Keith Urban’s Ex Once Predicted He & Nicole Kidman Wouldn’t ‘Last Very Long’—See His Dating History

Nicole Kidman (2005-Present)

Urban has been married to Nicole Kidman since 2006. The two met in 2005, and though Kidman was instantly charmed, Urban didn’t call her back for months. “I had such a crush on him and he wasn’t interested in me. It’s true!” Kidman told Ellen DeGeneres in 2017. “He didn’t call me for four months.”

But when he did call, things moved fast and the two got engaged and married in 2006, with the ceremony taking place at St. Patrick’s Estate in Sydney, Australia, where the two are from. And though the couple has had its ups and downs, like Urban’s struggles with alcohol abuse, they went on to not just get through those and welcome two daughters together, they now seem stronger than ever.

Urban gushed about his relationship to CBS News in 2016, saying, “Meeting [Nicole] and getting married wasn’t life-changing, it was life-beginning. It was literally, like, ‘Okay, life starts.” Kidman, meanwhile, told CBS Mornings in 2022, “I met him later in life and it’s been the best thing that’s ever happened to me. That man is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

Before dating and marrying Urban, Kidman was famously married to actor Tom Cruise—who after his divorce from Kidman went on to marry Katie Holmes, though that relationship ended in divorce too.

Niki Taylor (2002-2004)

Urban dated supermodel Niki Taylor in the early 2000s, and things were pretty serious for the two. Or, at least, they were serious enough to live together, get matching tattoos, and for Taylor to appear in Urban’s music video for “Somebody Like You.” But things reportedly didn’t work out because their schedules just never aligned. “His career got really busy, I got really busy, and we never saw each other,” Taylor told People after they split, adding, “We’re still friends, and I’m so happy for him and Nicole.”

The tattoos, which read “Amor vincit omnia,” or “love conquers all” in Latin were covered up by both parties and everyone moved on.

Laura Sigler (1992-2002)

Urban and Sigler dated on and off for almost ten years, with the pair even getting engaged at the end of that, in 2001. By 2002, however, the relationship was over and Sigler has since gone on record to indicate Urban’s substance abuse had a lot to do with their breakup.

In a 2005 interview with Today, she said, “There were a lot of lows with the drugs. I don’t have any dark past — he was probably the darkest part, but I’m on my own now and I’m happy about that.”

Urban himself talked about his struggles with drugs and alcohol in a 2022 interview with The Times, crediting his wife Nicole Kidman with helping him get sober. “My dad was an alcoholic, so I grew up in an alcoholic house and it took me a long time to believe I was wired the same,” he shared. “Someone said … ‘What happens when you drink?’ And I said, ‘I break out in cuffs.'”

Sigler wasn’t very sure the relationship between Urban and Kidman would last, telling The Sun in 2005. “Nicole and Keith might date for a while — but it won’t last very long. I don’t know her but I know him very well.”