Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban split 19 years later
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban split together after 19 years, according to TMZ. They share two daughters.
Heartbreak in Hollywood is everywhere.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban split after 19 years of marriage. The first person to share the news and TMZ reported on September 29 that 57-year-old Urban and Kidman, 58, were separated. USA Today reached out to both Kidman and Urban representatives for comment. The couple first met in Los Angeles 20 years ago and married a year later on June 25th, 2006 near Sydney, Australia.
The internet is frenzy. Some fans have dissected who will be responsible and who will earn money in such a high-profile divorce. Others have already thought that Kidman would date next, and many are simply uneasy and sad. One Tiktok creator argued that 19-year marriage should not be considered a failure, but a success in today’s society.
“Let them live,” says the Creator. “I’m more interested in her next AMC commercial than this.”
Whatever the hot take, you can’t look away. That’s because we love to monitor the highs and lows of celebrities, experts say.
And speculation about Kidman and Urban’s breakup speaks about us much more than we realize.
Tell yourself
We are all familiar with dotting the look of the Urban and Kidman red carpet. The couple is renowned for supporting each other, from Hollywood acclaim to cross-country music tours.
But experts say it’s behind a public kiss, and famous celebrities manage carefully curated images. Just in June, the “Dutch” actress shared a behind-the-scenes photo of herself embracing Urban for the 19th anniversary of her wedding, simply captioning an Instagram post. Such a sudden shift reminds us that despite our best intentions, we never truly know what is going on behind the song or screen.
And now, it’s even more difficult for Urban and Kidman to control the story now than ever before.
This is because fans feel they know celebrities, they are called parasocial relationships and are already determining their own truth. Whatever is said or not said by a couple, the Internet fills the gap with its own theory. Aside from Instagram posts, we decided what happened.
“We identify with that.”
Another reason we respond is that we have to do with our daughters’ parents, Urban and Kidman, Rose on Sunday, 17, and Margaret on Faith, 14. Whether we are our own parents or whether our parents become separate or not, experiences are struck by chords.
“The reason we keep opening and clicking on updates… because we can all identify it,” Robert Thompson, director of Briar TV Center and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, previously told USA Today. “It’s part of the amazing lifestyle we can actually get into.”
But seeing A-list couples fall apart, they are given green light for downward comparisons, and they feel better about themselves by grabbing the drama, West Virginia University’s professor of communication studies, Elizabeth Cohen previously told USA Today.
Either way, if you catch yourself with an emotional uplift, it may be an indicator to pause the scrolling. It may be time to write your own story on behalf of others.
