Shakira isn’t too enthusiastic about spreading the love following her breakup with ex-partner Gerard Piqué.
The “Hips Don’t Lie” singer, 47 finally addressed rumors that she caught the soccer player, 37, cheating on her via a jam jar in a new interview.
When The Sunday Times asked if the jam-packed talk was valid, she said: “Not true.”
Rumors swirled last year that the Grammy winner caught the sports star cheating on her via a jam jar. WireImageIn 2022, Shakira and Piqué announced their split after 11 years together. The exes share sons Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9.
“For a long time I put my career on hold, to be next to Gerard, so he could play football,” she added to the outlet.
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“There was a lot of sacrifice for love.”
In January 2023, reports claimed that a container of fruit jelly made the Colombian singer suspicious of the athlete’s alleged infidelity.
ShowNews Today said at the time that Shakira came home one evening to find the jam — which was a flavor that no one in her family enjoys — missing from the glass receptacle.
“For a long time I put my career on hold, to be next to Gerard, so he could play football,” she said. GC ImagesThe lost spread caused the “Whenever, Wherever” musician to become doubtful and led her to believe that someone else had been in her home.
Shakira and Piqué first crossed paths on the set of the music video for her song “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa”) in 2010.
The sports star has been dating Clara Chía Martí since 2022, while the “Oral Fixation” singer has been previously linked to F1 star Lewis Hamilton.
Shakira appeared to slam the new couple in her songs “TQG” and “BZRP Music Session #53,” which dropped last year.
The couple split in 2022 and share two children together. Corbis via Getty ImagesElsewhere in her chat with the Sunday Times, Shakira opened up about her new Spanish-language album, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women No Longer Cry).“
The record is set to be released on Friday and its thematic themes encompass “the transformation of pain into creativity, frustration into productivity, anger into passion, vulnerability into resilience.”
“There were so many pieces of my life that crumbled in front of my eyes and I had to rebuild myself in a way, picking up the bones from the floor and putting them all together,” she explained. “And the glue that kept it all together was music.”
“It helped me exercise a lot of the demons that were tormenting me,” the Grammy winner said, adding that it felt “good” to write about her breakup.
