'We had to bare our souls' ... Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban.
FOR most couples, the honeymoon period lasts for at least three months, but Nicole Kidman has admitted that her country singer husband Keith Urban's battle with the bottle sent their fledgling union into a tailspin.
"We were thrown into his alcohol problems three months into the marriage and that was big," the 41-year-old actress told the Daily Mail newspaper in London as the couple prepared to leave Australia for the US with their baby, Sunday Rose.
She said Urban had admitted his problem and spent time in rehabilitation, which made their relationship stronger. "We became the closest we could become because we had to bare our souls. We did 10 years of marriage in just three months. When the addiction takes control of someone's life, it's terrifying. But there is hope, and we work on it every day."
Kidman, Urban and nine-month-old Sunday Rose spent last week at their $6.5 million Southern Highlands estate. They left for the US city of Nashville on Friday.
Kidman said she enjoys the laid-back charm of the town. "We lead a very easy, simple life there, and that suits me much better these days. As I get older, I have a real need to be around nature."
During her previous marriage to Tom Cruise, the couple adopted two children, Isabella, 16, and Connor, 14. However, giving birth to Sunday Rose in her 40s has given her a greater sense of her own mortality, she said.
"It's bittersweet," she said. "I want to be around to see Sunday Rose's 21st birthday . . . My relationship with death used to be far more ambivalent . . . now it feels much more important for me to stay in the world."
"We were thrown into his alcohol problems three months into the marriage and that was big," the 41-year-old actress told the Daily Mail newspaper in London as the couple prepared to leave Australia for the US with their baby, Sunday Rose.
She said Urban had admitted his problem and spent time in rehabilitation, which made their relationship stronger. "We became the closest we could become because we had to bare our souls. We did 10 years of marriage in just three months. When the addiction takes control of someone's life, it's terrifying. But there is hope, and we work on it every day."
Kidman, Urban and nine-month-old Sunday Rose spent last week at their $6.5 million Southern Highlands estate. They left for the US city of Nashville on Friday.
Kidman said she enjoys the laid-back charm of the town. "We lead a very easy, simple life there, and that suits me much better these days. As I get older, I have a real need to be around nature."
During her previous marriage to Tom Cruise, the couple adopted two children, Isabella, 16, and Connor, 14. However, giving birth to Sunday Rose in her 40s has given her a greater sense of her own mortality, she said.
"It's bittersweet," she said. "I want to be around to see Sunday Rose's 21st birthday . . . My relationship with death used to be far more ambivalent . . . now it feels much more important for me to stay in the world."
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