Shakira Recalls Feeling ‘Betrayed’ by Ex Gerard Pique While Her Dad Was in the ICU: ‘My Home Was Falling Apart’

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Shakira faced several personal challenges while working through her split from Gerard Piqué, including a family health crisis.The singer, 46, opened up in a recent interview about feeling “betrayed” by speculation that Piqué, 36, had been unfaithful as she simultaneously dealt with the hospitalization of her father, William Mebarak Chadid.“[My dad] went to Barcelona to console me after I was consumed with sadness because of my separation,” she told People en Español on Monday, June 26. “While he was at [my son] 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.”Shakira, who shares sons Milan, 9, and Sasha, 7, with Piqué, thought 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,” she said about her dad’s “very hard and slow” recovery process.The “Hips Don’t Lie” performer praised her father for being able to pull through amid his health issues.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“He has overcome COVID once, two accidents, one [bout of] pneumonia and five surgeries — all of this at 91 years of age, in less than six months.

My dad is the biggest example of resilience, and my mother has been by his side day and night,” she concluded. “They have both been a reflection of that dream that didn’t come true for me.