Shakira breaks the silence after her breakup with Gérard Piqué: "I had a very difficult year"

Solène Delinger 1:58 p.m., March 13, 2023

The year 2022 will certainly have been

Shakira's annus

… The Colombian star has indeed separated from her companion Gérard Piqué after learning that he has been cheating on her for more than a year with Clara Marti, a 23-year-old student. years.

The footballer brought the young woman back to her family home when Shakira was away for concerts.

Devastated, the Colombian singer filed for divorce, and fought for custody of her two children, Sasha, 7, and Milan, 9.

"A wolf like me is not made for a guy like you"

Invited on the set of Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show" on Friday March 10, 2023, Shakira once again spoke of her breakup with the father of her children.

"I had a very difficult year after my separation," admitted the interpreter of

eyes filled with tears.

The singer also returned to what prompted her to record her "revenge song" 

in which she frontally attacks Gérard Piqué.

"A wolf like me is not made for beginners, a wolf like me is not made for a guy like you. You left me the mother-in-law for my neighbor, with the press at the door and debts to the taxman", she sings in this song which

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"I wrote this song for me but I also feel it was meant for other women"

Like Miley, Shakira needed to sing her anger and pain.

"It's a healthy way to channel my emotions," she says in front of Jimmy Fallon.

The star hopes her song could also help other women going through the same ordeal as her.

"I have a community of women who have been through the same things as me, who think like me, who feel what I feel, who have had to put up with so much bullshit like me", she assures before explaining: "I wrote this song for myself, but I also feel like it was meant for so many women who needed a platform and a voice to represent them in so many ways."

“I feel like this is all just a bad dream”

This is not the first time that Shakira has publicly mentioned her separation from Gérard Piqué.

In an interview with the American version of

last year, the singer had expressed all her bitterness.

"I can only say that I put everything I had into this relationship and my family. I put my career on the back burner and came to Spain, to support him so he could play football. “, had assured the star who had therefore “sacrificed” out of love for Gérard Piqué.

Today, Shakira is doing everything possible to preserve her two children, who are also very affected: "I tried to hide this situation in front of my children. I try to protect them, because it is my priority in life. They hear things at school from their friends or they come across unpleasant news online (…) I feel like it's all just

a bad dream and that I'm going to wake up at some point.

But no, it's real."