Does an authentic video on TikTok show Keith Urban saying that "Nicole cheated"? No, that's not true: The video has been edited with a fake voice. The original video interview was published by Variety in 2024 and featured Urban trying to guess which of his songs certain lyrics came from. The topic of the reason for the marriage breakup was not discussed. An audio analysis tool "Hiya" determined with 98 percent confidence that the voice in the video is AI-generated text-to-speech, and the TikTok creator who posted the video has labeled it "AI-generated".
The video (archived here) was published on TikTok by @gossipgoddess6 on Sept. 30, 2025. It is captioned:
Keith Urban has responded for the first time to the real reason behind his divorce from Nicole Kidman after 19 years of love.#usa #foryou #celebrity #fyp #keithurban #nicolekidman
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of tiktok.com/@gossipgoddess6/video/7555835876484386079.)
Under the caption it is labeled:
original sound - gossipgoddess6
Creator labeled as AI-generated
Reverse image search with Google Lens turned up a short reel (archived here) posted on the Variety Instagram account on Oct. 15, 2024. Lead Stories then located a 9 minute 44-second video (archived here) on the Variety YouTube channel titled, "Does Keith Urban Remember Lyrics to His Most Famous Songs?". In this Oct. 11, 2024 video (pictured below) Urban is wearing a striped shirt and black jacket seated in front of a plain dark blue backdrop. A search of the video's transcript does not find the words, "Nicole" or "cheated".
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of youtu.be/C10siUEEwQk?si=pikeppLf6l-LLFsy.)
Lead Stories took a sample of the TikTok video's audio track and uploaded it to the InVID Hiya voice cloning detection tool for analysis (pictured below). The tool determined it was voice cloning with a 98% confidence rating.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of InVID chrome extension.)
