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Keith Urban is said to be 'devastated' in Nashville and Sydney this month after reports claimed that his daughters with Nicole Kidman, Sunday Rose and Faith, have effectively cut off contact with him in the wake of the couple's split last year, leaving the country star feeling 'erased' from their lives.

The news came after 17-year-old Sunday spoke to Elle Australia and described her 'biggest inspiration' as her mother, Nicole Kidman, without mentioning Keith Urban at all. On its own, that omission could have passed as teenage shorthand. Instead, it has been seized on as a grim symbol of a deeper fracture inside one of Hollywood's most carefully managed modern families. Celebrity columnist Rob Shuter reported on his 'Naughty But Nice' Substack on Wednesday, 18 March that, according to one insider, Sunday's silence was no accident.


'The kids have essentially cut off contact with Keith,' the insider told Shuter, framing the interview not as a teenage oversight but as the visible tip of a long‑building family rift. 'This isn't just about a quote — it's been building for a while.'

Another source, speaking about Urban's reaction to seeing the interview in print, offered a blunter emotional translation. 'Seeing it in black and white like that really hurt. He feels erased.'

None of the parties involved has commented publicly. There has been no official statement from Keith Urban's representatives, Kidman's team, or the children's guardians beyond what has been reported, so all of these claims remain unverified and should be treated with caution.

Keith Urban, Custody Terms And A Fragile New Normal

For starters, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman ended their 19‑year marriage last year, quietly drawing a legal line under a union that had started in 2006 and survived rehab, awards seasons, and constant touring schedules. Both are 58. The split, while widely reported, was largely devoid of public mud‑slinging, which made it relatively unusual by Hollywood standards.

Privately, however, the aftermath appears to have been more bruising. The National Enquirer previously reported that Keith Urban has been trying to put more of his attention on Sunday and 15‑year‑old Faith since the divorce, leaning into his role as a separated father while continuing to tour.

According to a source who spoke to the tabloid, the couple's divorce agreement gives Keith Urban parenting time with the girls every other weekend. On paper, that looks like a familiar, if imperfect, compromise. In practice, the same source suggested, it is messier. 'When he's touring even that doesn't work,' they said, implying that Urban's long‑standing career rhythm may now be colliding head‑on with the fragile routine of shared custody.


Emotional Cost For Keith Urban After Nicole Kidman Split

Shuter's reporting suggests that what might look, from the outside, like a gradual cooling of contact feels, from Urban's side, more like an abrupt freeze. 'Right now, there's a real distance, and Keith doesn't know how to fix it,' one source told him.

The language offered up by these unnamed insiders is stark. 'He's putting on a brave face,' the same source added, 'but privately, he feels like he's lost his daughters.'

It is not hard to see why Sunday's Elle Australia remarks cut so sharply. At 17, praising your mother rather than your father is hardly a scandal. Yet, in a family already split, every public comment carries extra weight.


Nicole Kidman, an Oscar‑winning actor, and Keith Urban, an international touring musician, have spent decades curating their public narratives. Now, their teenage daughter is tentatively writing her own, and the person left out of her first draft happens to be the one who is on the road, rather than on the red carpet.

None of this means that Sunday and Faith have permanently turned their backs on their father. Adolescence, divorce, and a complicated travel schedule make for choppy emotional waters, and teenagers change course quickly. There is, at this stage, no court filing alleging parental alienation, no verified statement from the girls themselves, and no confirmation from either parent that contact has definitively been 'cut off.'

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