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Gwen Stefani Reveals She Once Tried to Stop Her Relationship with Blake Shelton
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have now been happily married for three years, but when their relationship first began, things were far from simple.
Both stars were coming out of high-profile divorces in 2015 — Stefani from Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, and Shelton from fellow country superstar Miranda Lambert. On top of that, both were in the public eye as coaches on The Voice.
Looking back, Stefani admits she initially tried to put a stop to their budding romance.
“We had just met and it was chaos,” she shared. “Both of our lives were in complete turmoil. Nothing could save us at that point. I remember thinking, ‘I can’t even talk to you — this is insane. I already have enough problems. This is not happening anymore.’”
But music, she says, is what ultimately brought them together. Shelton reached out to her in 2015, asking for help finishing a song he had been working on — what would later become their duet “Go Ahead and Break My Heart.”
“He sent it to me, and it was a half-written song,” Stefani recalled. “So I wrote him back the second verse — all over text. That was the first song we ever wrote together. We weren’t even in the same room, but we were writing to each other.”
For Stefani, songwriting has always been her creative lifeline.
“I think Blake really wanted to impress me,” she said. “He doesn’t write as much as he used to, but for me, writing is everything. That’s how I find purpose and fulfillment.”
The pair went public with their relationship later that year, got engaged in 2020, and tied the knot in 2021.
For Stefani, marriage has always been a deeply personal dream.
“Since I was a little girl, I wanted to be married, have love like my parents had, and have babies,” she said. “When my first marriage fell apart, that dream was crushed. But God putting Blake in my life was a miracle.”
Interestingly, Stefani also admitted that before joining The Voice in 2014, she had no idea who Shelton was. Yet just a year later, sparks flew, and by November 2015, the couple confirmed their romance publicly.
Nearly a decade later, the love story that almost didn’t happen has become one of country music’s most celebrated partnerships.
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