Gwen Stefani was caught off guard during a Tuesday morning interview on NBC's "Today" with her "Voice" co-stars Pharrell Williams, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine, reported Us Weekly. When host Matt Lauer asked Stefani if her new single "Used to Love You" is about her recent divorce from Gavin Rossdale, Stefani quickly recovered from her initial shock and responded like a pro.
"Your personal life has also been in the headlines, fans are looking at this and are they misinterpreting something here or is it all right there in front of us in terms of the meaning of the song?" Lauer asked Stefani of her recently released breakup song.
The 46-year-old No Doubt front woman made a slew of horrified-looking faces and stammered on her words as she tried to think of a way to respond, but Williams jumped in and offered words of encouragement.
"But that's why you have this platform right now," he told her.
"Okay," she said. "What I'll say about that is that I've never put a record out where I'm actually going through things in real time. Like, the 'Tragic Kingdom,' I wrote that over a three-year period and then it came out, and it was like two years on tour and it was like this long, drawn out thing. This is like, I wrote that song, like, a couple of weeks ago. It was like all very real."
Stefani's divorce from Rossdale was finalized this week after they spent 20 years as a couple, as previously reported by HNGN. The news comes just two months after they announced the split.
"It's just nice to do music and have that support from everybody," continued Stefani. "I don't know these people, but for whatever, I feel their energy and their love coming back at me and that's really comforting."
Watch the full "Today" show interview below.
