Before his split from Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban performed a song on his CBS series The Road about a “toxic” couple who aren’t “good” for each other.
During the Sunday, November 30, episode of the competition show, Urban, 57, ended a concert in Little Rock, Arkansas, with a performance of his 2024 song “Messed Up as Me” from his album High.
“When you get mad, you stay that way / And you always say you’re doin’ OK / But we both know it’s probably a lie / And you’re fallin’ to pieces on the inside,” Urban sang. “And you’re out tonight like you always are / You’re dressed to kill, and your lips are red, and misery still loves company.”
He continued: “Are you as messed up as me and all alone? / And all of your friends have all gone home / And you hate that the truth / Is nobody leaves your head and your heart, and your bed and your sheets / As messed up as / Me and you.”
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Urban previously reflected on the meaning behind the hit track.
“This song is about a relationship … should we call it a relationship ??? We’re calling it a relationship. It’s about two people who know they aren’t good for each other,” he wrote via Instagram in March 2024. “It’s dysfunctional, makes no sense, it might even be toxic, but they keep going back because there’s one thing they’re REALLY good at !!!”
One month before The Road premiered in October, Us Weekly confirmed that Kidman, 58, and Urban had split after 19 years of marriage. They met in 2005 following her divorce from Tom Cruise. After one year of dating, Kidman and Urban got married and expanded their family in 2008 with the arrival of daughter Sunday Rose. Two years later, Kidman and Urban welcomed daughter Faith via surrogate. (Kidman is also the mother of daughter Isabella and son Connor, whom she adopted with Cruise, 63.)
“I have the most extraordinary partner in life. I will always say that about him,” Kidman said in a 2019 interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I’m one of the very fortunate women in the world to have had a wonderful father, and I have a wonderful husband, and I’m just very — I love to be able to say that because to talk about the good men that have influenced me and affected me.”
Kidman was also honest about the work that went into her marriage.
“We’re always working through stuff, but it’s very much love-based, so there’s an enormous amount of give and take,” she explained in the September 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “I want him to have the best life he can have, and he responds the same way. We really love parenting together.”
At the time, Kidman addressed her high-profile split from Cruise in 2001, adding, “I was young. I think I offered it up? Maybe I’ve gotten a bit more trepidatious, but I’m always trying to be as open as possible.”
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She continued: “I just prefer to live in the world that way. I’m wary at times, and I’ve been hurt, but at the same time I much prefer a warm approach rather than a prickly shutdown approach. My husband, Keith, says that when he met me, he said, ‘How’s your heart?’ And I apparently responded, ‘Open.’”
Urban, for his part, used The Road to address the highs and lows of life on tour.
“Where do we start? It’s a calling, and you’re going to do it or you’re not going to make it,” he explained in the series premiere. “When you wake up on a tour bus at 3:30 in the morning and you’re sick as a dog, you’re in the middle of nowhere and you’ve got to play your fifth show later that night, and you haven’t slept, and you miss your friends, and you’re missing your family, and you’re completely lonely and miserable and sick — and you say to yourself, ‘Why am I doing this?’”
Urban added: “The only answer can be: because this is what I’m born to do. We’re going to find out who’s made for that stuff [on this show].”
The Road airs on CBS Sundays at 9:30 p.m. ET before streaming on Paramount+.
