She did find love after divorce, but it wasn’t easy.
Gwen Stefani got candid about the story behind her new duet with boyfriend Blake Shelton, admitting that she came from a dark place while writing the lyrics.
The couple performed “Go Ahead and Break My Heart” on The Voice, then a few days later at an iHeartRadio concert in LA, and though they look totally in love on stage, it took awhile to get there.
“The story is that he [Shelton] had written this song and sent it to me on my phone,” Stefani told friend Chelsea Handler on her new Netflix talk Show.
“He’s like ‘I wrote this song’ and I was like ‘Whoa what if I don’t like it, huge turn off!’
“I listened to it and thought ‘Oh my god I love this,"” she told Handler.
“He said ‘Write the rest of it."”
Stefani ended up completing the song, but said that if this were a short time ago, she wouldn’t have been able to get creative.
“There was a time when I was really insecure about writing.
“There was such a drought of time when I was so insecure,” Stefani admitted.
“I think when you have a really long year you start to compete with your own self and get insecure about I did that but how did I do that?
Shelton had similar fears, telling People “about some serious insecurities that we had when we first started down this road with each other.
“We both had trust issues. We were getting over it, but we wrote this song about it, and it’s perfect.”
There’s a rumor going around the Shelton and Stefani plan to announce an engagement on The Voice.
I’m about 99% certain the tabloids made that story up because A) it’s been a slow news week B) They’ve been wrong about engagement/pregnancy news for so long, that at some point, they will be right.
