The universe really dealt Shakira a bad hand last year… As we all know, the Hips Don’t Lie singer broke up with her longtime partner, Gerard Piqué, last June after reports claimed he was cheating on the pop star with (his new girlfriend) Clara Chia Marti.
But the time period was also incredibly stressful for the artist when her father, William Mebarak Chadid, ended up in the hospital! Related: Shakira In Messy ‘Love Triangle’ With Tom Cruise & Lewis Hamilton?! Now, in a new cover story with People en Español out on Monday, Shakira is opening up about what it was like to navigate the difficult time in her life.
According to her, her dad came to visit Barcelona to “console me after I was consumed with sadness because of my separation” but he wound up getting “gravely injured in an accident” during her eldest son Milan’s first communion.
She shared: Just one of these incidents would have been bad, but all at once?! It’s a literal nightmare. Related: Shakira Drops A Very Different Breakup Song… Sadly, the performer felt like she couldn’t “survive” everything that she was going through at the time, and she found it particularly hard not to be able to speak to her “best friend” (AKA her dad) for advice.
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