Everything Gwen Stefani Has Said About Getting Over Her Divorce from Gavin Rossdale

"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. [Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at."

"My dreams were shattered. All I wanted my whole life was to have babies, be married, like what my parents have."

"I didn't want anyone to know what was going on with me … I had this huge weight on me and nobody but my parents and obviously everybody involved knew."

"[It] was just unbelievable that God would put us in a position to have each other at that moment, in the same exact moment."

"At that time everything was like I had no skin, it was so raw. Nobody knew what was happening, and I had this big secret."

"During that time period, I felt like I was down all the way, like, you don't go down lower than that. It was rock bottom. I was so embarrassed, you know what I mean?"

"How do I save myself? What am I going to do? How do I not go down like this?"

"It was so insane because not only did my family break up, but then my kids are taken away like half the time, so that was really like, 'What?! What did I do?'"

"Of course you go through the 'Why me?' and feel sorry for yourself. But then I was like, 'No, this happened to me already and I made something good out of it,' and that was Tragic Kingdom."

"It's because I have children [Kingston, 10, Zuma, 7, and Apollo, 2]. As a famous person, you start to think, 'I can't say all that because I'll embarrass them or hurt them in some way.' And especially now because they can see everything and hear everything. But I've done nothing I'm ashamed of … Well, we all have a few things we're ashamed of."

"It was like being handed this gift of a friend who was going through the exact same thing at the exact same time. And then everything flipped. It went from horrible to, like, hopeful and like, 'Wow, God, you just don't know what's gonna happen next.' "