More than a year afterShakiraandGerard Piquéannounced their split, the Colombian superstar is reflecting on another hardship she endured simultaneously.
The “Hips Don’t Lie” performer, 46, was speaking to the outlet about how her mother Nidia Ripoll Torrado is her “partner in crime,” and Chadid, 91, is her “best friend” when she recalled the incident.
William Mebarak Chadid with Shakira’s sons, Milan and Sasha.Instagram/shakira
Instagram/shakira
“He went to Barcelona to console me after I was consumed with sadness because of my separation,” said Shakira, who sharestwo sons — Milan, 9, and Sasha, 7, with Piqué, 36. “While he was at Milan’s first communion, he was gravely injured in an accident. Everything happened at once. My home was falling apart. I was finding out through the press that I had been betrayed while my dad was in the ICU.”
She recalled thinking she “wasn’t going to survive” the hardships: “The man I have loved the most in my life, my father, was leaving me when I needed him the most. I couldn’t talk to him, or go to my best friend for the advice I needed so much.”
Detailing Chadid’s recovery process, Shakira said it’s “been very hard and slow” but praised him as a “wonderful man and an endearing character who surprises us all with his strength.”
Jaume De Laiguana.Shakira
Shakira
Months after announcing her split from Piqué, Shakira released a collaboration with Argentine producerBizarraptitled “BZRP Music Session #53,” which featured specific lyrics about their split, its aftermath and the soccer star’s current girlfriend,Clara Chia Marti.
“I wish you luck with my supposed replacement / I don’t even know what happened to you / I’m worth two of 22 [year old],” she sang on the top-10-charting track.
Shakira.Jaume De Laiguana
Jaume De Laiguana
Elsewhere in thePeople en Españolinterview, Shakira spoke about feeling “very excited” to release new music about the “narrative that has developed along with events in my life.” She said the music will also discuss “the different stages I have gone through spiritually, mentally and even physically.”
“I have gone through denial, rage, pain, acceptance, grief, hope, deception, hope again, excitement. So many emotions and feelings that at times seem mixed, that didn’t seem to be able to coexist inside of me, that I have been able to untangle only through my songs, to understand myself better,” she continued. “Not to explain or justify myself, only to understand myself and tolerate myself.”
source: people.com
