Gwen Stefani has opened up about a profound spiritual experience she believes led to the birth of her youngest son Apollo, a story involving a colleague’s religious awakening, her then eight-year-old son’s nightly prayers and a pregnancy she describes as nothing short of a miracle.
The No doubt the singer, now 56, shared the story during an interview with Hallow: Prayer and meditationand recalls a period in the early forties when she desperately wanted another child but felt that time was running out.
At the time, she was working with a man she describes as a former “atheist Jew” who had converted to Judaism and studied the Torah.
“He studied the Torah and he had this great revelatory awakening and he began[ed] talking to me about the Torah,” she recalled.
The conversations, she said, were “awake.” [her] up” at a time when she felt “desperate”.
Around the same time, her son Kingston, now 19, came to her with a heartfelt request for a sibling.
Stefani told him she was too old to have another child, believing it simply wasn’t possible. But Kingston, she says, didn’t accept that answer. She remembers hearing him pray every night for her to get pregnant.
“It was like four weeks later and I was pregnant with Apollo,” she said. “I got him at 44, of course. It was a complete gift. And that was the first miracle.”
Apollo, now 12, is the youngest of the three sons Stefani shares with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, along with Kingston and Zuma, 17.
Stefani and Rossdale, who married in the Catholic Church in 2002, divorced in 2016 and the marriage was subsequently annulled by the Church in 2021, a development that had deep implications for the practicing Catholic.
Stefani is now married to Blake Shelton.
