Gwen Stefani reveals why she was initially hesitant to date Blake Shelton

Gwen Stefani reflected on her early days of dating Blake Shelton.

In an interview with People magazine on Monday, the 48-year-old pop star, who first met Blake in 2015, revealed that she was hesitant to dive into another relationship at the time because of her “devastating” divorce from her ex-husband, Rossdale.

"We had just met, and it was chaos. Both of our lives were in complete turmoil, all over the ground. Nothing could save us at that point,” said Gwen.

She further said, “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.”

"I think he really wanted to impress me, because he doesn't really write songs as much as he used to. And I love writing songs. That's everything to me,” shared the Just a Girl hitmaker.

“If I want to feel like I have any kind of purpose or any kind of value or anything, it's about writing a song,” she added.

At the time, Blake was reportedly writing what later became Go Forward and Break My Heart - a country duet he and Gwen released on May 9, 2016.

"He sent it to me, and it was a half-written song. 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," she said. 

"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 Cool songstress told the publication.

For those unversed, Gwen and Blake first got together in 2015 while working as coaches on the singing show The Voice.