Nicole Kidman files for divorce from Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage

Nicole Kidman has revenge for divorcement from Keith Urban aft 19 years of marriage, bringing a astonishing extremity to a agelong and seemingly successful national that brought together 2 superstars from nan worlds of movies and music.

The 58-year-old Oscar-winning character petitioned connected Tuesday to extremity her matrimony to nan 57-year-old Grammy-winning state vocalist successful a Nashville court. The documents authorities nan mates has undergone "marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences."

Kidman and Urban, 2 of nan biggest stars to travel retired of Australia successful caller decades, person been reddish carpet fixtures passim their two-decade relationship, pinch Urban joining his woman astatine nan Oscars and Kidman attending euphony events for illustration nan Academy of Country Music Awards.

The filings see a matrimony dissolution and childcare scheme agreed connected by nan mates and submitted for a judge's approval.

"The mother and begetter will behave pinch each different and each kid truthful arsenic to supply a loving, stable, accordant and nurturing narration pinch nan kid moreover though they are divorced," says nan imperishable parenting plan, utilizing connection communal successful nan state's divorces.

"They will not speak severely of each different aliases nan members of nan family of nan different parent. They will promote each kid to proceed to emotion nan different genitor and beryllium comfortable successful some families."

The scheme asks that Kidman beryllium nan superior residential genitor to nan couple's 2 daughters, ages 17 and 14, having them for 306 days per twelvemonth pinch Urban taking them for nan different 59.

The girls person lived successful Nashville each their lives, and nan documents springiness nary denotation that will change.

The matrimony dissolution scheme lays retired a astir adjacent section of associated assets, pinch each keeping each nan assets that are successful their ain name, including nan copyrights and royalties for their creator work.

The elaborate agreements suggests that nan divorcement had been successful nan useful for good complete a period astatine nan least. Urban signed nan parenting scheme connected August 29, Kidman connected September 6.

It will return astatine slightest 90 days for nan divorcement to go last nether Tennessee law.

Representatives for Kidman and Urban did not respond to emailed requests for remark connected Tuesday.

Both raised successful Australia, Kidman and Urban met successful 2005 astatine a Los Angeles arena honouring Australians and were joined successful Sydney nan pursuing year.

The matrimony was nan first for Urban and nan 2nd for Kidman, who was joined to Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001. Kidman besides has 2 older children pinch Cruise.

The mates had publically but lovingly described immoderate marital difficulties, but location were still fewer if immoderate signs they were headed for divorce. Media reports of their separation came conscionable a time earlier nan divorcement filing.

Last twelvemonth astatine nan premiere of nan Netflix bid The Perfect Couple, Kidman told The Associated Press nan word didn't use to her and Urban.

"You're heading for problem if you see yourselves nan cleanable couple," she said. "I'm not a believer successful perfect."

A fewer months earlier, Urban paid tribute to Kidman, and brought her to tears, erstwhile she received nan AFI Life Achievement Award.

Urban said she showed him "what emotion successful action really looks like" erstwhile his constituent maltreatment problems emerged almost instantly aft they wed successful 2006.

"Four months into our marriage, I'm successful rehab for 3 months," Urban said. "Nic pushed done each antagonistic voice, I'm judge moreover immoderate of her own, and she chose love. And present we are 18 years later."

Kidman's movie roles person included Days of Thunder, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge and The Hours, for which she won an Academy Award for playing writer Virginia Woolf.

She has much precocious worked successful television, including nan bid Nine Perfect Strangers and Big Little Lies, for which she won Emmys arsenic some character and producer.

Urban has been a awesome state prima since nan 1990s, pinch hits including Somebody Like You and Blue Ain't Your Color. He has won 4 Grammy Awards and much than a twelve ACM Awards.

Their divided was first reported by TMZ.