Shakira admitted she didn’t think she would “survive” after finding out her ex, Gerard Pique, had “betrayed” her while her father, William Mebarak Chadid, was in ICU.
A year after announcing the end of her 11-year relationship with Spanish football, 36, the superstar, 46, recalled how her father “flew to Barcelona to comfort her” as she was “consumed with grief over” their parting.
“While at the First Communion of Milan, he was seriously injured in an accident. Everything happened at once. My house was falling apart,” she said People in Spanish.
She continued, “I found out through the press that I had been betrayed while my father was in ICU.”
The mum-of-two, who shares two sons, Milan, 10, and Sasha, eight, with Piqué, said she was devastated that she couldn’t turn to her dad, 91, for the advice she “needed so much ‘.
Painful time: Shakira admitted she didn’t think she would ‘survive’ after finding out her ex, Gerard Pique, had ‘betrayed’ her while her father, William Mebarak Chadid, was in ICU (seen in May 2023 )
During the interview, Shakira went on to say, “The man I loved the most in my life, my father, left me when I needed him the most. I couldn’t talk to him or go to my best friend for the advice I so desperately needed.’
The hitmaker Hips Don’t Lie commented that her father’s recovery was “very difficult and slow.”
The three-time Grammy winner also described her father as a “great man and an endearing character who surprises us all with his strength.”
Speaking about his long-term marriage to her mother, Nidia Ripoll Torrado, Shakira said their relationship is “a reflection of that dream that didn’t come true for her.”
Still, she hopes they serve as “role models” for her children as a good example of a healthy marriage.
Shakira and Gerard split last year after 11 years together, and the sportsman has since been accused of cheating.
The singer realized that her ex was having an affair when she discovered that a jar of strawberry jam had been eaten in her absence.
Shakira then described this in a music video for her single Te Felicito in April, which featured a clip of her collaborator Rauw Alejandro’s head in an open refrigerator.
End of an era: A year after announcing the end of her 11-year relationship with Spanish football, aged 36, the 46-year-old superstar recalled how her father flew to Barcelona to comfort her as she was “consumed with grief” ‘because of’ their divorce; seen in 2014
“While at the First Communion of Milan, he was seriously injured in an accident. Everything happened at once. My house was falling apart,” she told People en Español
According to ToonNews todayShakira knew Gerard and their children didn’t like strawberry jam, so she suspected someone else was staying at their house when she found the jar.
Shakira came home from a stint traveling when she found the jam in her fridge had been eaten, and she knew the rest of her family hated it.
The singer seemed to allude to this in the music video for her single Te Felicito, which shows her opening a fridge only to be greeted by Rauw’s head.
Gerard has since gone public with his new girlfriend Clara Chia Marti, and Shakira even took a swipe at her in her new diss track, which has since topped Spotify’s Global Charts.
Shakira also didn’t shy away from swindling her former mother-in-law by erecting a terrifying life-sized witch doll on the balcony of her Spanish home, reportedly overlooking her former mother-in-law’s pillow.
Shakira released a diss track aimed at her ex with producer Bizarrap in January, called Shakira Bzrp Music Sessions 53, in Spanish.
Residents in the area reported hearing Shakira “pop the song at full volume” from her former home, including lyrics aimed at his new girlfriend. The singer has since moved to Miami.
Shakira, made it crystal clear that she was referring to the 23-year-old her ex-partner would date before they broke up last year, saying, “I’m worth two 22s.” You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo. You traded in a Rolex for a Casio.”
While Shakira’s new song has some barbed lyrics aimed at Gerard and his supposed new love, as well as a few choice words for her ex-mother-in-law.
In the song she sang the line: “You left my mother-in-law as my neighbor, with the press at the door and the debt in the treasury…”.
It had been reported that the relationship between Shakira and Montserrat Bernabéu [Gerard’s mother] has turned sour after happily welcoming her son’s new romance.