Everything Shakira Has Said About Gerard Pique Split, His Clara Chia Romance: Cryptic Messages, Shady Songs and More

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Everything Shakira Has Said About Gerard Pique Split, His Clara Chia Romance: Cryptic Messages, Shady Songs and More

Moving on! Since Shakira and Gerard Piqué announced their split after 12 years together, the songstress has been candid about dealing with heartbreak.

“This is really hard to talk about personally, especially as this is the first time I’ve ever addressed this situation in an interview,” the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer told Elle in a September 2022 profile. “I’ve remained quiet and just tried to process it all. … It’s hard to talk about it, especially because I’m still going through it, and because I’m in the public eye and because our separation is not like a regular separation.”

Shakira and the former FC Barcelona athlete, who began dating in 2011, announced three months earlier that they had separated.

“We regret to confirm that we are separating,” the now-exes — who never married amid their longtime relationship — wrote in a joint statement in June 2022. “For the wellbeing of our children, who are our highest priority, we ask that you respect their privacy.”

Shakira and Piqué — who share sons Milan, born in 2013, and Sasha, born in 2015 — made headlines earlier that month after the soccer star was accused of having an affair. The twosome did not address the claims at the time nor note if the accusations contributed to their decision to separate.

The Spain native has since moved on with Clara Chia, a college student styling public relations, who is 12 years his junior. The new couple were first spotted together at a Dani Martín concert in August 2022, where they were photographed packing on the PDA. Piqué and the model later made their Instagram debut in January 2023.

The Dancing With Myself judge, who was previously linked to lawyer Antonio de la Rúa between 2000 and 2010, has not publicly addressed the new couple. However, several of her social media uploads and recent music releases have seemingly alluded to how she’s coping in light of the news.

“I’m not coming back here, I don’t want another disappointment / So much that you pretend to be a champion / And when I needed you, you gave your worst version,” Shakira crooned in her “BZRP Music Session #53” single in Spanish, which dropped weeks before the athlete made his romance Instagram official. “Sorry, baby, it’s been a while / I should have thrown that cat away / A she-wolf like me ain’t for a rookie.”

While the Colombia native did not reveal her lyrical inspiration, the lyrics hint that she feels that Chia is her “supposed replacement.”

Neither Piqué nor Chia have addressed the “She Wolf” performer’s cryptic messages.

Scroll below for Shakira’s most cryptic messages that are seemingly about her ex’s new relationship:

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Everything Shakira Has Said About Gerard Pique Split, His Clara Chia Romance: Cryptic Messages, Shady Songs and More

Moving on! Since Shakira and Gerard Piqué announced their split after 12 years together, the songstress has been candid about dealing with heartbreak.

“This is really hard to talk about personally, especially as this is the first time I’ve ever addressed this situation in an interview,” the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer told Elle in a September 2022 profile. “I’ve remained quiet and just tried to process it all. … It’s hard to talk about it, especially because I’m still going through it, and because I’m in the public eye and because our separation is not like a regular separation.”

Shakira and the former FC Barcelona athlete, who began dating in 2011, announced three months earlier that they had separated.

“We regret to confirm that we are separating,” the now-exes — who never married amid their longtime relationship — wrote in a joint statement in June 2022. “For the wellbeing of our children, who are our highest priority, we ask that you respect their privacy.”

Shakira and Piqué — who share sons Milan, born in 2013, and Sasha, born in 2015 — made headlines earlier that month after the soccer star was accused of having an affair. The twosome did not address the claims at the time nor note if the accusations contributed to their decision to separate.

The Spain native has since moved on with Clara Chia, a college student styling public relations, who is 12 years his junior. The new couple were first spotted together at a Dani Martín concert in August 2022, where they were photographed packing on the PDA. Piqué and the model later made their Instagram debut in January 2023.

The Dancing With Myself judge, who was previously linked to lawyer Antonio de la Rúa between 2000 and 2010, has not publicly addressed the new couple. However, several of her social media uploads and recent music releases have seemingly alluded to how she’s coping in light of the news.

“I’m not coming back here, I don’t want another disappointment / So much that you pretend to be a champion / And when I needed you, you gave your worst version,” Shakira crooned in her “BZRP Music Session #53” single in Spanish, which dropped weeks before the athlete made his romance Instagram official. “Sorry, baby, it’s been a while / I should have thrown that cat away / A she-wolf like me ain’t for a rookie.”

While the Colombia native did not reveal her lyrical inspiration, the lyrics hint that she feels that Chia is her “supposed replacement.”

Neither Piqué nor Chia have addressed the “She Wolf” performer’s cryptic messages.

