Keith Urban has posted a candid video on his website regarding his recent stay in the Betty Ford Clinic in California to receive help for his alcohol addiction.

In the video, he explains that no one thing sparked his decision to get help last October: “There was no big, cataclysmic event that happened right before I went in. [Just] a lot of small things that were happening in my life, and a lot of small moments that were starting to accumulate that were telling me very loud and clear that I was a long way from my program of recovery, and they were making my life unmanageable.”

“It was far from an ideal time to go into treatment. While I was in there… I had my birthday… my record was released, I missed Thanksgiving, and all the holidays.”

“Thirty days [stay] became 60, 60 days became 90, and, with each week that passed, I found myself really learning to surrender.”

He ended the video with a ‘thank you’ to his friends and family, particularly his wife Nicole Kidman: “Nicole stayed extraordinarily strong, and loving, and my friends and family were there. It’s just been really overwhelming.”

“We’ve gone through a lot in the last three months and I think it’s been the strength of our marriage [that] has carried both of us through.”

Keith was released from the center last week.