Before his separation from Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban performed a song on his CBS series The Road about a “toxic” couple who are not “good” for each other.
During the Sunday, Nov. 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 like this / And you always say you’re fine / But we both know it’s probably a lie / And you’re falling apart inside,” Urban sang. “And tonight you’re out as always / 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 your friends have gone home / And you hate that the truth / Is that nobody leaves your head and your heart and your bed and your sheets / As messed up as / me and you.”
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’re not good for each other,” she wrote via Instagram in March 2024. “It’s dysfunctional, it doesn’t make sense, it can even be toxic, but they keep coming back because there’s one thing they’re SO good at!!!”
Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson and Blake Shelton
Connie Chornuk/CBSA month before The Road released in October, Us Weekly confirmed that Kidman, 58, and Urban had separated after 19 years of marriage. They met in 2005 after their divorce Tom Cruise. After a year of dating, Kidman and Urban married and expanded their family in 2008 with the arrival of daughter Sunday Rose. Two years later, Kidman and Urban welcomed daughter Faith as a surrogate. (Kidman is also mother to daughter Isabella and son Connor, whom she adopted with Cruise, 63.)
“I have the most extraordinary partner in life. I’ll always say that about him,” Kidman said in a 2019 interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I’m one of the very lucky women in the world to have had a wonderful father, and I have a wonderful husband, and I’m so, I love being able to say that because I talk about the good men who have influenced and affected me.”
Kidman was also honest about the work he did entered into his marriage.
“We’re always working on stuff, but it’s very much based on love, so there’s a huge 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 possibly have, and he responds in kind. We love being parents together.”
Kidman then addressed her high-profile split from Cruise in 2001, adding: “I was young. I think I gave it to myself? Maybe I’ve become a little more uptight, 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. Sometimes I’m suspicious and I’ve been hurt, but at the same time I prefer a warm approach rather than a prickly shut-off approach. My husband, Keith, says that when he met me, he said to me, ‘How’s your heart?’ And I seem to have answered, “Open.”
Urban, on the other hand, used The Road a deal with the ups and downs of life on tour.
“Where do we start? It’s a call, and you’re either going to make it or you’re not going to make it,” he explained at the series premiere. “When you wake up on a tour bus at 3:30 in the morning and you’re sick as a dog and you’re in the middle of nowhere and you have to play your fifth show later that night, and you haven’t slept, and you miss your friends, and you miss your family, and you’re completely alone and miserable, and you say that to yourself?
Urban added, “The only answer can be: Because this is what I was born to do. We’re going to find out who’s made for these things (on this show).”
The Road airs Sundays on CBS at 9:30 pm ET before streaming on Paramount+.