Gwen Stefani has revealed that finding love with country music star Blake Shelton "saved" her life following her split with her husband of 13 years, Gavin Rossdale.
The couple, who have three children together, announced they were ending their marriage last August.
According to reports the couple split after Stefani discovered that Rossdale was having an affair with their children's nanny.
Stefani first met Shelton a year earlier who was going through his own separation from country star Miranda Lambert) on the set of The Voice, where they were both coaches.
In November 2015 Stefani and Shelton publicly confirmed their budding romance.
With the imminent release of Stefani's new solo album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like, the No Doubt front woman has been talking candidly about her new relationship, describing it as a "gift".
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton
Speaking to online publication Refinery29 the I'm Just A Girl singer said: ""I think that when you go through what I went through, or what I’m still going through, you think you’re hopeless. You don’t know what’s going to happen. You panic.
"It was a really super-unexpected gift to find a friend, somebody who happened to be going through the exact same thing as me, literally mirroring my experience. I don’t think it’s an accident that that happened. It saved me."
Stefani also shared that Shelton was the inspiration behind the album
"I didn’t have any kind of musical direction for this album. Every song was written around emotions. Of course [our relationship] was an influence.
"Every song was written purely out of whatever my heart was going through at that moment. And we would create whatever music we needed to support that.
There was no, 'I want to make a reggae song or a hip-hop song.' It was all about, how do I get this out? How do I capture it? And how does it make me feel better?"
This Is What the Truth Feels Like is available to download from March 18.
