Home for Blake Shelton is no longer a place, but a person. The Grand Ole Opry member reveals how it is with he and his wife, Gwen Stefani, who now own homes in both Los Angeles and Oklahoma.
“She comes to Oklahoma, and it’s not like this now, but at first, she had to have felt like ‘Where am I? What is this place?’” Shelton tells WKML “This is not how she grew up, and the same goes for me. I’d go to LA, and it’s like, ‘What is this place? How do I fit in here?’ And I would still feel that way if she wasn’t there.”
“And I think the same thing with her for when she comes to Oklahoma,” he continues. “It’s just that’s what completes the journey for us. It’s just as long as we’re together, it really doesn’t matter.”
No one, including Shelton and Stefani, could have imagined when they met while they were both coaches on The Voice, that they would end up together. The two met in Season 7 in 2014, when they were both married to other people. But when both of their marriages unexpectedly ended at the same time, Shelton and Stefani first found solace in their shared pain, which became the unexpected beginning of their successful love story.
“If you would’ve told me the first season that we met that what was gonna happen, I would’ve been like, ‘No, we actually don’t even have anything to even talk about’… It’s crazy how things work out,” Shelton tells Entertainment Tonight.
When Shelton married Stefani, he also became a stepafther to her three sons, which makes their time together in Oklahoma even sweeter.
“I get to teach them the country, and I love that,” Shelton says. “Whether it’s music, whether it’s literally getting out, getting their hands in the dirt or being out on the ranch, seeing the animals, whatever, you know? I absolutely love being the person that gets to introduce them to that stuff.”
Shelton currently has a Top 10 hit at radio with “Texas.” The song is from his forthcoming, still-untitled new album, his first on BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville.
“It kind of walks a line that’s a little bit of a ‘Stranger In My House’ or something like that,” Shelton tells American Songwriter. “It’s kind of got this haunting thing about it, but you can also jam out and rock out to it at the same time.”
“Texas” set a new career record for Shelton when it was released, with the most first-week adds at radio ever in his career. Shelton will kick off his Friends and Heroes Tour on February 27, with his former touring partner, Trace Adkins, plus Craig Morgan, Deana Carter and Emily Ann Roberts. Find “Texas” and all of Shelton’s music and tour dates at BlakeShelton.com.