How Blake Shelton Won Gwen Stefani’s Heart After She Almost Rejected Him

Gwen Stefani didn’t think she was ready for a relationship in the immediate years after her split from Gavin Rossdale. She had met her now-husband Blake Shelton while filming The Voice, and she admitted to pushing him away and nearly rejecting him for good.

“We had just met, and it was chaos,” the “Hollaback Girl” singer told PEOPLE. “Both of our lives were in complete turmoil, all over the ground. Nothing could save us at that point. 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.'”