It's been about eight months since Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale ended their 13-year marriage, but she's been standing strong ever since.
Stefani has admitted in the past that she was embarrassed following the divorce, as Rossdale was having an affair with their former nanny Mindy Mann, but now that she's happy and in love with Blake Shelton, she made sure her latest album perfectly reflected all her feelings. Instead of letting the divorce negatively affect her songs, she used it to help her write the now popular album, and even wrote a few songs about her new man in the process.
"I felt like I was so... I was so kind of... I felt like... I can't even find the words," she said on "Good Morning America" Monday. "Oh, my God. I was embarrassed. I felt like, 'Wow, I can't go down. This is not who I am. I'm not going to fail.' I had to make something good out of it. So I tried to write because I know that that was my gift. And I was like, 'I'm going to do this. I'm going to make this into music.'"
She and Shelton started darting shortly after her divorce, as well as his divorce from Miranda Lambert. While this was a difficult time for her, she's just happy she had the new album "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" as a distraction to help her get through the tougher times.
"I was just, literally, trying to get up in the morning," Stefani said. "I just want to write a record, and I don't care about anything else except for getting this out and healing and being honest and real and truthful. I don't care what style it is. Or being on the radio or charts, anything. Like why would that matter to me at this point? Nothing matters except trying not to die."
Just last month, she revealed that she has quite the story to tell about what led to her divorce, but she doesn't plan on sharing those details just yet.
"My life was, literally, blown up into my face," she said at the time. "If I could, I would just tell you everything, and you would just be in shock. It's a really good, juicy story."
As for her third studio album, which is her first solo project since "The Sweet Escape" in 2006, she's just glad she was able to return to the studio during a time like this.
"I have to make music out of this," she explained. "That's what God wants for me."
