Shakira leaned on Chris Martin after her break up from Gerard Piqué in 2022.
In a brand new Rolling Stone cowl story, the “Hips Do not Lie” artist, 47, opened up about how the Coldplay bandleader, 47, helped her amid her break up from her ex-partner, 37.
“He was there for me after I acquired separated and was heartbroken,” stated Shakira of Martin, following her breakup from the Spanish footballer. “He was checking in each day to see how I used to be doing, sending me phrases of assist and energy and knowledge.”
Of the “Yellow” hitmaker, she added: “I see him as an individual who sees life by a unique lens, who’s delicate to different individuals’s wants and really empathetic, very empathetic.”
Yana Yatsuk
Shakira and Piqué have been collectively for 11 years earlier than their extremely publicized break up in 2022, which was adopted by dishonest rumors that surfaced a 12 months later. The pair share two youngsters, sons Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9.
In a July 2024 cowl story with Rolling Stone, the “Waka Waka” performer opened up concerning the emotional toll it took on her.
“The struggling I felt was in all probability the best I had ever skilled in my whole life, and it saved me from performing at occasions,” Shakira defined.
The ache made her really feel much more weak, as she famous: “It felt like somebody had stabbed a gap in my chest. And the feeling was so actual, nearly bodily. I bodily felt like I had a gap in my chest and that individuals may see by me.”
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Yana Yatsuk
In an October cowl story with GQ Spain, Shakira mentioned the affect that her first album in seven years, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Girls Do not Cry Anymore), had on her therapeutic journey.
“For a lot of months after my separation I had been silent, attempting to start my mourning, however I could not actually start to grieve till I began writing music,” she instructed the outlet. “It was my means of therapeutic. And it continues to be. Grief is a course of that’s not linear. It is filled with peaks and valleys.”