Scroll below for Shakira’s most cryptic messages that are seemingly about her ex’s new relationship:

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‘Tough’ to Deal With Split

“It’s been tough not only for me, but also for my kids,” the “Waka Waka” singer told Elle three months after the breakup. “Incredibly difficult. … I’ve tried to conceal the situation in front of my kids. I try to do it and to protect them because that’s my number one mission in life. But then they hear things in school from their friends or they come across some disagreeable, unpleasant news online, and it just affects them, you know?”


She added: “This is probably the darkest hour of my life. But then I think about all those women around the world who are going through hardship, who are going through a situation as bad as mine or as difficult as mine or worse.”

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Trampling Hearts

Shakira uploaded an October 2022 video of a mystery man stepping on an anatomical model of a heart as she reached out to protect it. She also added a cryptic caption in Spanish, writing: “I never said anything but it hurt. I knew this would happen?”

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No One’s Fault

“It was not your fault or mine either / It was the fault of the monotony,” the former Voice coach sang in Spanish on her “Monotonia” single later that October, seemingly referring to the split. “I never said anything, but it hurt / I knew this would happen.”

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His ‘Worst Version’

Shakira’s “BZRP Music Session #53,” a collaboration with DJ Bizarrap, seemingly tosses shade at Piqué and Chia.

“You thought you’d hurt me, but you made me tougher,” she belted in Spanish. “No hard feelings, baby, I wish you the best with my supposed replacement.”

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Navigating Heartbreak

“Although our wounds continue to be open in this new year, time has surgeon’s hands,” the “Wherever, Whenever” performer penned in Spanish via Instagram. “Even if someone has betrayed us, we have to keep trusting. In the face of contempt, keep valuing yourself. Because there are more good people than bad people. More empathetic people than indolent people. There are fewer who leave and more who stay by our side.”

She continued: “Our tears are not a waste, they water the soil where the future will be born and make us more human, so in the midst of heartbreak we can continue to love.”

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No Longer Crying

One day after the soccer defender hard-launched his new relationship, Shakira got cryptic as she uploaded a video of herself dancing.

“Women don’t cry anymore, women dance merengue,” she wrote in Spanish.

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Help From SZA

Shakira shared a not-so-cryptic post on Valentine's Day, lip-syncing to SZA's "Kill Bill" while mopping the floor. "I might kill my ex, not the best idea," the songstress mouthed via Instagram. "His new girlfriend's next, how'd I get here?"

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'Hotter,' 'Tougher' and 'Lighter'

“You are no longer welcome here,” Shakira sang in "TQG," her collaboration with Karol G released in February 2023. “I saw what your girlfriend threw at me / It doesn’t make me angry / I laughed.” Later in the track, Shakira said that she's “much hotter, much tougher, much lighter" after her split. “My love, you really distanced yourself,” she added. “And I can’t see so far away, baby.”

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Throwing Shade?

The Grammy winner seemingly slammed Chia during a February 2023 interview with Mexican journalist Enrique Acevedo.

“There is a place in hell reserved for women who don’t support other women,” Shakira said while addressing her split from Pique.

The "Te Felicito" singer also stated that she has "more confidence" after the breakup.

“I’ve always been emotionally quite dependent on men. I’ve fallen in love with love and I think I’ve been able to understand that story from another perspective and today I am sufficient on my own,” she shared. “When a woman has to face life’s battles, she comes out stronger.”

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A ‘Rough’ Breakup

“The thing with this song is it has become an anthem for so many women out there. I've had a very rough year after my separation, and writing this song has been so important to me,” Shakira confessed during a March 2023 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon about her single "Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53,” that dropped two months earlier. “It's been a healthy way to channel my emotions.”

She continued at the time: “After we put out this song, I really felt like I don't even have fans out there. I have a sisterhood of women who have been through the same things that I have been through, who think the way I think, who feel the way I feel, who had to put up with so much crap the way I had to.”

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Stronger Than She Knows

Shakira seemingly touched on her split from the athlete while accepting Billboard's first Woman of the Year award at the inaugural Latin Women in Music gala in May 2023. "This has been a year of seismic change in my life where I've felt more than ever — and very personally — what it is to be a woman," she told the crowd. "It's been a year where I've realized we women are stronger than we think, braver than we believed, more independent than we were taught to be. Because what woman hasn't at some time in her life forgotten herself because she's seeking the attention and love of someone else? It happened to me, more than once." "But there comes a time in the life of every woman where she no longer depends on someone else to love and accept herself just as she is," she continued. "A time when the search for someone else is replaced by the search for oneself. A time when the desire to be perfect is replaced by the desire to be authentic, and where finding someone who is faithful is less important than being faithful to ourselves."