{"id":147814,"date":"2025-02-03T09:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/shakira-admits-shes-had-a-hard-couple-of-years-following-her-split-from-gerard-pique\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:11:49","slug":"shakira-admits-shes-had-a-hard-couple-of-years-following-her-split-from-gerard-pique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/shakira-admits-shes-had-a-hard-couple-of-years-following-her-split-from-gerard-pique\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakira admits she&#8217;s had a &#8216;hard couple of years&#8217; following her split from Gerard Pique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-02-03\" datetime=\"1738573909\" pubdate=\"\">3 February 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/shakira\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,shakira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shakira<\/a> has had a &#8220;hard couple of years&#8221; since splitting from Gerard Pique.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Shakira admits she&#8217;s had a &#8216;hard couple of years&#8217; following her split from Gerard Pique<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old pop star called time on her relationship with Gerard &#8211; with whom she has Milan, 12, and 10-year-old Sasha &#8211; in June 2022 after 11 years together and has now admitted that music has been her therapy throughout that time.<\/p>\n<p>She told US TV show &#8216;Extra&#8217;: &#8220;Songs evolve, they live their own life\u2026 they evolve in people\u2019s lives. They become the soundtrack of so many, including myself. I remember chapters of my life through my own music and where I was back then emotionally and mentally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve learned that my music has a\u2026 therapeutic effect. I&#8217;ve been through kind of like a hard couple of years, personally, you know, with separation and all, but music has been sort of the glue that put me back together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Whenever, Wherever&#8217; hitmaker previously admitted that a long-term relationship was &#8220;dragging [her] down&#8221; and she has started to embrace life as a single mother.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music, she said: &#8220;In a way it&#8217;s kind of good not to have a husband because it was dragging me down.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Now I feel like working, I feel like writing songs, I feel like making music, it&#8217;s just a compulsive need that I didn&#8217;t have before.<\/p>\n<p>\nI am in charge of these two kids, these two babies who depend on me so much and I&#8217;m a single mother, I don&#8217;t have a husband and home to help out with anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter they split, Shakira and footballer Gerard , 38, reached a custody agreement that allowed her to leave her adopted home of Barcelona, Spain, and move to the US with her sons.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking to ELLE magazine in the months after the breakup, Shakira admitted she&#8217;s been through an incredibly &#8220;difficult&#8221; time.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe explained: &#8220;It\u2019s hard to talk about it, especially because I\u2019m still going through it, and because I\u2019m in the public eye and because our separation is not like a regular separation. And so it\u2019s been tough not only for me, but also for my kids. Incredibly difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/shakira-admits-hard-couple-years-following-split-gerard-pique-1413170.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 February 2025 Shakira has had a &#8220;hard couple of years&#8221; since splitting from Gerard Pique. Shakira admits she&#8217;s had a &#8216;hard couple of years&#8217; following her split from Gerard Pique The 48-year-old pop star called time on her relationship with Gerard &#8211; with whom she has Milan, 12, and 10-year-old Sasha &#8211; in June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[417,416],"class_list":{"0":"post-147814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-gerard-pique","9":"tag-shakira"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}