Keeping quiet about the dissolution of her marriage was torturous for Gwen Stefani.
Stefani, 46, and Gavin Rossdale, 50, called it quits after 13 years of marriage last summer, but it was in February 2015 when Stefani first confronted the Bush rocker about his alleged affair with their children’s nanny.
“It was the beginning of hell. Like six, seven, eight months of torture, trying to figure out this big secret,” the rocker said in the August issue of Harper’s Bazaar.
She looked to songwriting and spirituality to help her through the trying time.
“What happened was praying,” she said. “That’s my childhood, that’s how I was raised. And I think I strayed from that. But you know when it gets that bad, you just get desperate? You’re on your knees. You’re like, ‘What do I do?’ You can’t even go to your parents and ask them what to do.”
A higher power granted the mom of three much-deserved solace in the form of “Voice” co-star Blake Shelton. The pair confirmed their unexpected romance in November.
“And then it was just like everything flipped,” Stefani explained. “It went from horrible to, like hopeful, and like, ‘Wow, God, you just don’t know what’s gonna happen next.'”