Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale is reflecting on his divorce from fellow recording artist Gwen Stefani, saying he mostly feels badly about how it’s affected his children.
The 58-year-old rocker discussed his feelings during a recent episode of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’ podcast “Amy and T.J,” per Entertainment Weekly.
“My parents were both married three times each — so very colorful background,” Rossdale said. “And so I never thought I’d ever get divorced. So if there’s a simple shame in my life, it’s that.”
Despite not being happy about having a divorce in his past, the lead singer also said be believes there are “no accidents” in life.
“Life just unfolds how it should,” he continued. “And whether that’s comfortable or uncomfortable, it just is what it is. It’s an easier philosophy to live by ‘cause it means you don’t sit in regret.”
Rossdale married Stefani in 2002. Stefani filed for divorce in 2015, citing irreconcilable differences. It’s widely believed that Rossdale had an affair with the couple’s nanny, Mindy Mann, but the rock star has never confirmed that information publicly.
The former couple shares three children together: Kingston, 17, Zuma, 15, and Apollo, 10.
“It’d be nice if there was sort of more connection with the person who made them with me,” Rossdale said, referring to his ex. “So, I feel bad for my kids, that’s it. That’s the overriding thing.”
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“The rest of it is, like, it comes with the territory,” he said during the podcast interview. “And there’s been sort of other things….If I could be the most honest, that would be the most profound thing of, like, wish I could have just figured out a way to not have that in their lives.”
Rossdale related the situation back to his own childhood. “It wasn’t fun for me to be from a broken home. I think in a way it gave me a career. So I don’t mind because I turned it around to sort of an interesting career path. But it can be quite debilitating for kids.”
The singer also referenced Stefani’s relationship with country singer Blake Shelton. The two were married in 2021.
“I go to a lot of events where there’s the other team, so to speak,” he said, “and I just feel really proud of myself in my consistency as a father. I know in my heart that I’m super consistent. Yeah, of course, like everyone I’m flawed as hell and things didn’t go as perfect as I would have liked.”
“It’s not my place to saying anything,” Rossdale added. “I’m handcuffed because I would never want to overly say anything negative about their mom or stuff like that. It’s just not right.”