Keith Urban leaves rehab, heads to Australia
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 – Keith Urban reportedly has finished rehabilitation for alcohol abuse and returned to Australia to be with his wife, Nicole Kidman, the Associated Press reported.
Kidman and Urban reunited in the actress' hometown of Sydney.
Urban, 39, checked himself into a rehabilitation treatment center in the U.S. in October, with Kidman by his side. He flew into Sydney on Tuesday, Australian Associated Press reported.
Urban previously had been treated for cocaine abuse. He was born in Australia.
Urban and Kidman issued no statement to the press. They were married in June in Sydney and moved to Nashville.
More news for Keith Urban
- 01/13/25: Urban goes north
- 12/09/24: Urban returns to touring
- 10/25/24: Jelly Roll, Urban, Combs headline Tortuga Fest
- 10/08/24: Urban named to co-host Nashville's Big Bash on NYE
- 09/20/24: Urban, Midland, ZBB, Tenpenny release new discs
- 06/28/24: Urban goes "High"
- 05/17/24: Urban gets "Messed Up" on The Voice
- 05/06/24: Urben gets HIGH in Vegas
CD reviews for Keith Urban
Following hits "Straight Line," "Wildside" and "Go Home W U" featuring Lainey Wilson, Keith Urban drops thematically driven and pleasantly electrifying album "High," a nearly four-year drop since 2020's "The Speed of Now Part 1."
Urban took great interest in feelings and experiences associated with the word "high," reflecting on his own passions approaching the sensation or "place of utopia" as Urban dubs it . ...
It's getting tougher and tougher all the time to justify categorizing Keith Urban's music as country. "The Speed of Now, Pt. 1" doesn't help. (What, is there a pt. 2 of this largely lame music on the way? Say it ain't so!) It's a relatively good pop album, for a Nashville pop effort, but there's just too much real country (Jon Pardi, Luke Combs) getting played on mainstream radio these days. The world just doesn't really need new Urban pop music. ...
It's telling how two songs on Keith Urban's "Graffiti U" album chug along to a reggae beat because pop rhythms and non-country elements are the obvious inspirations for this collection. Opener "Coming Home" may borrow (steal?) a guitar riff from Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," but this is where that country road begins and ends.
Urban follows "Coming Home" with "Never Comin' Down," which is introduced with a funky bass line ...
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