HE’S THE MANE –
June 2025 – In an interview on The Zane Lowe Show, the 57-year-old singer shared that for years, he lived with a voice inside him saying a final choice was coming.
“All through the years of drinking and doing drugs… I always had this very specific voice inside of me that goes, ‘One day, you’re gonna come to a crossroads,’” Urban said. “There won’t be a next time. And you’ll know when it comes.”
That moment came in 2006, just four months after he married actress Nicole Kidman. She staged an intervention, and Urban knew it was the moment he had to choose life—or lose everything.
“I knew that was it. I’m like, ‘Oh, this is that fork in the road,’” he said.
Urban, now sober for almost 19 years, said he didn’t come to America to end up in rehab or courtrooms.
“I came to America to make music and grow as an artist and as a human being… What am I doing?”
But his battle with addiction didn’t start overnight. After moving from Australia to Nashville, he felt like an outsider in the country music world. Despite past success overseas, he struggled with self-doubt and heartbreak, leading to heavier drinking and drug use.
