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Time to face the music.
Keith Urban, 57, opened up about his “lonely and miserable” life touring just months before it was revealed he and Nicole Kidman, 58, had split after 19 years of marriage.
In the upcoming first episode of his new competition show, “The Road,” the country superstar got candid about being away from his home and family for such long periods of time.
“Where do we start? It’s a calling, and you’re going to do it or you’re not going to make it,” Urban explained in the premiere episode, according to a sneak peek obtained by Daily Mail.
He continued, “When you wake up on a tour bus at 3:30 in the morning and you’re sick as a dog, you’re in the middle of nowhere and you’ve got to play your fifth show later that night, and you haven’t slept, and you miss your friends, and you’re missing your family, and you’re completely lonely and miserable and sick, and you say to yourself: ‘Why am I doing this?’”
“The only answer can be: because this is what I’m born to do,” Urban added before introducing the new CBS show’s contestants. “We’re going to find out who’s made for that stuff.”
“The Road,” which premieres on CBS on Sunday, Oct. 19, follows 12 aspiring musicians as they compete to open for Urban at music venues across the country.
Described as a new music competition, Gretchen Wilson serves as the tour manager for the series. Urban is joined by executive producers Blake Shelton and Taylor Sheridan throughout the 10-episode first season.
The show was filmed from March 2 to April 2, according to TV Insider, meaning Urban’s remarks about being “lonely and miserable” came months before the news of his and Kidman’s split was first made public.
The Post confirmed Kidman and Urban’s split on Sept. 29, one day before the “Babygirl” actress filed for divorce from the country crooner in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sept. 30.
Kidman cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split, per court documents obtained by The Post, and she listed the pair’s date of separation as “date of filing.”
Insiders claimed that the former couple, who share daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14, had been living apart “since the beginning of summer.”
“They had been quietly separated for a while now but needed time to figure out if they were going to actually divorce,” a source told Us Weekly. “She had faith they could work it out.”
“They are moving in two different directions, and their worlds are not overlapping as much as they once did,” they added. “The distance between them had grown more obvious recently.”
Other sources close to the pair suggested that Urban was already seeing another woman, which some fans speculated to be his 25-year-old guitarist, Maggie Baugh.
Kidman, who recently finished filming “Practical Magic 2” in England last month, opened up about the “painful” and “devastating” life changes she’s endured during an interview with Harper’s Bazaar published Thursday, Oct. 9.
“There’s something to knowing that no matter how painful, or how difficult, or how devastating something is, there is a way through,” she told the outlet in the wake of her split from the Grammy winner.
“You’re going to have to feel it. You’re not going to be able to numb it. You are going to have to feel it, and it’s going to feel insurmountable at times,” Kidman continued. “You’re going to feel like you’re broken, but if you move gently and slowly – and it can take an enormous amount of time – it does pass.”
The “Perfect Couple” star appeared to hint at her and Urban’s marriage troubles again in a recent interview with Vogue.
Although the piece was published on Oct. 8, it was conducted weeks before Kidman filed for divorce from the “Blue Ain’t Your Color” singer.
“I put it in my work,” she told the outlet at the time. “That’s the beauty of what I do. There’s a place for some of this to explode, implode, process, discover.”
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