Gwen Stefani has spoken about a profound spiritual experience that she says led to the birth of her youngest son Apollo, a story involving a co-worker’s religious awakening, her then eight-year-old son’s nightly prayers, and a pregnancy that she describes as nothing short of a miracle.
THE Without a doubt singer, now 56, shared the story during an interview with Hallow: prayer and meditationremembering a time in her early 40s when she desperately wanted another child but felt 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 was studying the Torah.
“He was studying the Torah, and he had this great revelation, and he began[ed] speaking to me about the Torah,” she recalls.
The conversations, she said, were “awake [her] standing” at a time when she felt “desperate”.
Around the same time, her son Kingston, now 19, earnestly asked her for a sibling.
Stefani told him she was too old to have another baby, believing it just wasn’t possible. But Kingston, she said, didn’t accept that answer. She remembers hearing him pray every night that she would conceive.
“It was like four weeks later and I was pregnant with Apollo,” she said. “I got it at 44, naturally. It was a real gift. And that was the first miracle.”
Apollo, now 12, is the youngest of three sons Stefani shares with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, alongside Kingston and Zuma, 17.
Stefani and Rossdale, who were married in the Catholic Church in 2002, divorced in 2016, with the marriage subsequently annulled by the Church in 2021, a development that held deep significance for the practicing Catholic.
Stefani is now married to Blake Shelton.
