Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman and her husband, Keith Urban, an Australian-American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, have been inseparable since the pair fell in love in the early 2000s.
How Nicole Kidman Met Keith Urban
Kidman was coming off her marriage to “Top Gun” actor Tom Cruise, with whom she shares two children when her paths crossed with Urban in 2005 at the G’Day USA gala, which honors Australians in Los Angeles.She kept herself busy with her acting career straight after her divorce, but five years on, Kidman felt the loneliest she had ever been, sitting in her Beverly Hills Hotel after winning an Oscar.
The actress had decided it was time to start working on her personal life when she and Urban ran into each other at the event. She initially thought Urban did not like her when they first met because he showed no interest in her.
Surprisingly, Urban called her four months later; the pair hit it off immediately, and they started dating shortly after. On Kidman’s birthday, Urban surprised her with a motorcycle trip to Woodstock, New York.
He showed up outside her New York residence with gardenias at 5 a.m. At that point, Kidman believed she had found her soulmate, also partly because she was a romantic.
It did not take long before the couple tied the knot in a wedding attended by multiple celebrities, including fellow Aussies Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Naomi Watts.
Their beautiful wedding ceremony was held at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel on St. Patrick’s Estate at Manly in Sydney, Australia. Afterward, the couple left for their honeymoon in French Polynesia.
In October 2006, their marriage hit a couple of snags when Urban checked himself into rehab months after saying I do, due to his substance abuse struggles. At the time, he had relapsed.
The country singer had been to rehab twice before and was open to Kidman about his issues and addiction to drugs like Cocaine. The actress planned an intervention after this, and Urban has been able to stay sober since.
Kidman was eager to start a family with Urban, and she gave birth to their first child, daughter Sunday Rose, in 2008. The pair then welcomed their second daughter, Faith Margaret, through a surrogate in 2010.
Discussing her challenges with fertility, Kidman disclosed that she wished she and Urban had crossed paths earlier in life because she would have loved having more kids with the country singer.