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- Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have separated, PEOPLE confirmed on Monday, Sept. 29
- The couple first met in 2005 and tied the knot the next year
- They share two daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban didn’t shy away from commenting candidly on their relationship over the past two decades.
On Monday, Sept. 29 PEOPLE confirmed that the couple split after 19-years of marriage. A source exclusively told PEOPLE, “She didn’t want this. She has been fighting to save the marriage,” while adding that “Nicole’s sister has been a rock and the entire Kidman family has come together to support one another.”
The pair first met at a gala in 2005 and eventually wed the following year. During the relationship, they welcomed daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.
Kidman, 58, previously told PEOPLE that the country music artist released her favorite song, “Once in a Lifetime,” five months after the pair wed in 2006. “Keith wrote that for me when we were first getting married,” she recalled.
In 2018, Kidman shared insight into their relationship with PEOPLE. “I think it’s knowing that you have to keep contributing to what we call the ‘us.’ You go, ‘Does this work for us?’ ” she said. “When you make an us, it’s yours together — that’s what you create.”
The Oscar winner told PEOPLE in April 2024, that Urban, 57, is “my love, my deep, deep love.” Later that year, she told PEOPLE that Urban still asked her out on dates at the time. “I like not knowing where he’s going to take me. Surprise me, baby!”
Kidman also shared the secret to the couple’s long-lasting love with PEOPLE, saying, “I think it’s knowing that you have to keep contributing to what we call the ‘us.’ You go, ‘Does this work for us?’ When you make an us, it’s yours together — that’s what you create.”
In January 2025, Kidman revealed another “key to a successful marriage,” telling W Magazine, “The double-headed shower: key to a successful marriage. Separate commodes and a double-headed shower!”
Meanwhile, Urban has also opened up their relationship. In 2016, he told CBS News that meeting Kidman and “getting married wasn’t life-changing, it was life-beginning.”
Nearly five years ago, Urban appeared on Dax Shepard’s podcast, Armchair Expert, and said, “She’s just the one, that was it,” per TODAY. Adding, “She’s the one that I was searching for my whole life.”
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In April 2024, when Kidman earned the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award, Urban gave a speech in her honor. “She also has a bit of a mantra, and that is: Choose love.”
“Now I’ve watched her do this many times, navigating emotionally complex things that she’s gone through with so many people. She always chooses that phrase; she lives by it. Choose love,” he revealed, per TODAY. “She has the capacity to love like no one I’ve ever met.”
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