Just four short months ago, Nicole Kidman confessed how "fortunate" she felt for her nearly two-decade-long marriage to Keith Urban and credited her late mother Janelle for showing her how to build "a long-lasting, successful relationship," RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The words Kidman, 58, penned in an op-ed for an Australian news outlet, have taken on a crushing new meaning following the news of the couple's separation after 19 years of marriage. Article continues below advertisement

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Less than a year after Janelle's death , her daughter reflected on the lessons she taught her in an op-ed for the Sydney Morning Herald in May.

She noted

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