Keith Urban’s song “The Fighter” was once a declaration of love for his estranged wife, Nicole Kidman.
The track was featured on Urban’s 2016 album, Ripcord, as a duet with Carrie Underwood. The following year, Urban released “The Fighter” as a single. As the song jumped on the charts, Urban opened up about how Kidman inspired the track.
“It was just a very quick, quick song to write,” he told The Boot in March 2017. “Because I literally thought about Nic and I and our relationship in the beginning, and some of the things we had said all went into that song.”
While “The Fighter” became a staple in Urban’s setlist, things changed dramatically after Us Weekly confirmed that Kidman and Urban had split after nearly two decades of marriage. After Kidman filed for divorce from Urban in Septem