Keith City praised Nicole Kidman for sticking by him throughout a tumultuous time of their marriage only one 12 months earlier than the pair known as it quits.
City, 57, gave a heartfelt speech honoring his spouse on the forty ninth AFI Life Achievement Award Gala in April 2024, recalling how he prompted issues within the relationship amid his dependancy struggles after they tied the knot.
“We acquired married in June 2006 and barely 4 months into our marriage, my addictions … that I’d finished actually nothing about, blew our marriage to smithereens,” City revealed onstage in Los Angeles final 12 months, per Individuals. “4 months into a wedding, I’m in rehab for 3 months. I had no thought what was going to occur to us … and if you wish to see what love in motion actually seems like, give {that a} whirl.”
He added, “Nic pushed by means of each destructive voice, I’m positive even a few of her personal and he or she selected love. And right here we’re tonight, 18 years later.”
Kidman, 58, who was AFI’s visitor of honor that evening, wept as City spoke. She and her husband introduced their teen daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Religion Margaret, 14, to the tribute.
“That’s the factor about Nic … she loves life,” City gushed on the time. “I’ve really by no means met anybody who has such a ardour for being alive. She is aware of the significance of expressing emotions, as properly.”
He famous, “I wasn’t raised like this in any respect, so our ladies are very fortunate to be studying from you, child. I’m studying to.”
A supply confirmed to Us Weekly on Monday, September 29, that City and Nicole had separated after almost 20 years of marriage. The couple’s romance started in 2005 when City caught Kidman’s eye throughout a gala in L.A.
Nicole Kidman and Keith City are each natives of the land down underneath, however the couple met and fell in love on the opposite aspect of the world. Kidman and City first crossed paths on the G’Day USA Gala — an occasion honoring Australians in Los Angeles — in 2005. Kidman was instantly smitten with […]
They later wed in Sydney, Australia, one 12 months after their preliminary encounter. They welcomed daughter Sunday Rose in 2008 and Religion by way of surrogate two years later. (Kidman, 58, can also be mother to daughter Isabella and son Connor, whom she adopted with ex-husband Tom Cruise.)
The exes have been final noticed smiling subsequent to at least one one other at a FIFA Membership World Cup 2025 sport in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 20. Kidman celebrated their anniversary by way of Instagram that very same month.
The Oscar winner beforehand opened up about her partnership with City in an interview for the September 2021 subject of Harper’s Bazaar, revealing, “We’re at all times working by means of stuff, nevertheless it’s very a lot love-based, so there’s an unlimited quantity of give and take. I need him to have the most effective life he can have, and he responds the identical method.”
