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Gwen Stefani recalls meeting husband Blake Shelton and telling him 'this is not happening'

Gwen Stefani has recalled how she tried to distance herself from now husband Blake Shelton when they first met.

The singer first met Blake in 2015 while they were working on The Voice as coaches.

At the time, they were both going through divorces; Gwen from Gavin Rossdale, and Blake from Miranda Lambert.

Now, the 55-year-old has told how she was reluctant to enter another relationship despite the immediate chemistry between them.

"We had just met, and it was chaos," she told People.

"Both of our lives were in complete turmoil, all over the ground. Nothing could save us at that point. There was a point where I was like, 'I can't even talk to you. This is insane. I already have enough problems. This is not happening anymore. We're not going to text or nothing.'"

However, Blake wasn't deterred and asked her to write a song with him.

"He sent it to me, and it was a half-written song," Gwen recalled. "He was like, 'Help me finish this.' So I wrote him the verse back - the second verse on the song - and it's just over text. That was our first song that we ever wrote together. We were never even in the same room, but we were writing a song to each other."

The song was Go Ahead and Break My Heart, a duet the pair ended up releasing together in 2016.

"I think he really wanted to impress me, because he doesn't really write songs as much as he used to," she said.

The pair have been together ever since, and were married in 2021.

"Something that I wanted since I was a little girl is to be married and have this love that I saw my parents have and have babies," she said.

"That dream was completely ruined; it was crushed, and I had to figure out how I was going to move forward and make a new dream," she admitted. "God putting Blake in my life was just that miracle."

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