Keith City and Nicole Kidman have been married since 2006 and share two daughters collectively.
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Nation singer Keith City is opening up about his combat with drug and alcohol addictions — and the way he’s “fortunate” his profession remains to be intact.
The Australian nation singer first entered a Nashville rehab for remedy in 1998. Nearly a decade later, not lengthy after he married “Eyes Vast Shut” star Nicole Kidman in 2006, he spent one other few months on the Betty Ford Heart — at his spouse’s insistence.
“Everybody does what they wish to do to have a good time. I simply realized I’m allergic to [substances]. Somebody mentioned, ‘You could have an allergy? What occurs if you drink?’ And I mentioned, ‘I get away in cuffs,’ ” City, 54, mentioned in a profile for the Sunday Occasions.
“I needed to discover a completely different solution to be on the planet,” City mentioned about how his sobriety altered his life — and profession.
“I’m glad it didn’t change something about my music. I wrote loads of hit songs whereas drunk. I wrote lots sober,” he continued. “I really feel fortunate it hasn’t outlined my creativity.”
In 2016, City informed Rolling Stone that Kidman, 54 — with whom he has daughters Religion, 11, and Sunday, 13 — staged an intervention for him at one level to take care of his demons. Final September, he opened up additional in regards to the couple’s rocky begin following his nuptials.
“I precipitated the implosion of my contemporary marriage,” he informed the Australian model of the journal. “It survived, nevertheless it’s a miracle it did. I used to be spiritually awoken along with her. I take advantage of the expression ‘I used to be born into her,’ and that’s how I really feel. And for the primary time in my life, I may shake off the shackles of habit.”
City described his spouse’s encouragement to assist him again on the street to restoration in his 2009 music “Thank You,” the lyrics of which embody:
And I thanks for my coronary heart
I thanks for my life
And I thank God for grace and mercy
And that you simply turned my spouse
Within the new Occasions interview, he famous that his father — who died in 2015 — was an alcoholic and he “grew up in an alcoholic home and it took me a very long time to consider I used to be wired the identical.”
City additionally refrains from discussing his sobriety as a result of he desires his followers to get pleasure from themselves at his concert events.
“I don’t speak lots about it as a result of I really like my viewers with the ability to simply come and have a good time,” he added. “I’ve nothing towards medication or alcohol.”
Within the interview with the Aussie model of Rolling Stone final yr, City revealed it took him “a very long time” to know he had an issue.
“Took me a very long time to acknowledge my alcoholism. A very long time as a result of I didn’t drink like my dad, so I in contrast the whole lot to him. So it simply took a very long time for me. However I used to be in a position to lastly make the suitable alternative in my life that I want my dad would have made,” he mentioned.
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