Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have been going their separate ways for eight years. The singer rarely spoke about marriage or separation. Now in an interview she emphasizes how difficult the time after the divorce was for her.
Since the end of 2015, Blake Shelton, 47, has officially been the man on Gwen Stefani’s, 53, side. In July 2021, they tied the knot at the country musician’s ranch in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. The singer was previously in a relationship with “Bush” frontman Gavin Rossdale, 57, for 20 years. The mother of three apparently has no fond memories of the separation and the time that followed.
Gwen Stefani: “My life has fallen apart”
Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale met and fell in love in 1995 and said “I do” in both London and Los Angeles in 2002. But after two decades together and three children Kingston, 17, Zuma, 15, and Apollo, 9, The music stars announced their breakup in 2015, and the divorce was final a year later. “Everyone knows that my life fell apart at some point. It was terrible,” says the “Hollaback Girl” interpreter now in reference to her broken marriage.
“There are so many people out there who have been through the same thing. When that happened, I literally had to start over. It was a restart of my life,” she continued. And everything soon changed when Blake Shelton came into her life.
Blake Shelton “changed her life”
Stefani didn’t see that Blake Shelton would blow her away like that. “It was an incredible gift to experience that kind of love for the first time,” she says of the singer, whom she first met on the set of “The Voice” in 2014. “He changed my life. When I met Blake, I immediately felt at home and thought, ‘Oh, this is where I belong, with this man.'”
The 47-year-old is also a wonderful stepfather to her children. They spend a lot of time together as a family on his farm in Oklahoma to escape the hustle and bustle of the big city. The “No Doubt” singer is now even into gardening, something she could never have imagined before. But she has finally found peace with her new life, emphasizes Gwen Stefani.
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