Shakira
She is still so unhappy about the separation
Shakira has been single again for over a year.
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With the separation from Gerard Piqué, Shakira’s biggest dream in life has also been dashed: to have a family with the father of her children.
Shakira (46) spoke honestly in an interview about her painful separation from soccer player Gerard Piqué (36). A good year after the end of love She now said to “Billboard”: “I’m still in the phase of reflection. I’m still in the process of exorcising some demons. The last ones I still have.”
Shakira and Piqué were a couple for eleven years and have two sons together, 10-year-old Milán and 8-year-old Sasha. The two announced their separation in June 2022. After the breakup, the singer moved back to Miami from Barcelona and gave her career a new boost – also with a song that clearly refers to her ex.
“You just have to keep your head above water.”
“I went through several phases: denial, anger, pain, frustration, anger again, pain again. Now I’m in a survival phase. You just have to keep your head above water,” says Shakira, summarizing her current situation. She had hoped for a love like that of her parents, who have been together for 50 years: “They love each other like they did on the first day, with a love that is unique and unrepeatable,” said the musician in the interview. “This is what I wanted for myself and my children, but it didn’t happen.”
Since the separation, Shakira has been making very conscious use of her time with her children: “This summer, for example, I dedicated the time they spent with me entirely to them […] If I can only have her half the time, I’ll make the most of my half.”
“I don’t think everyone has access to happiness”
When asked if she is happy now, Shakira replies: “I don’t think everyone has access to happiness. It’s reserved for a very small group of people and I can’t say I belong to that club at the moment. “
Shakira also doubts that, in retrospect, she will ever see the separation as a good thing: “My biggest dream, more than collecting platinum records and Grammys, was to raise my sons with their father. Overcoming obstacles and growing old together. I I know I can’t get that anymore.”