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Keith Urban Recalls Being ‘Nervous’ to Call Nicole Kidman After They First Met: She’s ‘a Real-Life Princess’
Keith Urban is reminding everyone that he got it right when it comes to his longtime love for Nicole Kidman.
During the country crooner’s emotional speech honoring his wife at the star-studded 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala on Saturday, April 27, Urban recalled why he was too “nervous” to make a move after they first met.
“I was trying to play it cool, but inside I felt like I’d snuck into the royal ball simply because Nic had such a truly otherworldly aura about her,” said Urban, 56, remembering when he met Kidman, also 56, in January 2005 at a G’Day LA event in California.
“I felt a bit like I was meeting a real-life princess,” Urban added. “And despite all of that, I did manage to get her phone number on a tiny piece of paper.”
Urban carried her number in his pocket for a week, occasionally pulling it out to try to muster enough courage to call her.
“I was scared. I was nervous to call her,” he continued during his speech at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. “I did, as you probably figured out, pluck up the courage to finally call her.”
The call went well, with the once-nervous Urban recalling how “this mystic creature” turned out to be “just a wide-eyed, giddy girl from the Sydney suburbs” who is “utterly Aussie through and through,” even though she was born in Honolulu.
The AFI tribute to Kidman, which also marked the first public red carpet event for her and Urban’s teenage daughters, included other speeches from celebrity friends such as Reese Witherspoon, Naomi Watts and Zac Efron.
“Everyone’s speaking here tonight is going to talk about Nic’s talent, and I could easily do that myself,” Urban said. “I mean, she truly is one of the greats, as Russell Crowe said, and tonight proves that I’m not just a biased husband.”
The proud husband went on to discuss how Kidman loved him even when he went to rehab for substance abuse shortly after they got married.
“I do want to take an opportunity to talk about Nic’s heart and her spirit. We got married in June, 2006 and barely four months into our marriage, my addictions that I’d done really nothing about, blew our marriage to smithereens,” Urban admitted. “And I went into the Betty Ford Center for three months. Four months into a marriage I’m in rehab for three months. I had no idea what was going to happen to us.”
The story brought Kidman to tears as she listened in the audience, alongside her Big Little Lies costars — Meryl Streep and Witherspoon — and Morgan Freeman, who worked with her on Lioness.
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“And if you want to see what love in action really looks like, give that a whirl,” he said. “Nic pushed through every negative voice, I’m sure even some of her own. And she chose love. And here we are tonight, 18 years later.”
Not long after rehab, Urban released a song about Kidman called “Got It Right This Time,” featuring the heartfelt lyrics, “She believes in me like I’ve been trying to do, I’m seeing things I’ve never seen before. Ever since she came into my life, I’ve been a better man.”
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Jelly Roll celebrates ‘Night Before’ the NFL draft at Fillmore Detroit
Jelly Roll, the big character with the arena-sized draw, scaled things down Wednesday for a relatively intimate show in the city he affectionately called his “second home.”
The breakout country-rock-rap star hit the Fillmore Detroit to serve up a 1-hour, 15-minute set of familiar tunes — and one brand-new song — for a capacity crowd of 3,000.
Billed as “The Night Before,” the WYCD-sponsored show wasn’t officially affiliated with the NFL Draft, which will run Thursday-Saturday just down Woodward Avenue from the Fillmore. But in a downtown corridor already buzzing ahead of the big event, Jelly Roll’s visit certainly fit the festive mood.
Coming just eight months after a sellout show at Pine Knob Music Theatre, the Fillmore was the Tennessee native’s most intimate Detroit concert since his gigs years ago at spots such as Harpo’s and the Shelter — venues he shouted out Wednesday while vowing his next one in the city will be at Little Caesars Arena.
Jelly Roll, in typical chatty and high-spirited form, loaded his 18-song set with material from “Ballads of the Broken” and “Whitsitt Chapel,” the albums that propelled him onto the national radar after years in the musical trenches, making him the toast of awards shows and gushing cover stories.
Much of that appeal comes from his rags-to-redemption personal story — from teen battles with drugs and prison to life as a cleaned-up redneck hero with an often-penetrating lyrical touch.
He was introduced onstage Wednesday by quasi-Detroiter Flavor Flav, who led the crowd in a singalong of Jelly Roll’s “Save Me,” the same song that would later close the show.
Bunnie XO, his wife and a frequent fixture at his shows, was on the West Coast taping her Dumb Blonde podcast, Jelly Roll alerted the crowd. But for “Kill a Man,” on which Bunnie is a typical duet partner live, the night got another special guest: Singer Madeline Merlo, who sang on the original 2023 track.
As with his previous Detroit stops, the gregarious singer-rapper shared generous Motor City love: He manned the stage in a royal-D Tigers ballcap, gushed about Detroit as home to both his favorite rapper and rock ‘n’ roller (Eminem and Bob Seger), saluted the Lions’ recent successes and applauded the city’s resurgence.
Ahead of “Son of a Sinner” — the 2022 hit that became his first country chart-topper — Jelly Roll had kind words for his night’s host, hailing WYCD’s Tim Roberts as one of the first country radio programmers to “take a chance” on his music.
Fans at the Fillmore, many of them WYCD contest winners, got treated to a sneak peek of a new work, “Liar,” another wrestling-demons song with a catchy ’70s touch.
Jelly Roll’s Wednesday show was his sixth Michigan appearance since 2023, and he’ll make it seven when he plays the biggest one of his career — a headlining set at July’s Faster Horses Festival.
Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or [email protected].
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