To say Gwen Stefani was caught off guard when Matt Lauer asked about her divorce from Gavin Rossdale on the Today Show on Tuesday is an understatement, but The Voice mentor held her own.
Stefani was asked if her new single “Used to Love You” is about what she’s going through after her split, and she confirmed it is.
“Your personal life has been in the headlines,” Lauer began. “Are fans misinterpreting something here or is it all right there in front of us in terms of the song?"
She cringed for a moment and blushed, clearly being caught off guard by the question. She was there to promote The Voice with fellow judges Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Pharrell Williams.
"Oh my God!” she said. “Put me on the spot!" But she explained, "What I'll say about that is that I've never put a record out where I'm actually going through things in real time."
She confirmed she wrote the song just a “couple weeks ago” and the video wasn’t meant to be the music video at the time it was shot but it was so raw that she used it.
“I sat in front of a camera in a dressing room randomly not making a video, just to do some video for the screens behind me, and then it went out and it's the video and it's like all very real,” she admitted.
Stefani and Rossdale announced their split after 13 years of marriage in August. They share three sons; Kingston, 9, Zuma, 6, and Apolo, 1.