Back at the beginning of last year, Gerard Pique and Shakira were considered one of the happiest married couples in the world of show business, and now they have become implacable enemies who are trying to prick and stab each other at every opportunity.
However, the conflict of the former lovers only benefits their careers: they turned their separation into a real show that positively affects the popularity and income of both.
Piqué and Shakira met in 2010 while filming a video for the song Waka Waka before the World Cup in South Africa and have been inseparable ever since.
For the sake of her husband, the Colombian gave up her career, moved to Spain and gave birth to two sons.
She rejoiced at Gerard's victories with Barcelona and on social networks called him the best defender on the planet.
Their happiness lasted until the summer of 2022, when the singer allegedly caught her husband in bed with another girl, 23-year-old student Clara Chia Marti.
There were rumors about the football player's adventures before, but this case seems to have become the last straw in the couple's relationship.
In early June, Shakira announced her breakup with Piqué.
A long and painful legal process began for the guardianship of children and the division of property.
On top of that, the Spanish prosecutor's office accused the singer of non-payment of taxes in the amount of €14.5 million. As the artist later noted, this period turned out to be the darkest in her life.
The entire family, including the boys, was hounded by the paparazzi, her family relationships were devalued by the press.
In the matter of the sons, the court ultimately sided with the mother.
It is planned that in 2023 Milan and Sasha will move with the artist to Miami.
Piqué will be able to see them as many times as he wants, and the former spouses will pay for flights together.
Of course, this is not what the Spaniard wanted.
But many experts predicted such an outcome of the case: Gerard ruined his reputation by betrayal, although he was supported by the team.
So the court's decision did not come as a surprise to the footballer, who, even before the verdict was passed, managed to annoy his ex-wife again.
At the end of his farewell match for Barcelona with Almeria (2: 0), he openly kissed a new girl on cameras.
At the same time, Shakira and the children were in the stands at that moment.
The artist specifically brought her sons to the meeting so that they would be with their father at an important moment for him to end his sports career.
It would seem that the story should have ended there.
The singer, after parting with her husband, plunged into creativity and began to prepare the first album in many years.
Piqué tried to reform the rules of football.
He stated that the sport as a product was outdated, suggested reducing the duration of matches, returning the golden goal rule and a number of other know-hows.
However, he was ridiculed by his colleagues and decided to create a kind of media league in Spain - the Kings League.
The project was successful and now competes in terms of views with La Liga matches.
However, the gap seems to have been too painful for the former spouses to stay in the past for both: on January 12, Shakira released a music track recorded in the studio of the famous Argentine DJ and producer Bizarrap.
In the text of the song, riddled with pain and anger, the name Pique is never mentioned, but it is easy to guess who the performer is addressing.
She assures that she will no longer return to the former, no matter how much he asks.
He invites him to pump not only muscles, but also brains, and also compares himself with Chia Marti, to whom he left: “I am worth two 22-year-olds.
You traded a Ferrari for a Renault Twingo, a Rolex for a Casio,” the song says.
Shakira's track did two things at once.
On the one hand, the pop star once again hooked Pique and his girlfriend.
On the other hand, it broke the Spanish YouTube record.
In the first day, the video of the singer and DJ Bizarrap gained 50 million views and bypassed Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Justin Bieber.
The former Barcelona defender did not remain "indebted" and reacted with humor to the angry composition.
A few days after the release of the track, Pique, during a stream on social networks, announced the media league's partnership with the Casio brand.
He came to the event in a new watch and noted that they are of very high quality and will serve him "for the rest of his life."
And then Gerard arrived at his office in a new car, a white Renault Twingo.
The football player got out of the car with a radiant smile: it was immediately clear that he was clearly pleased with his trick.
The behavior of the former spouse again hurt Shakira.
She decided to go further and had Piquet's parents listen to her track, turning up the music at full volume in her mansion.
The fact is that the Colombian has not yet moved to the USA: the 91-year-old father of the artist is in one of the hospitals in Barcelona, so the pop star still lives in a house next to her ex-husband's family.
By the way, there are also several lines in the song about this: “You left me to live next door to my mother-in-law, with the press at the door and tax debts.
You thought you hurt me, but you only made me stronger."
And in order to annoy Pique even more, Shakira put a witch puppet on her balcony, which looks at the house of the football player's parents.
The former mother-in-law did not like it very much, and she even asked the singer's close associates to turn the toy in the other direction.
According to local journalists, the woman is worried that the Colombian has performed some kind of spiritual rite on her family.
It seems that Pique will not stand aside, and, remembering Casio and Renault, the fans should again expect something epic.
True, it is better for the Spaniard not to disperse much, otherwise an angry Shakira can tell reporters not only about a jar of her favorite strawberry jam that someone ate while the singer was on tour, but also other spicy stories.