Gwen Stefani found it hard to juggle her first-time experience with motherhood and the early days of her band, No Doubt.
As the 54-year-old singer gears up for the upcoming No Doubt reunion for Coachella 2024, she admitted in an interview with NYLON Print that she felt stuck between being a good mother and a good bandmate.
“I would be leaving my family,” the mom-of-three reflected about the sacrifice she had to make every time she went to work on a new song.
Stefani continued, “And if I didn’t come home with a song, I’d be like, ‘Oh my God, I’m such a loser – I didn’t have dinner with my family, AND I didn’t write a song. I wasted an entire day of my life trying to be in No Doubt again.”
Now almost two decades later, she has a different perspective.
“I look at it now and I think, ‘God, what was I doing trying to please everybody?’ Because really, I should have just been with my family,” she said.
Stefani shares sons Kingston, Zuma, and Apollo with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale.
She tied the knot with Blake Shelton in 2021.
Earlier this year, the couple released a song together, Purple Irises.