Shakira claimed that her longtime former beau Gerard Pique cheated on her while her father was fighting for his life in the intensive care unit of the hospital.
In speaking to People en Español, the pop star praised her father, William Mebarak Chadid, for headed to Barcelona to support her immediately after her split from Gerard, with whom she shares sons Milan, 10, and Sasha, 7."He went to Barcelona to console me after I was consumed with sadness because of my separation," the pop star said of her 91-year-old dad. "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."With so much happening in her orbit, the three-time Grammy winner was wondering if she was "going to survive.""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," she said.William's recovery has been "very hard and slow.""He has overcome COVID once, two accidents, one pneumonia and five surgeries — all of this at 91 years of age, in less than six months.
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