Their romance is one which continually makes headlines for alleged drama, but behind the scenes, it seems that Blake Shelton is just what Gwen Stefani needed to recover from the heartbreak and devastation of her divorce from Gavin Rossdale.

The singer, whose new album, This Is What The Truth Feels Like comes out on Friday, featuring new hit songs like her break-up anthem to Rossdale, "Used To Love You," and the song many believe is about Shelton, "Make Me Like You," has admitted in a series of new interviews that she went through hell in 2015—and music and Shelton were what helped her through it.

Stefani admits that she had initially started a different version of her new album, but after discovering that Rossdale cheated on her with nanny Mindy Mann for three years last winter, everything changed for her.

"Well, when I started the first version of this record—the fake, cheating version—the intention was like, 'What can it sound like? I want to be back on the radio. I want this, I want that.' Then, last February, I think a lot of people know that my life fell apart," she told NPR. "I got a divorce. The D-word."

"[They were married] Fourteen [years]. Together 20. You just crumble, you know?" She added. "I was down—I was all the way down. And I just felt, 'God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason.' And I knew that I had to turn to music."

However, though the album does deal with her heartbreak from the divorce, there is a part of the album that also deals with her finding new love when she and Shelton, who went through his own divorce from Miranda Lambert last summer, started dating after becoming friends initially as co-stars on The Voice. And though she still keeps things close when it comes to discussing her current relationship with him, she does credit him with helping her through the process of grieving and eventually moving on.

"I think that when you go through what I went through, or what I'm still going through, you think you're hopeless," she told Refinery 29. "You don't know what's going to happen. You Panic. It was a really super-unexpected gift to find a friend, somebody who happened to be going through the exact same thing as me, literally mirroring my experience. I don't think it's an accident that that happened. It saved me."

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Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani