Country music hit-maker Keith Urban has always been open with fans in regards to his past battle with addiction. In an interview with Australian morning show, Today Extra, Keith offered up some great advice and even directed some of it towards Demi Lovato, who suffered a drug overdose in late July.
Though the “Coming Home” singer doesn’t know Demi personally, he told the outlet that she should keep good people around her and work to find “a willingness to want to live a different way if that’s what she wants to do. It’s all up to her.”
Keith, now sober for over a decade, opened up to Rolling Stone about his addiction in 2016. Throughout the interview he revealed his inability to stop throwing back prescription drugs and alcohol. The country artist remembers accepting and hoping that he wouldn’t make it much longer. “I’d go to sleep, wake up a couple hours later, go at it again, drinking to take the edge off. I remember thinking, ‘I’m probably not going to make it until tomorrow,’” Urban recalled. “And then I thought, ‘F**k it, I don’t care. It’ll be a relief to not have to. I’ll take an Ambien and at some point I’ll pass.”
Thankfully, just four months after he married actress Nicole Kidman, she decided it was time that he reached out for professional help. Keith checked himself into the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs, California back in 2007 and has stayed sober ever since.
Grateful for his wife’s intervention, Keith told People in 2007, “to see that kind of love in action, that’s very moving and deeply inspiring and just makes me want to be a better man.”
Hopefully Keith’s wise words will reach Demi and others facing the same challenges with addiction. Be sure to catch this inspirational star out on the road!
Graffiti U World Tour Schedule
Sat Aug 11 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
Sun Aug 12 Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
Wed Aug 15 Rogers, AR Walmart AMP*
Fri Aug 17 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
Sat Aug 18 Chicago, IL Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sun Aug 19 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Fri Aug 24 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
Sat Aug 25 Orange Beach, AL The Wharf Amphitheater
Sun Aug 26 Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
Fri Sept 7 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Sat Sept 8 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Fri Sept 14 Ottawa, ON Canadian Tire Centre
Sat Sept 15 London, ON Budweiser Gardens
Wed Sept 19 Winnipeg, MB Bell MTS Place
Fri Sept 21 Saskatoon, SK SaskTel Centre
Sat Sept 22 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place
Sun Sept 23 Calgary, AB ScotiaBank Saddledome
Tue Sept 25 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
Thu Sept 27 Eugene, OR Matthew Knight Arena
Fri Sept 28 Boise, ID Taco Bell Arena
Sat Sept 29 Missoula, MT Adams Center
Thu Oct 4 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
Fri Oct 5 Laughlin, NV Laughlin Event Center
Fri Oct 12 Peoria, IL Peoria Civic Center
Sat Oct 13 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
Sun Oct 14 Grand Forks, ND Ralph Engelstad Arena
Thu Oct 18 Toledo, OH Huntington Center
Fri Oct 19 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
Sat Oct 20 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
Wed Oct 24 Youngstown, OH Covelli Centre
Thu Oct 25 Hershey, PA Giant Center
Sat Oct 27 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
Sun Oct 28 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena
Thu Nov 1 Little Rock, AR Verizon Arena
Fri Nov 2 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
Sat Nov 3 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Australian Dates
JANUARY 23, 2019 – NEWCASTLE, NEWCASTLE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
JANUARY 25, 2019 – SYDNEY, QUDOS BANK ARENA
JANUARY 26, 2019 – SYDNEY, QUDOS BANK ARENA
JANUARY 27, 2019 – CANBERRA, GIO STADIUM
JANUARY 31, 2019 – BRISBANE, ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
FEBRUARY 2, 2019 – BRISBANE, ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
FEBRUARY 5, 2019 – MELBOURNE, ROD LAVER ARENA
