Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have separated after nearly 20 years together.
Urban, 57, has moved out of their family home in Nashville and into his own place in the Tennessee city, sources told TMZ. Variety confirmed the separation news.
The couple’s two children, Sunday and Faith, are living with Kidman, according to the outlet. One source told TMZ that Kidman, 58, has been “holding the family together through this difficult time since Keith has been gone.”
Rumors of a split between Kidman and Urban have been swirling all summer. Gossip journalist Rob Shuter reported in mid-July that the two stars were spending time apart. That followed an Australian radio interview that Urban left after being asked for his feelings on Kidman filming intimate scenes in movies.
Additionally, Kidman applied to become a resident of Portugal earlier this summer, and rumors flew when Urban’s name was not included on the application. At the time, reports indicated that was because Urban was busy touring and couldn’t attend the required appointments.
Though Kidman and Urban are both Australian, they didn’t meet until 2005 at a gala in Los Angeles. But 18 months after the encounter, they married at a candlelit ceremony in Sydney. In the two decades since, they’ve become a red carpet staple and frequently gushed about each other in interviews.
“She’s my best friend. I’ve never had anybody on the planet that knows me as well as she does,” Urban once told People magazine. “I would love to have been worthy of somebody like Nic, but I was a long way from it when we met. Somehow we just found there was love there, real love. I literally just feel like the luckiest guy on the planet.”
