Gavin Rossdale Says That He and Gwen Stefani Have ‘Opposing Views’ as Coparents: ‘We’re Really Different People’

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Nearly seven years after Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani split, they have remained committed to amicably raising their three sons.“I think you can go one of two ways — you either do everything together and really coparent, and see how that goes — or you can just parent.

And I think we just parent,” the Bush frontman, 57, said during a Thursday, June 15, appearance on the “Not So Hollywood” podcast. “We’re really different people, so I don’t think there’s much similarity in the way we bring them up but I think that gives them an incredible perspective to then choose which pieces of those two lives they’d like to inherit and move on with and which part of themselves come out of the whole process.”Rossdale added: “What’s important is to give them a wide view of things and we definitely have some particularly opposing views so I think it’d be really helpful for them to make their own minds, as they should, as individuals.”The “Chemicals Between Us” singer and Stefani, 53, were married from 2002 to 2016.

After they called it quits, the duo planned to coparent their three sons: Kingston, 17, Zuma, 14, and Apollo, 9. However, Rossdale — who also shares daughter Daisy, 34, with ex Pearl Lowe — further explained to podcast host Adrianna Costa that he “doesn’t really know” what coparenting means “because you have them on the time that you have.”“We split the time 50/50,” the “Machinehead” crooner explained of his arrangement with Stefani, who married Blake Shelton in 2021. “So, when I have them, [I’m] doing my thing my way and then the other way [when the boys are with Gwen].

I think that they’re now of the age where they’re starting to appreciate which elements of either house they might take on into their adulthood [or] maybe