Gavin Rossdale Calls Gwen Stefani Divorce His 'Clearest, Simplest Shame': 'I Feel Bad For My Kids'

Gavin Rossdale got vulnerable about his divorce from Gwen Stefani while speaking to Amy Robach and TJ Holmes. Amy and TJ podcast on Thursday (May 21).

Without naming her directly, the 58-year-old rocker opened up about Stefani while hooking up with the ex Good morning America anchors — whose respective divorces from their ex-partners and subsequent romance turned into big feed heading in 2023 — beyond the public relationship drama.

“My plainest, plainest shame,” he began. “I never thought I would ever get divorced. Sometimes I wish, when you see the children, there is loss. It would be nice if there was more to do with the person who made them with me.”

Rossdale and the No Doubt frontwoman married in 2002 after six years of dating, but parted ways in 2015. The couple have three children — 17-year-old Kingston, 15-year-old Zuma and 10-year-old Apollo. .

Stefani has since remarried Blake Shelton, whom she met The voiceand Rossdale is now dating musician Xhoana.

“I feel bad for my kids,” Rossdale continued on the podcast. “I wish I could have found a way for them not to have this in their lives. It wasn't fun for me to be from a broken home… It can be pretty draining for kids. The main thing is that you don't want to disappoint your children.”

The musician also added: “I would never want to say anything too negative about their mom… It's not right.”

The “Love Remains The Same” singer – whose band will celebrate its 30th anniversary by embarking on a 32-date North American tour in July – opened up about his upbringing with Stefani last year. “I think you can go one of two ways,” he revealed. “You can either do everything together and really co-parent and see how that goes, or you can just parent. And I think we're just parents.”

“We're really different people,” he added at the time. “I don't think there's a lot of similarity in the way we raise them, but I think it gives them an incredible perspective to then choose which pieces of those two lives they want to inherit and move forward with and which part of themselves they're going to they come out of the whole process.”

Listen to Rossdale open up about his and Stefani's divorce below.