It’s now official, Shakira and Gérard Piqué are separated. The couple, parents of two boys, Sasha and Milan, announced their separation after 12 years of relationship in a joint statement to the EFE agency, the Spanish equivalent of AFP, asking “respect for their privacy“, reports El Paísthis Saturday, June 4, 2022.”We regret to confirm that we are separating. For the well-being of our children, which is our highest priority, we ask that you respect their privacy. thank you for your understanding“, can we read in the press release.
Shakira, 45, and Gerard Pique, 35, were reportedly experiencing an unprecedented crisis, as reports in recent weeks have made clear. The magazine Whoa! had also revealed a week earlier that the Colombian singer had had a serious anxiety attack and had to be taken care of by the medical services in an ambulance, which would have taken her to the hospital in Barcelona. Like his former teammate Lionel Messi and his wife Antonela Roccuzzo, the captain of FC Barcelona forms an extremely popular couple with the singer. Since 2011, they have lived a wonderful relationship and from their love were born two boys.
They were “predestined” to meet
The couple met shortly before the World Cup held in South Africa in the summer of 2010. She sang the anthem WakaWaka when he was one of the stars who led Spain to win the coveted title. Gérard Piqué confided about their meeting, to L’Esportiu in 2020, having met Shakira in Madrid, may before traveling to South Africa. “I told him that we would meet in the finalhe hinted. She was going to sing the anthem at the closing ceremony and I assumed that we would play this game. We lost the first game, but in the end we won.“