Moment Keith Urban exploded at radio station over Nicole Kidman sex scene question before shock split

Signs of strain in the marriage between Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman were apparent as early as this past July.

DailyMail.com confirmed Monday that the celebrity couple are separating after 19 years of marriage.

Now, Urban’s reaction to a racy question from a radio show has resurfaced which indicates that maybe he was struggling to deal with aspects of his wife’s Hollywood career.

The country music hitmaker called into the Mix102.3 Adelaide radio show Hayley & Max in the Morning in Australia on July 1 to promote a series of upcoming shows.

The interview began innocuously enough with Urban saying he always enjoyed playing in Adelaide. But it got uncomfortable when the Grammy-winning singer, 57, took part in a radio game titled Wall of Truth.

The host quizzed Urban about his wife appearing in ‘love scenes’ causing him to abruptly quit the interviews he was doing via Zoom.

Daily Mail has reached out to Mix102.3 Adelaide for further comment on the story. 

One of the hosts specifically referenced actor Zac Efron, 37, who appeared in an intimate scene opposite Kidman, 58, in the 2024 Netflix film A Family Affair.

‘What does Keith Urban think when he sees his beautiful wife with beautiful younger men like Zac Efron, having these beautiful love scenes?’ host Max Burford asked Urban.

Urban did not reply and it was revealed he had gone.

‘I think his team hung up on us because they didn’t want us to ask that question,’ a program producer is heard explaining.

Burford asked: ‘Does Keith Urban hate us? Do we have beef with Keith Urban?’

The show’s Hayley Pearson said, ‘He hates us – I knew that was going to happen.’ 

Pearson said that she thought the line of questioning might have been too direct.

‘I’ve had this feeling… that they don’t like these personal questions at all.’

Pearson added: ‘He doesn’t like the personal stuff… he doesn’t like talking about his wife… it’s private.”

An insider later told People that Urban had nothing to do with the disconnection and that he ‘did not hang up, period.’

‘He doesn’t host his Zoom interviews. This is a complete nothingburger.’

The Australian actress and Urban were last seen together publicly in June this year, when they were pictured attending a FIFA World Cup match in Nashville, Tennessee.

The country star has been away for much of the year on his High and Alive World Tour. 

He is due to perform in Hershey, Pennsylvania on Thursday.

Kidman and the children, meanwhile, have remained in Nashville, where the couple own a $4million compound.

TMZ reported Monday that ‘Keith has acquired his own residence in Nashville and has moved out of their family home.’

Over the summer, the actress and their kids stayed in England while she filmed the sequel to her 1998 movie Practical Magic. She was paying a reported £65,000 ($87,000) each month to rent a luxurious Hampstead mansion once owned by pop star Boy George.

While the London move was for work, it certainly raised eyebrows back in Kidman’s native Australia.

‘[Kidman and Urban] do make an effort to speak every day when they’re apart, but it is shocking how much time they’ve spent apart since Nicole’s mother died last September,’ an insider told local magazine Woman’s Day earlier this month. ‘It’s like they both went their separate ways.’

Urban and Kidman are parents to daughters Sunday, 16, and Faith, 14.