Gwen Stefani Talks Blake Shelton Divorce Rumors
Gwen Stefani talks Blake Shelton divorce rumors in a new interview with Nylon magazine.
Gwen said, “When you’re in love and have truly aligned values, nobody can get to us. You can say whatever you want to say about our relationship — I mean, a week ago, we were getting divorced again or something. It’s just lies. The truth is the truth, and we know what that is.”
“Getting Paranoid”
Stefani also talked about the couple’s new single, “Purple Irises,” and she wrote the song about insecurities in love. She said she had been going through those times “where you’re questioning ‘Oh my gosh, am I just getting older?'” She said she was in that phase of the relationship with Blake and “getting paranoid.”
Stefani noted that in her relationship with Shelton, even though she knows the truth of what’s happening today, she still “creates drama” in her mind about “insecurities” and “what might happen.”
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Blake also spoke with the magazine and said, “It’s an insecurity we both have.” He added that these are conversations the couple have with each other. Things like, “Are you still going to love me when I’m old?”
Shelton just recently wrapped his “Back To The Honk Tonk Tour” for the spring. I’ve talked to Blake many times through the years about his concerts and what he brings to fans each night on the road. Just a few months after winning the CMA’s Entertainer of the Year in 2012, he told me about the pressure he felt to up the ante on his show after winning the big award.
His Setlist
He told me at the time, “The only thing I’ve really done is try to put together a cool setlist. It’s fun now putting together a set list because it’s neat to be in a place where it’s like, ‘Man, I can’t do all these singles; it would take too long.’ To have that luxury and to be that lucky is unbelievable to me because the first ten years of touring, it was like, ‘Well, we’ll do ‘All My Exes Live in Texas’ and ‘Friends in Low Places,’ and that will get the crowd going till I get to one of my songs.”
He added, “You know you’re trying to fill up your set with whatever. And now I have a full set of just hits.”
Blake performed a concert in the summer of 2012 at the Country Thunder Festival.
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There Must Be Comedy
Blake said his fan base expects a little more than just hearing his songs at his show. He offered, “I think people come to my shows to hear as much comedy as they do music, which I don’t know. I’m not really good at that stuff, but for some reason, they expect that from me, so I have to go off on some rants. And there has to be a little banter up there, or I think the crowd feels like they got robbed a little bit, so I try to keep that in there as much as I can.”
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