Nicole's husband checks into drink clinic
Keith Urban has checked himself into a rehabilitation treatment centre for alcohol abuse, less than four months after the Grammy-winning country singer’s marriage to actress Nicole Kidman.
Urban released a statement that said he entered rehab on Thursday night with his wife by his side. His publicist, Paul Freundlich, would not give the location of the rehab centre.
“I deeply regret the hurt this has caused Nicole and the ones that love and support me,” Urban said in the statement.
Urban, who is 39 next Thursday, has publicly acknowledged a former addiction to cocaine, but his publicist said Urban was being treated for alcohol abuse.
“One can never let one’s guard down on recovery, and I’m afraid that I have,” the statement read.
“With the strength and unwavering support I am blessed to have from my wife, family and friends, I am determined and resolved to a positive outcome.”
His new CD, Love, Pain, & The Whole Crazy Thing, will be released next month as scheduled, but he will postpone all upcoming promotional appearances.
Urban would also probably cancel an appearance on the Country Music Association awards next month, the publicist said.
Kidman and Urban, who were both raised in Australia, married on June 25 in Sydney. They then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where Urban records.
Urban won a Grammy this year for best male country vocalist for You’ll Think Of Me and was named top male vocalist for the second year in a row by the Academy of Country Music.
A Country Weekly magazine reader poll this year named him country music’s sexiest man.
