Gavin Rossdale needs he had “extra of a connection” with ex-wife Gwen Stefani.

The Bush frontman, 58, who has three youngsters with the 54-year-old ‘Wealthy Woman’ singer – from whom he cut up in 2015 – added in a brand new interview he felt “handcuffed” as a result of he didn’t need to “say something damaging” about his former associate.

He instructed the ‘Amy and TJ’ podcast with Amy Robach and TJ Holmes: “I by no means thought I’d ever get divorced. So there’s a easy disgrace in my life.”

Speaking about how each his mother and father had been married 3 times and he by no means wished his youngsters to have an identical expertise, Gavin added: “I really feel unhealthy for my youngsters, that’s it.

“I want I may have discovered a option to not have that of their lives. It wasn’t enjoyable for me to return from a damaged residence.

“It may be fairly debilitating for teenagers… the overriding issues is you don’t need to let your youngsters down.”

Gavin has sons Kingston, 17, Zuma, 15, and Apollo, 10, with Gwen, who he married in 2002 earlier than they broke up amid rumours he cheated on her with their nanny.

He added: “The largest factor can be once you see the children that typically there’s a loss.

“It’d be good if there was extra of a reference to the one that made them with me.”

Gwen has moved on with nation singer Blake Shelton, 47, who she married in 2021 after they met on the set of ‘The Voice’ whereas the singer was within the midst of his divorce from 40-year-old fellow nation performer Miranda Lambert.

Gavin went on about his life bumping into Gwen and her new associate since their cut up: “I’m going to plenty of occasions the place there’s ‘the opposite workforce’. so to talk, and I simply really feel actually happy with myself in my consistency as a father. I do know in my coronary heart that I’m tremendous constant.”

He additionally mentioned their “debilitating” divorce was a “very contentious, vastly emotional, flared-up state of affairs.”

Dad-of-four Gavin – who additionally has daughter Daisy, 35, from his earlier relationship with 53-year-old clothier Pearl Lowe – lately made his romance with musician girlfriend Xhoana Instagram-official.