Gwen Stefani wonders why Blake Shelton hadn’t proposed sooner: ‘What’s happening with us?’

Three-time Grammy winner Gwen Stefani is still wondering why her fiancé Blake Shelton didn’t propose to her sooner after five years of dating.

‘I gotta tell you, I was sort of like, “What’s happening with us?”‘ the 51-year-old pop star said on Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

‘It was kind of in my mind. “We’ve been together a long time now. What’s going on?” Like, I was in that place in my head.’   

Now Gwen and the 44-year-old country crooner will have to wait until the spiking coronavirus pandemic dies down before they can actually plan their wedding.

‘We have no plans because of the pandemic,’ Stefani lamented.

‘It’s like, “Blake, why couldn’t you have [proposed] before?” Now we can’t have a wedding with the pandemic. It’s, like, sitting around going, “Okay, drag it out more!”‘

COVID-19 is spiking nationwide, and there have been over 841K confirmed cases in LA leading to 11,089 deaths as of Wednesday – according to Johns Hopkins University.  

In Oklahoma, there are reportedly 208K confirmed COVID cases leading to 2,571 deaths as of Wednesday.

As for the October 27th engagement, the Orange County Girl said the moment ‘was actually pretty magical’ at the 1,382-acre 10 Point Ranch in Tishomingo in his native Oklahoma.

‘[I] wasn’t expecting it at the moment that it happened – at all,’ Gwen admitted.

‘Didn’t have any idea. Nobody knew. I think he had told my dad on my birthday about two weeks earlier.’  

Stefani continued: ‘We were this close to, like, canceling the trip, and we ended up making it all happen. And we were all here at the ranch and basically it happened, but everybody was trying to make it not happen because nobody knew it was gonna happen. And Blake, meanwhile, had this ring, like I guess, in the side of his truck.’

Shelton famously began dating his co-star on The Voice three months after legally separating from ex-wife #2 Miranda Lambert in July 2015 after four years of marriage.

Gwen has three sons – Zuma, 12; Kingston, 14; and Apollo, 6 – from her 13-year marriage to Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, which ended in August 2015 amid nanny cheating allegations.

Stefani was on the NBC late night talk show to perform her new single Let Me Reintroduce Myself – which dropped December 7 – off her upcoming fifth studio album.