In January 2023, she released BZRP Music Sessions #53 with Argentine producer Bizarrap. It was not a sad ballad. It was a scalpel dipped in battery acid.
Spanish news agency Europa Press reported that the couple had separated. The reason? Infidelity. Piqué, it emerged, had allegedly been seeing a younger woman, a PR worker named Clara Chía Martí. The timeline was brutal: the affair supposedly began while Shakira was at home, isolated and immunocompromised after a bout of COVID-19, caring for their children and her aging father. i--- Watch Shakira And Gerard Pique Sex Tape -UPD-
Yet, the first “date” was famously unconventional. To avoid the paparazzi, they locked themselves in a storage closet at the video shoot. For hours. They talked, laughed, and discovered a magnetic connection. When they emerged, the die was cast. The only problem? Shakira was 10 years his senior, a global icon since she was a teenager, and wary of the spotlight. Piqué, persistent and charming, didn’t care about the age gap. He cared about her. Unlike the Kardashian-style overexposure of modern romance, Shakira and Piqué kept their core relationship fiercely guarded. They never did a joint interview that wasn’t about football or music. They rarely walked red carpets together. In January 2023, she released BZRP Music Sessions
Piqué retired from football and is now known as much for his King’s League (a quirky seven-a-side football tournament) as for the infamous "Clara" memes. Spanish news agency Europa Press reported that the
And as Shakira might say, women don’t cry anymore. They write hits.
Piqué, for his part, tried to laugh it off. He appeared in a commercial for a Casio watch and posted a photo of a Rolex. But the public had already chosen a side. The image of the noble defender was shattered. He became the villain in his own life story. Today, the romance is over. Shakira has relocated to Miami, won multiple Latin Grammys for her heartbreak songs, and declared in interviews that "a relationship has to be a project of two, but it can only work when you put your own dreams aside for the shared ones." She implied she put her career on hold for his—a sacrifice she won't make again.
They even collaborated professionally. Piqué appeared in the music video for La La La (the 2014 World Cup anthem), and Shakira became a fixture in the VIP boxes of Barcelona’s stadium, cheering for her man in the stands while wearing his jersey number—3—on her back. The fairy tale began to splinter in the summer of 2022. The first hint wasn’t a tabloid leak, but a mysterious, uncharacteristic silence. Shakira stopped posting photos with Piqué. She moved back to Miami with the children for a "work project."