually admitted to being with someone else yeah that's the absolute core of this breaking
00:39story it's not just speculation anymore sources are pretty clear there was another woman and keith
00:44well he finally admitted it he admitted it and apparently nicole isn't disputing that part
00:48which suddenly makes all those like awkward moments or weird silences make a whole lot more sense you
00:53know totally okay so let's really get into this welcome back everyone you're listening to the
00:57latest celebrity gossip i'm steve and i'm ainsley today we are diving deep into the keith urban and
01:04nicole kidman story what happened to this couple everyone thought was unbreakable we're going way
01:10beyond just the headlines here exactly we're looking at how they kept up that uh perfect front for so long
01:17and what these irreconcilable differences really mean based on everything that's coming out so let's start
01:22with the immediate stuff the split itself reports say keith moved out way back like at the beginning
01:29of the summer yeah packed up and got his own place in nashville so this wasn't like a sudden thing
01:33yesterday the physical separation happened quite a while before the legal filing that suggests things
01:39were completely broken down for a while then seems like it i mean if the admission happened and then he
01:44moves out the marriage was basically over months ago the public just didn't know and remember their last
01:49big public appearance that world cup event that was only about three months ago right and they looked
01:55well they did the whole united front thing for the cameras arms linked smiling yeah the usual
02:00performance but then literally like five days later nicole posts that anniversary message happy
02:06anniversary baby with the photo really sweet super sweet and from keith nothing silence
02:14zilch crickets which is i mean in the celebrity world that's basically a giant flashing sign isn't
02:20it totally if you're trying to sell the perfect love story you have to do the anniversary post it's
02:24like rule number one exactly and that silence wow now we know why things were already falling apart
02:31and then you look at nicole's recent photos those summer memories things oh yeah i saw those loads of
02:35pictures with their daughters but keith nowhere not in a single shot wow okay so the separation wasn't just
02:42physical it was like emotionally complete already in the family unit seems that way which you know
02:48makes you wonder about the foundation of this whole thing you need to look back i think yeah because
02:51this recent stuff feels like the final crack but maybe the base was shaky all along they sold us this
02:58perfect image but sources are painting a different picture remember the wedding sydney june 2006 huge
03:06beautiful everyone talking about it oh yeah it was massive and then just four months later bam
03:12crisis mode keith's addiction issues which maybe weren't fully dealt with just exploded he even
03:18said later it blew our marriage up right at the start four months that's wow and nicole
03:24the stories say she basically became his rock right his lifeline totally sounds like she staged a major
03:31intervention friends said it was intense like get help now or you lose everything marriage career the
03:38whole deal and he did didn't he checked into betty ford yep for three months think about that
03:44newlyweds massive stars and suddenly one is in rehab and the other is holding everything together
03:49under this insane media spotlight she must have been under incredible pressure fighting for a marriage
03:54that was barely out of the gate absolutely and carrying that burden you know so all those years on
03:59the red carpet looking flawless that was covering up like therapy sessions arguments probably a lot of tears
04:05she fought really hard apparently had to be strong maybe even controlling sometimes just to keep
04:10things stable so was the whole performance just for the public or for them too like trying to convince
04:16themselves probably a bit of both right you project strength hope it becomes real but it sounds like she
04:21carried the weight of his struggles for years shielding him protecting the kids later on okay but wait
04:28if she knew about the addiction stood by him through all of that for nearly 20 years
04:33years why would the other woman be the thing that ends it wouldn't the core problems already be there
04:40that's a really sharp point i think the addiction the dynamic it created that was like the long-term
04:44damage to the structure you know right the foundation was cracked exactly but him admitting infidelity
04:50that was the final blow the ultimate betrayal maybe after everything she'd apparently sacrificed and
04:56endured it's one thing to battle demons together another to face well that kind of disrespect
05:01that makes sense and then pile on the pressure of two massive careers global stars how do you even
05:08manage that well reports say they tried the system like one person steps back while the other shines
05:14she skips the grammys he stays low during oscar season so they weren't really partners in it just
05:19taking turns kind of coexisting professionally maybe but that creates distance doesn't it and sometimes the
05:26mask slipped remember that interview which one where keith was asked about nicole doing love scenes
05:32specifically with zach efron i think oh yeah he got really weird about it didn't he totally recoiled
05:38just shut down the interview like he couldn't even pretend to be the supportive husband in that moment
05:42the strain was showing yeah you could see it and add that to like critics talking about his music
05:48changing and her always being under the microscope it's pressure from all sides the fame becomes its
05:54own kind of prison maybe and then there's the money aspect which is interesting right the financials
06:00nicole's worth way more isn't she like significantly more yeah estimates are around 250 million dollars
06:05for her maybe 75 million dollars for him and weirdly that imbalance might have actually helped the marriage
06:12last longer how so well if one person needs to take a back seat sometimes like keith might have
06:17financially the bigger cushion from her side makes that possible without you know intense financial
06:23pressure on him to constantly match her level okay i see so it gave them flexibility maybe right
06:28let him manage his career differently possibly it created a specific dynamic where she was clearly the
06:34uh financial anchor but obviously money can't fix everything clearly not which brings us to the
06:40divorce details the actual arrangements hmm and this part this speaks volumes it really does it's
06:46like the final piece of evidence the documents say nicole is the primary residential parent primary is
06:51putting it mildly what are the numbers she gets 306 days a year with their daughters 306 wow compared to
06:58keith's 59 days 59 that's that's incredibly telling isn't it it's stark that massive difference
07:04basically confirms everything we've been talking about who was really holding down the fort
07:10day to day for all those years yeah it paints a picture of her being the constant the main parent
07:15managing the family protecting the kids while he was well dealing with his issues in his career exactly
07:21the custody split feels like the final accounting for those two decades so when you boil it all down
07:28this wasn't just about infidelity was it that might have been the final straw the confession but the roots go
07:33way deeper years of strain the unequal burden the slow erosion of trust all hidden behind that perfect
07:40hollywood smile the custody arrangement just puts it in black and white it's a reminder i guess that
07:46even with all the fame and money you can't escape these really human struggles the weight of that public
07:51image just became too much yeah that perfect love story ended with a custody schedule 306 days to 59.
07:58that says it all really the fairy tale had a price and now we know what it was well that's all the
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