Keith Urban: 'Nicole saved me from drugs'

The Australian stars both appeared on Oprah Winfrey's couch for the interview.

Country singer Keith, 43, told the chat show queen for the first time that he ran into trouble just months after marrying Nicole, 43, in 2006.

But Keith said wife Nicole stood by him during his problems.

Nicole told Oprah, "I think marriage is about, every day, trying to make it better and working through things and when things are tough, saying, 'I'm going to come to you and talk,'

"We're just very tight, and we stay really tight."

Keith told Oprah that an addiction to alcohol and drugs including cocaine had taken over his life when Nicole stepped in.

"I had to make a decision which road I was going to take, once and for all," Keith said.

"I'd been at that crossroads before and always taken the wrong road.

"It was a huge hole in my life that was going to be filled by the right thing eventually, or it was always going to be filled by the wrong thing."

Keith said his wife Nicole and a few close friends staged at intervention for him.

"It was really a profound moment in so many ways," he said.