<p id=”par-1_33″>Before <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/blake-shelton/”>Blake Shelton</a> settled <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/blake-shelton-still-gets-blown-away-by-gwen-stefani-when-they-make-music-together.html/”>down with Gwen Stefani</a>, he famously dated and married singer Miranda Lambert. Lambert and Shelton’s marriage didn’t go the distance, however, and their divorce took both a physical and mental toll on Shelton.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-blake-shelton-didn-t-want-to-exist-after-his-divorce-from-miranda-lambert”>Blake Shelton didn’t want to exist after his divorce from Miranda Lambert</h2>
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<p id=”par-2_38″>Shelton was very open about his heartache after his divorce <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/miranda-lambert-opens-divorce-blake-shelton-not-lie-music.html/”>from fellow singer Miranda Lambert</a>. The pair enjoyed four years of marriage together before their divorce in 2015. Shelton described the divorce as his lowest period where he found himself caught in a limbo.</p>
<p id=”par-3_28″>“This time last year, there was no light at the end of the tunnel for me personally. There was a point there where I thought I didn’t even want to exist anymore,” Shelton once told <em>People </em>(via <a href=”https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/blake-shelton-wished-could-coma-184526723.html”>Yahoo</a>).</p>
<p id=”par-4_3″>Shelton also added,</p>
<p id=”par-5_17″>“I told people I wished I could go into a coma and wake up a year from now.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_22″>The mental stress from the divorce led to some pretty dramatic physical changes. Shelton found himself losing weight during the whole process. </p>
<p id=”par-7_46″>“I just think, not the actual break-up part, but just the whole stress of getting through all of that is just weird,” Shelton said on <em>America’s Morning Show with Blair Garner</em> (via <a href=”https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/blake-shelton-wished-could-coma-184526723.html”>Yahoo</a>). “No I am doing great, but it’s just I wasn’t eating as much I guess. I wasn’t like going to the gym, just stay as busy as you can to keep your mind off anything.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_11″>One of Shelton’s reps noted at the time that he was doing the two things that he couldn’t stand.</p>
<p id=”par-9_4″>“Diet and exercise,” he said.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-how-blake-shelton-s-divorce-with-miranda-lambert-led-him-to-gwen-stefani”>How Blake Shelton’s divorce with Miranda Lambert led him to Gwen Stefani</h2>
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<p id=”par-10_43″>Shelton and his wife Stefani actually started bonding after the country singer’s divorce from Lambert. Before that, the pair were simply co-workers and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-did-blake-shelton-and-gwen-stefani-meet.html/”>acquaintances on <em>The Voice</em></a>. According to Shelton’s interview with Billboard, Shelton told the other <em>Voice </em>coaches about his divorce from Lambert early. This was partially due to Shelton not wanting Lambert to be referred to as “Blake’s wife.”</p>
<p id=”par-11_10″>Afterwards, Stefani surprised Shelton with her reaction to his news.</p>
<p id=”par-12_29″>“I won’t forget that day,” he said. “I looked over at Gwen — who I didn’t really know — and she had these huge tears in her eyes. I thought, ‘Wow, she feels super bad for me!’”</p>
<p id=”par-13_24″>Stefani would eventually ask to speak to Shelton personally about his situation. What the singer didn’t know was that this conversation would eventually lead to a marriage between the two.</p>
<p id=”par-14_97″>“I thought it was going to be another one of those things-are-going-to-be-OK talks,” he recalled. “She didn’t tell me much, because we didn’t know each other at the time, but she said, ‘I’m going through something very similar to what you’re going through. I understand. And I hate it.’ That’s kind of how our friendship and bond started, that day. It went from that, to checking in on each other once a week through email — ‘This shit happened to me, what happened to you?’ — to maybe three times a week, then every day, to ‘Hey, here’s my phone number if you ever want to text.’ Next thing I know, I wake up and she’s all I care about, and I’m wondering if she feels the same about me.”</p>
<p id=”par-15_13″>Shelton felt that Stefani was the one who ended up saving his life.</p>
<p id=”par-16_20″>“Who else on earth could understand going through a <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-voice-star-gwen-stefani-admitted-make-gavin-rossdale-like.html/”>high-profile divorce from another musician</a>? You can’t even imagine the similarities in our divorces,” he said.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-blake-shelton-channeled-his-heartache-through-his-music”>Blake Shelton channeled his heartache through his music</h2>
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<p id=”par-17_28″>As is the case with most artists, Shelton decided to address his heartbreak through music. He even asserted that his tenth album, <em>If I’m Honest</em>, provided a lot of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-complete-timeline-of-blake-shelton-and-miranda-lamberts-marriage-and-bitter-divorce.html/”>details regarding his divorce</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-18_27″>“Maybe not specifics, but you can get a general idea about it. It <em>is m</em>y divorce record, but maybe even more than that, it’s my happy, falling-in-love record too,” Shelton said.</p>