Keith City Shares How Nicole Kidman Helped Him By way of His Battle With Alcoholism

Throughout a latest interview with The Occasions, Keith City, 54, opened up about his battles with alcoholism and drug habit, his highway to restoration and the position his spouse Nicole Kidman performed in his journey to beat habit. In 1998, City first checked himself into rehab, after which once more, simply months after marrying Kidman, in 2006.

“I don’t speak quite a bit about it as a result of I really like my viewers having the ability to simply come and have a good time,” City mentioned in the course of the interview. “I’ve nothing in opposition to medication or alcohol. Everybody does what they need to do to have a good time. I simply realized I’m allergic to it. Somebody mentioned, ‘You’ve an allergy? What occurs once you drink?’ And I mentioned, ‘I get away in cuffs.’”

City famous that he has seen the long-term impression of rising up in an alcoholic family.

“My dad was an alcoholic, so I grew up in an alcoholic home and it took me a very long time to consider I used to be wired the identical,” City mentioned.

Kidman was the inspiration for his tune “Thank You” from his 2009 album Defying Gravity. The tune, which City wrote with Rick Nowels, consists of the lyrics, “I thanks for my coronary heart, I thanks for my life/ And I thank God for grace and mercy / And that you just grew to become my spouse.” He famous that his household was one of many causes he knew he needed to make a change.

“However I needed to discover a totally different method to be on the earth,” he added. “I’m glad it didn’t change something about my music. I wrote loads of hit songs whereas drunk. I wrote a lot sober. I really feel fortunate it hasn’t outlined my creativity.”

In June 2021, City and Kidman celebrated their fifteenth anniversary, with City sharing a photograph of the couple hugging one another in entrance of a Christmas tree. City’s caption of the photograph echoes the sentiment present in “Thank You.”

“My life began once you mentioned ‘I do’ 5,475 days in the past as we speak,” City captioned the photograph.

City has 21 Billboard Nation Airplay No. 1 hits to his credit score, in addition to 4 Grammy wins. His most up-to-date album, The Velocity of Now Half 1, was launched in 2020. He was additionally featured on Taylor’s Swift’s latest album, Fearless (Taylor’s Model) on the “From The Vault” monitor “That’s When.”