Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban: Friends saw separation come

The marriage of Nicole Kidman (58) and Keith Urban (57) makes headlines. The closest environment of the two obviously did not surprise the separation. “It was really no secret”. The actress and the country musician “have been living separately for some time”. For people who are close to Keith Urban, the separation even seemed “inevitable”, it continues. Details were not given.

The Oscar winner is said to have fought for marriage. “She didn’t want that. She fought to save marriage,” explains the source compared to the US magazine. Kidman’s sister Antonia is “a rock in the surf” for the 58-year-old in this difficult time. “The entire Kidman family came together to support each other,” it says.

Kidman and Urban married in 2006 and received two daughters together: Sunday Rose (17) and Faith Margaret (14). For the last time the couple was seen together in public in June – at a FIFA Club World Cup game between Los Angeles Football Club and Esperance de Tunis in Nashville, Tennessee.

A few days later, the couple celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary. that she intensely shows her husband. “Happy anniversary, baby,” she wrote at the time. Nobody suspected how serious the crisis was already at this point.

Both come from labor -intensive summer months. , while Urban was on his “High and Alive World Tour”. His next appearance is planned for October 2 in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

. “I think it is about knowing that you have to continue to contribute to what we ‘call this,” she said at the time. You always have to ask yourself: “Does that work for us?” If you create a “we”, the two belong together. “Nobody else has it. It’s just between you two.”

And Keith Urbangebie the 49th Afi Life Achievement Award Gala by his wife when she was honored. He praised her “heart and her spirit” and remembered how he met her for the first time: “It felt like I was meeting a real princess.” Despite his nervousness, he raised the courage to call her after scribbling her phone number on a small note.

The news at the end of the relationship became known on September 29 – just three months after the 19th wedding anniversary of the former dream couple. “TMZ” first reported on the separation. The two stars or their representatives have not yet commented.