Gwen Stefani Opens Up About Gavin Rossdale’s Cheating Ways, Finding Love With Blake Shelton

Gwen Stefani will always remember the day she learned about her husband’s affair.

“It was the beginning of hell,” Stefani explained in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar. After discovering that her husband, Gavin Rossdale, slept with their children’s nanny, CNN reports that Stefani moved out and stayed with a girlfriend.

“My dreams were shattered… All I wanted my whole life was to have babies, be married, like what my parents have.”

Instead, Stefani divorced Rossdale last summer and now shares custody of her three kids, Kingston (10), Zuma (7), and Apollo (2).

Despite knowing that the marriage was over, Stefani kept the divorce a secret. However, she started to come to terms with her split after Shelton opened up about his divorce from Miranda Lambert while filming for The Voice.

“There I was with my big secret, right? And that’s when Blake was like, ‘Everybody, before we go out there, I want to let everyone know that by the time this airs, I will be divorced,'” Stefani shared. “[I felt] exposed somehow, you know? But it was like being handed this gift of a friend who was going through the exact same thing at the exact same time.”

“Everybody knows what happened to me,” Stefani said. “I got a divorce. It’s the worst thing that can happen to me besides death. My dreams are shattered, and I feel so embarrassed about what happened.”

For Stefani, working alongside someone who was experiencing the same heartbreak turned things around. Once the divorce papers were drawn in October, Shelton and Stefani started their heated romance.

“And then it was just like everything flipped,” she stated. “It went from horrible to, like, hopeful and, like, ‘Wow, God, you just don’t know what’s gonna happen next.'”

Although Gwen Stefani has experienced a roller coaster of emotions this past year, she is grateful with how everything has turned out.

“I’m at a certain time in my life where I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to do,” she noted. “Every day is art, you know? Some days are really bad, and some days are so good.”

Meanwhile, ET Online reports that Stefani is currently on tour promoting her newest album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like. Stefani’s first stop is in Mansfield, Massachusetts on July 12.

Before Stefani heads out across the country, she is spending as much time with her sons as possible.

“#vaca before tour #thisiswhatthetruthfeelsliketour2016 Gx,” she wrote alongside a photo of Zuma on Instagram.

Stefani then shared an image on Instagram of Apollo kissing her on the cheek.

Stefani also spent time with her oldest boy, Kingston, back in May. The duo spent a day fishing and riding dune buggies before hopping in a helicopter to see Shelton perform in concert.

“It was so insane because not only did my family break up, but then my kids are taken away like half the time, so that was really like, ‘What?! What did I do?'” she shared.

So far, Stefani has managed to work through her messy divorce without adding to the drama. Clearly, her relationship with Shelton has helped her work through some of these hardships, along with making new music.

“I had spent a lot of years not being confident about my songwriting. But I know that’s all I had left, and that was my gift,” Stefani explained. “I had read somewhere if you don’t have gratitude and confidence in what you’ve been given, you’re nowhere.”

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