Gwen Stefani is one of the most important singers in the history of current music. Over the years, she became a benchmark for how to successfully combine professional and personal life, after 13 years of marriage to guitarist Gavin Rossdale. However, while she called her relationship “the best achievement of her life,” her husband was unfaithful with her three children’s nanny, news that devastated the singer due to the way she found out. of what was happening.
At the time that Gwen and Gavin met, the singer had just ended her relationship with Tony Kanal, with whom she had been dating for seven years, so she still felt very confused about having lost the love of whom one day she thought she had met. He would become her husband and father of her children, but that was not an impediment for Rossdale, who was automatically attracted to the “Don’t speak” singer.
The crush occurred when Bush, Gavin’s band, opened the concert that No Doubt offered in London; The musician asked the singer for her phone number and, when he visited New Orleans, he organized a party with the sole purpose of seeing her again.
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From there they began a six-year courtship, in which most of the time they communicated by phone, because he lived in London and she in the United States, until in 2002, they got married and the English musician moved. with Gwen to Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
There were two ceremonies, one Catholic in an old cathedral in London and another, less traditional, in which all the friends of the newlyweds attended.
Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani were married for 13 years. Photo: Special
And although their relationship was going from strength to strength, in 2004, the news that Rossdale had a 15-year-old daughter, the product of a love affair he had in 1989, destabilized his marriage. However, the singer who was embarking on her career as a soloist, decided to stay by the musician’s side and support him during his time as her father.
In 2006, for their part, they would welcome their first child together; Kingston James (17 years old) and, later, Zuma Nesta (15 years old) and Apollo Bowie Flynn (10 years old).
The relationship passed without further public details and, in fact, in 2013, months before Stefani found out about her husband’s infidelity, she told “Marie Claire” magazine that her greatest achievement, up to that moment, was the marriage she had had built with Rossdale:
My greatest achievement, so far, is my marriage because it is difficult, everyone knows it is difficult and it is something that I always wanted to do successfully, it was a dream of mine, I like the official and family nature of everything, having the same name and make decisions together,” he highlighted.
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Shortly after, when the couple announced their divorce due to “irreconcilable differences,” “E!” published a story where she announced that Gwen had found out that Gavin had been unfaithful to her for three years with Mindy Mann, the nanny of her three children.
In fact, during the years that included the secret romance, Stefani was pregnant with her third child, little Apollo; When she found out about her infidelity it had only been 10 months since she had given birth.
Gwen found out about the deception thanks to another babysitter who realized what was happening. Later, the singer read messages that Mindy had sent to her husband, where they explicitly talk about sexual encounters, she also saw naked photographs that the two sent each other, on the iPad used by the family, which was linked to the musician’s phone.
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After learning of the infidelity, “E!” He assured that the “Hollaback girl” singer was “completely devastated”, “mortified, livid and ashamed”, so she asked for a divorce from Gavin who, for months, denied the romance, ensuring that it had just been a flirtation. , but over time he recognized his mistake.
Stefani later met country singer Blake Shelton whom she married in 2021.
A few weeks ago, the musician – who has also already resumed a love life – said that he would like to have a closer relationship with his ex-wife in order to benefit his children, since he never wanted them to live in a fractured family unit.
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