{"id":281386,"date":"2019-10-09T11:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1081233"},"modified":"2019-10-09T11:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:46:12","slug":"gwen-stefani-says-best-friend-blake-shelton-has-helped-her-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/gwen-stefani-says-best-friend-blake-shelton-has-helped-her-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Stefani Says &#8220;Best Friend&#8221; Blake Shelton Has Helped Her &#8220;Heal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.144409937888\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201999\/rs_634x862-191009093647-634-Gwen-Stefani-Shape-Cover-KB-10-9.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Gwen Stefani, Shape Cover 2019\" alt=\"Gwen Stefani, Shape Cover 2019\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">PHOTOGRAPHED BY James Macari<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.569903948773\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gwen_stefani\">Gwen Stefani<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/blake_shelton\">Blake Shelton<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;live a simple life.<\/p>\n<p>In a cover interview for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shape.com\/celebrities\/interviews\/gwen-stefani-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shape<\/a><\/em>, Stefani&nbsp;explained&nbsp;how the country singer helped her evolve through life&#8217;s not-so-simple moments, like adjusting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/966244\/gwen-stefani-and-gavin-rossdale-in-mediation-over-custody-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">life after her divorce<\/a>&nbsp;from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gavin_rossdale\">Gavin Rossdale<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel as if I spent the last four years healing,&#8221; she told the outlet. &#8220;You know, trying to build my life again. Having a best friend like Blake to help me do that has been one of the greatest gifts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That rebuilt life is split&nbsp;between living in L.A. and Shelton&#8217;s Oklahoma ranch\u2014somewhere&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em> coach (who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1080678\/nick-jonas-is-joining-the-voice-as-a-coach-in-spring-2020?query=nick%20jonas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">temporarily rotating off the show<\/a> after season 17)&nbsp;never thought she&#8217;d end up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m an unusual product of an ordinary California family,&#8221; Stefani shared. &#8220;My parents met in high school, my mom never worked, and we went to church on Sundays. Now I get to travel the world. And spending time in the middle of America [on Blake&#8217;s ranch]\u2014that&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21\">\n<p>&#8220;The way we live at the ranch is really simple,&#8221; the mom of <strong>Kingston<\/strong>, 13, <strong>Zuma<\/strong>, 11, and <strong>Apollo<\/strong>, 5, said. &#8220;There are watermelons that Blake planted and all my wild flowers. It&#8217;s a nice contrast to L.A., although I do keep 20 chickens in the backyard here at home too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another staple of the Stefani\/Shelton household is tasty snacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a feeder,&#8221; she said of her love, referencing a box of chocolates on her nightstand. &#8220;He&#8217;ll go, &#8216;Here, I bought you some candy.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.173439048563\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201937\/rs_634x1024-190407174714-634-blake-shelton-gwen-stefani-acm-awards-me-04719.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, Academy of Country Music Awards 2019\" alt=\"Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, Academy of Country Music Awards 2019\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Photo By Jeff Kravitz\/ACMA2019\/FilmMagic for ACM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28.0625\">\n<p>The couple is currently filming season 17 of&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em>,&nbsp;and Stefani has her ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/947784\/gwen-stefani-gets-love-from-blake-shelton-at-las-vegas-residency-debut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Las Vegas residency<\/a> on Wednesdays and weekends.&nbsp;Still, with so much to do, Stefani revealed she prefers to have more downtime than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Balance is the hardest thing, but it&#8217;s also the most important,&#8221; she shared. &#8220;Being with my family, having time with Blake where we just watch movies. It seems like, with your career, you have to keep swimming, keep moving, or else you&#8217;re going to look back and go, &#8216;Shoot, it&#8217;s over.&#8217; I don&#8217;t like feeling like that. I want to do creative things when I want, and I want to stop chasing all the time. It&#8217;s hard, but I&#8217;m really enjoying being in the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She will be off of the ranch and shining the spotlight on her career at the&nbsp;2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.eonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E! People&#8217;s Choice Awards<\/a>, however, as the star is this year&#8217;s recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/peoples_choice_awards\/news\/1080499\/gwen-stefani-to-receive-the-fashion-icon-award-at-the-2019-e-people-s-choice-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fashion Icon Award<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping Shelton will have another box of chocolates on-hand to congratulate her.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch the 2019 People&#8217;s Choice Awards Sunday, Nov. 10 at 9 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1081233\/gwen-stefani-says-best-friend-blake-shelton-has-helped-her-heal?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTOGRAPHED BY James Macari Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton&nbsp;live a simple life. In a cover interview for Shape, Stefani&nbsp;explained&nbsp;how the country singer helped her evolve through life&#8217;s not-so-simple moments, like adjusting to life after her divorce&nbsp;from Gavin Rossdale. &#8220;I feel as if I spent the last four years healing,&#8221; she told the outlet. &#8220;You know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-18 10:33:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}