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Kidman knew, of course, that the man she married in a fairy-tale wedding in Sydney on June 25, a little over a year after they met at a gala for noted Australians in January 2005, had battled addiction before. Urban has been candid about his use in the ’90s of cocaine – which he described in 2002 as "demonic." He wrote the 2002 song "You Won" with his friend, Nashville veteran Rodney Crowell, about the spiritual surrender that helped him get clean. And he celebrated his triumph over cocaine in the track “You’re Not My God” (“You’re not my God/ And you’re not my friend/ You’re not the one that I will walk with in the end”). But as Urban pointed out in a statement released on Oct. 20, “One can never let one’s guard down in recovery, and I’m afraid that I have.”
This time, his spokesman says, he is only being treated for alcohol abuse, and “contrary to speculative reports and rumors, there was no one cataclysmic event” that led to the decision to enter rehab, which he made with Kidman.
Those who saw Urban struggle to get clean a decade ago – including a stint at Nashville’s Cumberland Heights treatment center and a relapse – are especially disheartened. “It’s terrible that it has such a hold on him,” says one industry insider. “He’s so talented and such a good person – and he loves [Kidman] so much. He just tries so hard.”
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