ONE DRUNK TALKING TO ANOTHER –
May 16, 2025 – “I will say that Keith Urban became a friend of mine in a time when I was making a transition in life,” Gilbert says. “I honestly don’t know if I’d be sitting in this room if it weren’t for that man, and him taking time out of his life to come talk to me. It was a time when I’d stopped drinking and stopped doing some other things, and was just kind of unsure about moving forward.
And he, again, took time out of his life and talked to me, and I’ll never forget that as long as I live. So that just wasn’t in music, it was in life.”
This isn’t the first time Gilbert has publicly praised Urban. In an earlier interview, the father of three recalls the pivotal visit Urban gave to Gilbert, while Gilbert was receiving treatment at Cumberland Heights, a drug and alcohol rehab center in Nashville.
