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Gwen Stefani once again opened up about her divorce from Gavin Rossdale and her new relationship with Blake Shelton. In a recent interview with Refinery 29 to talk about her new album "This Is What the Truth Feels Like", which is due out on Friday, March 18, the "Make Me Like You" singer said that she's blessed to have Blake and that their relationship "saved" her from all the pain she had.

"I think that when you go through what I went through, or what I'm still going through, you think you're hopeless," Gwen said, referring to her marriage to Gavin, who allegedly had an affair with their former nanny Mindy Mann. "You don't know what's going to happen. You panic."

Fortunately, Gwen found a friend who appeared to have the same experience as her and it's her "The Voice" collaborator Blake, who was going through his divorce from Miranda Lambert at the time. "It was a really super-unexpected gift to find a friend, somebody who happened to be going through the exact same thing as me, literally mirroring my experience. I don't think it's an accident that that happened. It saved me," she said of Blake.

The 46-year-old songstress also talked about Blake's influence on her music career, saying that their relationship played a big role in creating the songs in her new album. "I didn't have any kind of musical direction for this album. Every song was written around emotions. Of course [our relationship] was an influence," Gwen shared.

The mother of three also said that all of the songs in the album were written spontaneously, depending on her mood. "Musically, no. Every song was written purely out of whatever my heart was going through at that moment," Gwen explained. "And we would create whatever music we needed to support that. There was no, 'I want to make a reggae song or a hip-hop song.' It was all about, how do I get this out? How do I capture it? And how does it make me feel better?"