{"id":86073,"date":"2022-04-20T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=86073"},"modified":"2022-04-20T05:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:49:33","slug":"keith-urban-reflects-on-15-years-of-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/04\/keith-urban-reflects-on-15-years-of-sobriety\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Reflects On 15 Years Of Sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Urban says he&#8217;s \u201clucky\u201d that his music and creativity remain unaffected by his sobriety now 15 years later.<\/p>\n<p>He told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/keith-urban-how-my-wife-nicole-kidman-saved-my-life-tjqhq5lm2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday Times<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m glad it didn\u2019t change anything about my music. I wrote plenty of hit songs while drunk. I wrote plenty sober. I feel lucky it hasn\u2019t defined my creativity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keith entered rehab for the second time in his life while newly married to Nicole Kidman at her insistence during an intervention.<\/p>\n<p>He ultimately realized he &#8220;had to find a different way to be in the world,&#8221; explaining,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I just realized I\u2019m allergic to (substances). Someone said, \u2018You have an allergy? What happens when you drink?\u2019 And I said, \u2018I break out in cuffs.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keith credits Nicole with helping him turn his life around.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was spiritually awoken with her. I use the expression \u2018I was born into her,\u2019 and that\u2019s how I feel. And for the first time in my life, I could shake off the shackles of addiction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Urban says he&#8217;s \u201clucky\u201d that his music and creativity remain unaffected by his sobriety now 15 years later.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":86074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[485,1213,5232],"class_list":["post-86073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-keith-urban","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-sobriety"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 09:52:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/04\/keith-urban-reflects-on-15-years-of-sobriety\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}