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Gwen Stefani has had a roller coaster year, from filing for divorce from husbandGavin Rossdale to entering into a heated romance with Blake Shelton. The No Doubtsinger opened up in a new interview about her humiliating split and how she was “saved” by her countrybeau.
"LastFebruary – I think a lot of people know my life fell apart – my family fellapart, everything fell apart," she told NPR."[We were married] 14 [years]. Together 20. You just crumble, youknow?"
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The46-year-old, who filed for divorce last summer, admitted that she felt “embarrassed” after her marriage to Gavin ended. She said, "I was all the way down. And I just felt like, 'God I gotta turnthis around. I can't go down like this.'"
Since splitting from the English musician,Gwen has moved on to dating her fellow Voice judge Blake Shelton. Like theblonde beauty, Blake was also going through his own divorce from wife Miranda Lambert last year.
"It was a really superunexpected gift to find a friend, somebody who happened to be going through theexact same thing as me, literally mirroring my experience," Gwen told Refinery29."I don't think it's an accident that that happened. It saved me."
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Apart from the support of hercountry crooner boyfriend, the singer has also found comfort in musicfollowing her high-profiled split. “It was the only thing that felt good atall," she revealed. "That's what this whole record documents –working through it, having faith, believing in myself and wanting to dosomething about it."
The mom-of-three, whose new albumThis Is What the Truth Feels Like drops Friday, even has a song (Make Me Like You) about Blake. She previously said, “What’s so crazy is like, sometimes tragedy, if you reallyabsorb it, you can turn it into something beautiful. This whole album is reallyabout just trying to take something that was awful and just, I don’t know,healing from it and turning it into something beautiful.”