--- title: Gavin Rossdale Opens Up About Gwen Stefani Divorce description: Find out what Gavin Rossdale said about his divorce from ex-wife Gwen Stefani in a new interview with Fabulous magazine. canonical: https://time.com/4643226/gavin-rossdale-gwen-stefani-divorce-interview/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-23T15:04:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:29.137Z og:title: Gavin Rossdale Didn't Want to Divorce Gwen Stefani og:description: 'I still think she’s incredible' og:url: https://time.com/4643226/gavin-rossdale-gwen-stefani-divorce-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6587a3bd72d08fa2/6988b6c1428a9e0fffcd595a/gwen-stefani-gavin-rossdale.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4365 og:image:height: 2455 og:image:alt: The PEOPLE Magazine Awards - Backstage And Audience og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gavin Rossdale Didn't Want to Divorce Gwen Stefani twitter:description: 'I still think she’s incredible' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6587a3bd72d08fa2/6988b6c1428a9e0fffcd595a/gwen-stefani-gavin-rossdale.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Gavin Rossdale Didn't Want to Divorce Gwen Stefani > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Chris Polk/PMA2014/Getty Images for dcp) Chris Polk/PMA2014—Getty Images for dcp by [Stephanie Petit / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Stephanie Petit / People Contributor Jan 23, 2017 3:04 PM UTC [Gavin Rossdale](http://people.com/tag/gavin-rossdale/) and [Gwen Stefani](http://people.com/tag/gwen-stefani/) may have ended their [nearly 13-year marriage](http://people.com/celebrity/gwen-stefani-gavin-rossdale-divorce-couple-split-after-20-years-together/) in 2015, but the rocker still thinks his ex-wife is “incredible.” The 51-year-old opened up to [_Fabulous_](https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2662274/the-voice-uks-new-judge-gavin-rossdale-opens-up-about-his-worst-days-following-his-split-from-gwen-stefani-and-the-pressure-hes-under-from-his-kids-to-find-love-again/) magazine about his very publicized split, which included [rumors of Rossdale’s affair with the couple’s nanny](http://people.com/celebrity/gavin-rossdale-nanny-cheating-rumor-gwen-stefani-keep-the-kids-safe/), admitting he wasn’t happy about going through a divorce. “\[Divorce\] was completely opposite to what I wanted. Really not…but here we are,” Rossdale said. “Apart from death, I think divorce is one of the hardest, most painful things to go through.” Rossdale says that although many good things came out of their relationship, there are plenty of things he would have done differently looking back. “I know we all wish that, but we can’t, so I have to deal with reality,” he said. “You can’t not have regrets and be human at the same time.” The Bush musician continued, “We had 20 years together and that in itself is pretty incredible. It’s a lifetime. I still think she’s incredible. It was a lovely 20 years and we have three amazing children. There were a lot of positives, and with time they’ll become more and more obvious.” Perhaps the biggest positive was the duo’s three sons – Kingston, 10, Zuma, 8, and Apollo, 2. Rossdale says that he and the No Doubt singer remain committed to being amicable co-parents to their children. “The one thing – the only good thing, because everything else is not good – is we care about the children and it’s about them. So we do everything to make this life change as seamless as possible.” Stefani, who is now dating [Blake Shelton](http://people.com/tag/blake-shelton), previously shared in an [interview with_Glamour_ magazine](http://www.glamour.com/story/women-of-the-year-gwen-stefani)‘s December issue that she [felt like a “failure”](http://people.com/music/gwen-stefani-felt-like-failure-because-of-divorce-glamour/http://people.com/music/gwen-stefani-felt-like-failure-because-of-divorce-glamour/) for ending her marriage. “I don’t think you’ll talk to one person who didn’t make it in a marriage who’s not gonna feel that way,” she admits. “The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.” She continued, “I had to work really hard at marriage, all the time, like everybody, but ours was extra hard, when you add that we’re from different countries, both of us being in music, and celebrity,” she tells the magazine. “\[Marriage\] was the one thing I didn’t want to fail at.” _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/celebrity/gavin-rossdale-talks-gwen-stefani-divorce/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4643226/gavin-rossdale-gwen-stefani-divorce-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4643226/gavin-rossdale-gwen-stefani-divorce-interview/"},"headline":"Gavin Rossdale Didn't Want to Divorce Gwen Stefani","datePublished":"2017-01-23T15:04:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:29.137Z","description":"'I still think she’s incredible'","url":"https://time.com/4643226/gavin-rossdale-gwen-stefani-divorce-interview/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6587a3bd72d08fa2/6988b6c1428a9e0fffcd595a/gwen-stefani-gavin-rossdale.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Petit / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6587a3bd72d08fa2/6988b6c1428a9e0fffcd595a/gwen-stefani-gavin-rossdale.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The PEOPLE Magazine Awards - Backstage And Audience","caption":"The PEOPLE Magazine Awards - Backstage And Audience","creditText":"Chris Polk/PMA2014—Getty Images for dcp","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4643226/gavin-rossdale-gwen-stefani-divorce-interview/","name":"Gavin Rossdale Didn't Want to Divorce Gwen Stefani"}}]}] ```