Gwen Stefani confesses regret over working with No Doubt after having kids
Gwen Stefani and No Doubt may notably be reuniting at Coachella this weekend, but there was a time when the singer says she should have made a Sweet Escape from the band.
On the eve of the rock group's first performance together since 2015, its frontwoman admitted in a cover interview with Nylon that she should have just been with her three children instead of focusing on her career.
The 54-year-old claims that in working after welcoming her children, she was "trying to please" bandmates Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal and Adrian Young.
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Gwen Stefani has revealed she 'should have just been there' with her three children instead of working. Getty Images for The Met Museum/
Stefani, pictured here with her bandmates and Sting in 2014, says she had 'nothing left in' her during No Doubt's tour and recording their 2012 album. Getty
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The Hollaback Girl singer also admitted that she felt like a "loser" if she hadn't "come home with a song" after "leaving her family" to write music.
"I'd be like, 'Oh my God … I didn't have dinner with my family, and I didn't write a song,'" she told the publication.
"'I wasted an entire day of my life trying to be in No Doubt again.'"
Stefani was married to Gavin Rossdale at the time, with whom she shares sons Kingston, 17, Zuma, 15, and Apollo, 10.
Rossdale and Stefani divorced in 2016 after 14 years of marriage, and she's now married to her The Voice US co-star Blake Shelton.
Stefani continued: "Things change when you have two babies. … I had no ideas. I had so much insecurity. I felt like – help!"
She confessed that she had "nothing left in" her while the band was touring and working on Push and Shove, their 2012 album.
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Stefani is pictured here in October 2023 with her three sons and husband Blake Shelton. Getty
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Stefani said that after Kingston was born in 2006, she felt like she was creatively "dead" and like she had "disappointed" her bandmates when they found out she was pregnant again with Zuma.
"I don't think they would say that," Stefani said of Dumont, Kanal and Young. "No-one's going to be mad you're having a baby. But while I was busy, they were kind of waiting."
She ultimately joked with the publication that No Doubt "need[s] to probably" go to therapy together.
Stefani said: "We have a lot of water under the bridge".
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