Urban Emerges from Rehab, Ready for Road
After three months and 12 steps, Keith Urban is out of rehab.
Nicole Kidman's country-singing spouse has completed a stint at the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs, California, his publicist, Paul Freundlich, confirmed Tuesday to E! News. Urban voluntarily checked himself into the facility last October to treat alcohol abuse.
No further details were disclosed, and it's not known exactly when Urban left the facility. Earlier Tuesday he issued a press release touting an upcoming European tour, and People magazine spotted the Grammy winner alongside Kidman at the Creative Artists Agency's private Golden Globes after-party Monday night.
Kidman and Urban have remained in close contact since he began treatment.
In addition to her frequent visits to the facility, the couple spent the holidays together in Sydney. Sightings of the A-listers on their Down Under home turf spawned speculation that Urban had already completed his stint in rehab, but his rep shot down such reports.
Freundlich said at the time that Urban, who previously sought treatment for cocaine abuse, took a brief leave for the holidays and would resume treatment upon returning to the U.S.
Now that he's completed rehab, Urban is planning to hit the road.
Exact dates for the Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy World Tour are still being finalized, but he will tune up with a handful of intimate club shows in the U.K. and Germany in April, before launching his arena run in Australia in May. The chart topper is aiming to bring the road show to the U.S. and Canada in June.
Urban's Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released Nov. 7 and, despite his inability to make the promotional rounds in support of his fifth studio album, still managed to take the honky-tonk world by storm, reaching number one on Billboard's country album charts.
He is expected to jet off to Germany on Thursday for a promotional TV appearance in support of the album before returning to the States in time for the Grammy Awards on Feb. 11. Urban is up for Best Male Country Vocal Performance of the Year for his single "Once in a Lifetime."





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