Keith Urban has spoken about his sobriety journey again recently, where he goes into the final "fork in the road" he faced before leaving his addiction behind.
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The "Blue Ain't Your Color" hit maker sat down with Zane Lowe, where they spoke about his sobriety journey and the final hurdle he knew he was facing.
"All through the years of drinking and doing drugs and all the rest of it, I always had this very specific voice inside of me that goes, 'One day, you're gonna come to a crossroads or a fork in the road, and it'll be the final one,'" he explained.
"'You're either gonna choose to get out of this s--t or you're never gonna get out of it," Urban continued. "That day is gonna come and it won't be like well, if you mess it up this time, maybe next time. There won't be a next time. And you'll know when it comes.'"
Apparently, he kept thinking this way for years. He knew he wanted to be out of the vicious cycle of drug and alcohol abuse, but addiction isn't exactly an easy thing to kick.
And sure enough, he faced his fork in the road after his marriage to Nicole Kidman.
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Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman married in 2006. Not long after this, she called for an intervention.
"I knew that was it," Urban reflected. "I'm like, 'Oh, this is that fork in the road.'"
And thankfully, he took the right path, and has been sober ever since, 19 years later.
Urban continued, "I didn't come to America for that. I came to America to make music and record and tour, and grow as an artist and as a human being. I didn't come to America to end up in rehab and courthouses and s--t."
"That's not why I came here, so I'm like, 'What am I doing?'"
It took a "few shots," but Urban was able to rid himself of his addiction.
Keith Urban didn't go into details about the intervention or the immediate next steps, but we know when faced with the cliff's edge, he didn't keep walking.
