Gwen Stefani wishes Blake Shelton had proposed to her before the pandemic hit

No Doubt punk-rock queen Gwen Stefani was probably singing her hit song “What You Waiting For?” for a few years there during her courtship with country crooner Blake Shelton, because after five years of dating, what was he waiting for exactly? Was living together, quarantining together, and cutting each other’s hair not enough of an impetus to pop the question?

“I gotta tell you, I was sort of like, ‘What’s happening with us?’” Gwen admitted Tuesday night during her appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon (weeknights at 11:30pET on CTV).

“It was kind of in my mind like, ‘We’ve been together a long time now. What’s going on?’ I was in that place in my head,” she explained as she went into details about how her The Voice costar actually popped the question.

It happened during a trip to Oklahoma to visit Blake’s sister – a trip they’d nearly cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic – and she later learned that Blake had been hiding the ring on the side of his “disgusting” truck as they rode through muddy places.

But when the “magical” moment happened as she described, it was really emotional for the both of them. “We both start bawling. Everyone was in shock.”

When Blake and Stefani announced the engagement on social media, it turns out that, “I heard a yes!” photo is one of the few recorded images of the special moment. “There was no video!” she admitted. “My sister-in-law-to-be was there, she just started like shooting off pictures and that’s the shot we put out.”

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But now the real problem, she admitted, is that they can’t even plan the wedding because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Doing so would mean endangering lives and violating stay-at-home orders. So naturally, the Hollaback Girl is kinda bummed her beau didn’t pop the question after year two or three of dating.

“We have no plans because of the pandemic,” she laughed. “It’s like, ‘Blake, why couldn’t you have done it before?’ Now we can’t have a wedding with the pandemic. It’s like sitting around going, ‘OK, drag it out more!'”

We’d hazard a guess that if they can survive quarantining together, they can also survive a very long engagement.

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