Alcohol Rehab-A Sobering Decision
Alcohol Rehab-A Sobering Decision
After years of struggling with addiction, Keith Urban checks into rehab for alcohol abuse with Nicole Kidman, his wife of four months, at his side
Thursday Oct 26, 2006 12:00pm EST
“They are in this together,” a friend says of the couple (at the Grammys in February). “You really do have to take this one day at a time.”
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At Bread & Company, a cozy cafe in Nashville, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman are known as the oatmeal-and-egg-white-omelette couple. They place the same order every time they come in – including the morning of Oct. 3 when, over their usual, “they chatted with one another, smiled and seemed very relaxed,” says one observer. And so it was right up until Urban dashed in for an oatmeal to go on Oct. 16 – and then stopped coming.
Three days later the staff at Bread & Company were dumbfounded to find out why: Not 24 hours after doing several interviews for his new album Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing, the country star checked into a alcohol rehab clinic to treat a drinking problem. “We just all hope Nicole sticks by him through this,” says one staffer, “and that they come out stronger.”
By all accounts, she has. On Oct. 19, when Urban stunned even those close to him by admitting himself into alcohol rehab – canceling all work commitments just days before the Nov. 7 release of his CD – Kidman was at his side. She too had to bring a pause to a busy schedule that in the past month or so has at times kept her far apart from her husband. Though she was scheduled to do promotional work for her movie Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus in L.A. over the weekend, she called it all off in order to be with Urban when he entered alcohol rehab. “She is standing by him,” a friend says of the actress. “They have a commitment to each other. It’s incredibly painful, but they’re working it out together.”
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