<p id=”par-1_52″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/blake-shelton/?swcfpc=1″>Blake Shelton</a> and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/gwen-stefani/?swcfpc=1″>Gwen Stefani</a> began <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/celebrity-relationships/?swcfpc=1″>dating</a> as they navigated their respective divorces. They first looked to each other for support, and then began to develop romantic feelings. Stefani said that her feelings for Shelton sent her into a panic. She told him that they had to stop communicating with each other.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-gwen-stefani-told-blake-shelton-they-couldn-t-be-together”>Gwen Stefani told Blake Shelton they couldn’t be together</h2>
<p id=”par-2_17″>In 2015, Stefani and Gavin Rossdale ended their marriage. Their divorce sent her <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/gwen-stefani-reveals-gavin-rossdale-crushed-childhood-dreams-divorce.html/”>life into a spiral</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-3_25″>“It was the beginning of hell,” she once told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a16416/gwen-stefani-interview/” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Harper’s Bazaar</a>. “Like six, seven, eight months of torture, trying to figure out this big secret.”</p>
<p id=”par-4_43″>At the same time, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/blake-shelton-miranda-lambert-stand-sight-events-source-says.html/”>Shelton and Miranda Lambert were divorcing</a>. He and Stefani were coaches on <em>The Voice</em> at the time, and they leaned on one another through their heartbreak. Before long, their friendly relationship turned romantic. Stefani admitted this initially panicked her.</p>
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<p id=”par-5_30″>“We had just met, and it was chaos,” she told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://people.com/gwen-stefani-recalls-chaos-early-days-dating-blake-shelton-not-happening-8751595″ rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a>. “Both of our lives were in complete turmoil, all over the ground. Nothing could save us at that point.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_9″>She told Shelton that they needed to slow down.</p>
<p id=”par-7_34″>“There was a point where I was like, ‘I can’t even talk to you. This is insane. I already have enough problems. This is not happening anymore. We’re not going to text or nothing.’”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-he-won-her-over-with-a-song”>He won her over with a song</h2>
<p id=”par-8_29″>Shelton turned to music to win over Stefani. He began writing the song “Go Ahead and Break My Heart” and reached out to her about <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/blake-shelton-blushes-talking-love-song-wrote-gwen-stefani.html/”>helping him with it</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-9_61″>“I think he really wanted to impress me, because he doesn’t really write songs as much as he used to. And I love writing songs. That’s everything to me,” she said. “If I want to feel like I have any kind of purpose or any kind of value or anything, it’s about writing a song. That’s where I get my fulfillment.”</p>
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<p id=”par-10_14″>They didn’t work in the same room, but the collaboration brought them closer together.</p>
<p id=”par-11_67″>“He sent it to me, and it was a half-written song. He was like, ‘Help me finish this.’ So I wrote him the verse back — the second verse on the song — and it’s just over text,” she said. “That was our first song that we ever wrote together. We were never even in the same room, but we were writing a song to each other.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-blake-shelton-said-his-feelings-for-gwen-stefani-developed-through-their-conversations-nbsp”>Blake Shelton said his feelings for Gwen Stefani developed through their conversations </h2>
<p id=”par-12_40″>Shelton said that his feelings for Stefani steadily grew after he announced his divorce to the <em>Voice</em> coaches. They had a private conversation afterward, during which she <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/gwen-stefani-said-blake-sheltons-divorce-announcement-felt-gift.html/”>divulged her own marital problems</a>, and continued to check in on each other.</p>
<p id=”par-13_73″>“It went from that, to checking in on each other once a week through email — ‘This s*** 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,’” he told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/blake-shelton-billboard-cover-divorce-miranda-lambert-gwen-stefani-relationship-the-voice-if-im-honest-album-7453469/” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Billboard</a>. “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-14_5″>The couple married in 2021.</p>