Gavin Rossdale Says He and Ex Gwen Stefani Are Not Co-Parenting, They “Just Parent”

Gavin Rossdale isn’t beating around the bush about co-parenting his three sons, Kingston, 17, Zuma, 14, and Apollo, 9, with ex-wife Gwen Stefani. 

On Thursday’s episode of the podcast Not So Hollywood, the Bush frontman said that he and Stefani, who divorced in 2015 due to “irreconcilable differences,” have different parenting philosophies. They have since had their marriage officially annulled by the Catholic Church.

“I think you can go one of two ways—you can either do everything together and really co-parent, and see how that goes—or you can just parent,” he said. “And I think we just parent.”

Rossdale said that he and Stefani “definitely have some particularly opposing views” and are “very different people.” “I don’t think there’s much similarity in the way we bring them up,” he said, describing watching football games or graduations over FaceTime sometimes, because he and Stefani share custody.

“I know that wherever they are, either house, they’re loved and supported,” he said. Stefani has since remarried to country star Blake Shelton in 2021 (officiated by Carson Daly, no less), while Rossdale said that he’s currently single and turns Raya “on and off,” though he’s “not sure how tangible it is.”

He’s not a “rockstar dad” to his kids, either: “I’m the juice killer, I’m the caterer,” he said.

“I spend my life either on tour or with my kids,” he said. “I do tell them that, the one trouble that I do have is that when I come home from tour, I am missing the applause, and if the three of them could figure out a way to congratulate me for bringing food to the table, taking them somewhere, a little round of applause wouldn’t go badly.”

On Tuesday, he posted a selfie with his three sons, palling around London.

Though they are, as Stefani’s former band No Doubt might have said, different people, it sounds like the one thing Rossdale and Stefani do still have in common is a mutual care for their children.

“It’s just about the kids and them alone, that’s it,” he said.

A representative for Stefani did not immediately return a request for comment.