Shakira Shares How Chris Martin Helped Her Through Painful Split

Singer Shakira has revealed how Chris Martin supported her amid her separation from former soccer star Gerard Piqué.

The “Stunning Liar” singer and the previous Barcelona defender had been collectively for 11 years earlier than she introduced their separation in 2022.

In the meantime, Chris is in a relationship with actress Dakota Johnson and was beforehand married to “Avengers” star Gwyneth Paltrow.

On December 19, Rolling Stone printed feedback from Shakira describing how Martin, whom she has been associates with for a very long time, helped her navigate a tough interval.

Following her break up from Piqué, the Coldplay frontman reached out to her to make sure she was okay. The “Hips Do not Lie” singer shared, “He was there for me after I obtained separated and was heartbroken. He was checking in day-after-day to see how I used to be doing, sending me phrases of help and energy and knowledge.”

Shakira additionally mentioned of Martin, “I see him as an individual who sees life by way of a distinct lens, who’s delicate to different individuals’s wants and really empathetic, very empathetic.”

Regardless of being collectively for 11 years, Shakira and Piqué by no means married. Nonetheless, they share two sons, Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9. The singer believed she and the previous soccer star would be together forever, however these needs crumbled in June 2022 when their romance ended.

Shakira spoke to Billboard in a September 2023 cowl story and shared her disappointment concerning the break up. She mentioned, “My precedence was my house, my household. I believed in until dying do us half. I believed that dream, and I had that dream for myself, for my youngsters. My dad and mom have been collectively, I do not know, 50 years, and so they love one another like the primary day, with a love that is distinctive and unrepeatable. So I do know it is potential.”

The mom of two famous that her dad and mom had been her instance, and he or she wished their type of relationship for herself and her youngsters, “however it did not occur.”

Regardless of dropping out on love, Shakira gained lovely friendships. In an October 2024 chat with GQ Spain, she opened up concerning the ache she endured after her long-term relationship with Piqué ended.

She mentioned per Goal.com, “I’ve realized that friendship is longer than love. I did not know that. Life took a husband from me however gave me so many associates. I by no means felt as liked, as held, as I did by my associates. I will need to have finished one thing proper in life to have so many individuals that love me.”

The 47-year-old revealed that a few of her friendships had been there for 20 years whereas others had been new and described them as “life’s rewards.” She concluded, “When there’s a lot ache, God squeezes, however he enables you to breathe.”

For a lot of months after her separation from her children’ father, Shakira stayed silent and tried to mourn. Nonetheless, she could not accomplish that till she started writing music.

She mentioned of music, “It was my approach of therapeutic. And it continues to be. Grief is a course of that’s not linear. It is stuffed with peaks and valleys.”

When requested how she views love now after her separation, Shakira mentioned, “It isn’t the identical. The love of a associate disenchanted me. It affected my idiosyncrasy. It is inevitable, at the least for the second, that I’ve misplaced belief within the different. The therapeutic course of is lengthy. It should take me a number of albums.”

Like Shakira, Martin has endured his fair proportion of damaged relationships. The Coldplay co-founder married Gwyneth Paltrow on December 5, 2003, and welcomed two children together with her: daughter Apple, born in 2004, and son Moses, born in 2006.

Martin and Paltrow introduced their separation in March 2014, describing it as a “acutely aware uncoupling.” The actress filed for divorce in April 2015, and it was finalized in July 2016.

After his divorce from Paltrow, Martin had an on-and-off relationship with “Peaky Blinders” actress Annabelle Wallis from August 2015 to August 2017.

Martin has been courting actress Dakota Johnson since 2017, with experiences stating they obtained engaged years in the past. Recently, there have been rumors that the pair had broken up, however he seemingly confirmed they had been nonetheless an merchandise throughout an interview with Rolling Stone, calling her certainly one of his greatest associates alongside his children.