Keith Urban raised eyebrows when he recently changed the lyrics of a Nicole Kidman-inspired song to nod to up-and-coming country star Maggie Baugh, with whom he was on tour this summer, amid the Oscar winner’s divorce filing.
While performing 2016’s “The Fighter” alongside each other, the 57-year-old Grammy winner sang, “When they’re tryna get to you, Maggie, I’ll be your guitar player,” according to a concert clip Baugh shared on Instagram.
“Did he just say that?” reads the 25-year-old utility player’s edited caption.
Originally, the lyric goes, “When they’re tryna get to you, baby, I’ll be the fighter.”
“[Kidman’s] female and tender, and I want that tenderness to not have to get hardened to the world,” Urban told Billboard of the song in 2017. “That’s my job as her husband, to put myself around her so she can remain that way. And that’s really the chorus of ‘The Fighter.’”
While it’s unclear whether Urban and Baugh’s dynamic is anything more than professional or friendly, news broke Tuesday that Kidman, 58, had filed for divorce from Urban after 19 years of marriage. She cited “irreconcilable differences.”
“All signs point to the fact Keith is with another woman,” sources connected to Kidman told TMZ ahead of the divorce news, which was less shocking than word of their separation the day prior.
A source told People that Urban’s friends considered the separation “kind of inevitable” and that it “really hasn’t been a secret.”
The “Big Little Lies” actress, who tied the knot with Urban in June 2006, was seen wearing her wedding band on Sept. 25, though they’ve reportedly been living apart “since the beginning of the summer.”
Kidman and Urban will continue to coparent, though she is looking to remain the “primary residential parent” for daughters Sunday, 17, and Margaret, 16.
While Kidman reportedly filed out of the blue Tuesday, a “Marital Dissolution Agreement” had already been signed by Urban’s notary last month, and hers on Sept. 6, per TMZ.
