Keith Urban talked ‘lonely and miserable’ life on the road in new interview ahead of Nicole Kidman split

A pre-recorded TV interview shows Keith Urban confessing to being “completely lonely and miserable” weeks before his marriage to Nicole Kidman ended.

Keith Urban shared an honest insight into his life in a pre-recorded interview before his high-profile spilt from wife Nicole Kidman.

In the very first episode of his new competition reality series, The Road, the country music star got candid in front of the cameras as he discussed being “completely lonely and miserable” while on tour and being away from his family.

“Where do we start? It’s a calling, and you’re going to do it or you’re not going to make it,” the 57-year-old explained in the debut episode, as per the Daily Mail.

Keith Urban addressed his “lonely and miserable” life on tour before his break-up from Nicole Kidman. Picture: CBS

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“When you wake up on a tour bus at 3:30 in the morning and you’re sick as a dog, you’re in the middle of nowhere and you’ve got to play your fifth show later that night, and you haven’t slept, and you miss your friends, and you’re missing your family, and you’re completely lonely and miserable and sick — and you say to yourself, ‘Why am I doing this?’”

“The only answer can be: Because this is what I’m born to do,” he continued.

Urban spoke about his struggles as a musician on his upcoming series, The Road, hosted by fellow country music star Blake Shelton.

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The series has yet to be given an Australian release date but will premiere in the US on CBS and Paramount+ on October 19. The reality series, hosted by Blake Shelton, follows 12 emerging country music stars competing as opening acts for Urban at various music venues across the US.

The winner wins a recording contract as well as $US250,000.

Urban’s candid comments about his life emerged just weeks after Kidman filed for divorce on September 30 after 19 years of marriage.

News broke of Urban’s separation from Kidman in September.

The pair has allegedly been living separately for a while.

According to sources close to the pair, their hectic work schedules – the country singer is on tour, and the actress has had back-to-back filming commitments – resulted in a “lack of intimacy” which ultimately fuelled the shock break-up.

“Keith never sees Nicole, either she is filming or he is on tour,” one source told the Daily Mail.

“There was a lot of love between the two … They been together for decades so there is a world which they can reconcile, but the way their pairing is now, they are not a couple.”

It was also reported that Urban was the one who initiated the split after feeling “unhappiness”, prompting him to “call her out”.

The exes share two daughters: Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14. Picture: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

“The intimacy isn’t there, they are just going through the motions [of being married]. If this separation gets them back together, that would be amazing, but Keith had to call her out that he isn’t happy,” the source told the Mail, with another insider telling The Times it was allegedly “in the presence of friends”.

However, it appears a reconciliation is not on the horizon as one day after their separation was made public – they reportedly split at the start of the US summer in June – Kidman pulled the trigger on their marriage and filed for divorce.

“Their lives were moving in different directions, and once he quietly set up his own place, it felt like the writing was on the wall,” a source told People of the couple, who are parents to Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.

Kidman has also filed to become the primary residential parent of their daughters, meaning she will have them for 306 days out of the year, while Urban will have them for 59 days.