{"id":117878,"date":"2024-06-14T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/14\/shakira-talks-split-from-gerard-pique-it-felt-like-someone-had-stabbed-a-hole-in-my-chest\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T00:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T00:01:19","slug":"shakira-talks-split-from-gerard-pique-it-felt-like-someone-had-stabbed-a-hole-in-my-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/14\/shakira-talks-split-from-gerard-pique-it-felt-like-someone-had-stabbed-a-hole-in-my-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakira talks split from Gerard Piqu\u00e9: &#8220;It felt like someone had stabbed a hole in my chest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-13\/Getty_Shakira_062723.png\" alt><figcaption>Marc Piasecki\/FilmMagic via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Shakira<\/strong> is opening up about her split from ex-husband <strong>Gerard Piqu\u00e9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a new cover story for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/shakira-heartache-songs-las-mujeres-ya-no-lloran-tour-1235034954\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, Shakira detailed how she felt after the pair announced their breakup in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suffering I felt was probably the greatest I had ever experienced in my entire life, and it kept me from functioning at times,\u201d Shakira said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like someone had stabbed a hole in my chest,\u201d Shakira continued. \u201cAnd the sensation was so real, almost physical. I physically felt like I had a hole in my chest and that people could see through me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shakira said several famous friends checked in on her during that rough period, including <strong>Coldplay<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Chris Martin<\/strong>. Out of support, Chris once sent her a picture of a shattered vase glued back together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKintsugi \u2014 you\u2019re going to be so much stronger once this is over,\u201d Chris told Shakira at the time, referencing a Japanese style of art.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the \u00admetaphor. That you break, and then you get fixed with gold, and you\u2019re more beautiful than you were before,\u201d Martin said. \u201cFor anyone going through a hard time, me included at times, that\u2019s a really powerful thing to hold on to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Returning to music has brought Shakira out of her heartbreak, she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a journey back to myself and the way there was through my music,\u201d Shakira said. \u201cI\u2019m in a moment where the worst has happened, and this process woke up a new sense of autonomy and independence in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Piasecki\/FilmMagic via Getty Images Shakira is opening up about her split from ex-husband Gerard Piqu\u00e9. In a new cover story for Rolling Stone, Shakira detailed how she felt after the pair announced their breakup in June 2022. \u201cThe suffering I felt was probably the greatest I had ever experienced<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/14\/shakira-talks-split-from-gerard-pique-it-felt-like-someone-had-stabbed-a-hole-in-my-chest\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}