Country star and 'The Voice' coach Blake Shelton has revealed that he will never forget the day when he and current girlfriend Gwen Stefani connected on a deeper level. 

During a personal new interview with Billboard magazine, the musician explained that they were both going through high-profile divorces and Stefani expressed an incredible amount of empathy towards him, which was a very moving thing to experience:

"I won't forget that day. I looked over at Gwen -- who I didn't really know -- and she had these huge tears in her eyes. I thought, 'Wow, she feels super bad for me!'"

"I thought it was going to be another one of those things-are-going-to-be-OK talks. She didn't tell me much, because we didn't know each other at the time, but she said, 'I'm going through something very similar to what you're going through. I understand. And I hate it.'"

"That's kind of how our friendship and bond started, that day. It went from that, to checking in on each other once a week through email -- 'This shit happened to me, what happened to you?' -- to maybe three times a week, then every day, to 'Hey, here's my phone number if you ever want to text.' Next thing I know, I wake up and she's all I care about, and I'm ­wondering if she feels the same about me."

Shelton added: "Gwen saved my life. Who else on earth could understand going through a high-profile divorce from another musician? You can't even imagine the similarities in our divorces."

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