Blake Shelton Gave Gwen Stefani ‘Hope and Made Life Fun Again’ (Excl.)

In his new song “Somebody Else’s,” Gwen Stefani sings about leaving an ex, and it’s not hard to tell that it’s about the first husband Gavin Rossdale. “I don’t know what a heart like mine was doing in a love like this / I don’t know what a woman like me was doing with a man like you,” sings Gwen, who split from rocker Bush, 58. , in 2015 amid a nanny cheating scandal after nearly 13 years of marriage and 20 years as a couple. “But now I’ve got such a true love,” she continues, before bluntly declaring, “Now that I’ve found the real thing / You don’t compare.”

His “real thing” – his whole – is Blake Shelton. Gwen has a lot to say about her past and current spouses Ram. Debuting on November 15, it marks his first solo pop album since 2016 This is what the truth feels likewhich he wrote in the wake of his divorce. “While Gwen paints a brutally honest picture of how toxic her relationship with Gav was, she has a lot more to say about Blake and how finding true love with him saved her,” a source explains exclusively. Life and styleand noted that the married couple, who duet on “Purple Irises” on their upcoming album, celebrated their third wedding anniversary in July. “She has been telling friends that falling in love with Blake at a time when she was so vulnerable changed everything. It gave her confidence and hope and made life fun again.”

HEALING JOURNEY

The 55-year-old pop star has grown up a lot since the last time she made a record about heartbreak. After she and Blake, 48, unexpectedly fell in love while working as trainers The Voice and navigating the breakups of 2015: Blake got divorced fellow country music star Miranda Lambert40 Years That Summer: Gwen had a lot to figure out, especially when trying to raise children Kingston18, Zuma, 16, and Apollo, 10, with his ex. “Eight years probably feels like a long time to a lot of people,” Gwen told Rolling Stone in September about the gap between her Top 40 radio projects (though she did release a Christmas album in 2017). “But for me, it was eight years of healing, eight years of transition.”

He’s done a lot of soul searching away from the chaos of LA at the Blake Ranch in Oklahoma. The “Rock Steady” singer admitted she was a fish out of water at first. Now, however, “it feels like home”, confirms the source. “Gwen says she and Blake live an easy, happy life in Oklahoma when they have so much fun gardening together.”

In April, Blake explained how his wife “has an incredible sense for planting things — how to grow them and, once they grow, how to grow them.” Although she prefers to farm on a large scale, “like corn or beans, acres at a time,” he explained, “she concentrates more on patches here and there and ends up growing things a little better than I do.” Gwen, he added, even “has her own tractor now.”

THE MISSING PIECE

The one thing that could make life sweeter? “Having a child with Blake,” says the source. “He fully stepped in as a stepfather to his children and loves them as his own. And from the beginning, Blake assured Gwen that she would be happy whether they were co-parents or not.

How Life and style has previously reported, they faced a harrowing IVF journey that ultimately didn’t work out in Hollywood. They love the peace they have there.”

The self-proclaimed “makeup girl” has also become a true farm girl. Even though she and Blake are “so opposite in so many ways,” Gwen recently said, “it feels so fruitless to us,” but Gwen told friends she still dreams of having a girl,” says the source. The adoption, surrogacy and egg donation are all options the couple could explore.For now, however, Gwen has her hands full with her children, dogs and a sick kitten they named Corn Shelton, who she and Blake was fostered and adopted in September.

Once broken, Gwen is now filled with gratitude for everything she has: her children, her family, her career, and the love of a good man. “The thing about Blake is you never go a day without laughing,” Gwen shared on the Oct. 2 episode of Jennifer Hudson‘s eponymous talk show, recalling what the country star still does that reminds him why she fell in love with him. “Which is, it doesn’t even matter, like what’s going on. The guy has so much patience and so much kindness in his heart. He just makes you happier every day.”