Shakira, who shares kids Milan, 9, and Sasha, 7 with the sports star, explained that she was dealing with the breakup astir the aforesaid clip her father William Mebarak Chadid was hospitalized.

"Everything happened astatine once," she shared successful an interrogation translated from Spanish. "My location was falling apart. I was uncovering retired done the property that I had been betrayed portion my dada was successful the ICU."

Although the "She Wolf" artist's dada has since recovered, it was a "very hard and slow" journey.

"He has overcome COVID once, 2 accidents, 1 pneumonia and 5 surgeries—all of this astatine 91 years of age, successful little than six months," she noted. "My dada is the biggest illustration of resilience, and my parent has been by his broadside time and night. They person some been a reflection of that imagination that didn't travel existent for me. But I anticipation they are relation models for my kids of love, of patience successful relationships, of implicit devotion and zest for life." 

Shakira and Gerard announced their breakup successful June 2022 aft being unneurotic for much than a decade. And portion the Grammy victor has been candid astir dealing with heartbreak, she's besides grown from the experience.

"This has been a twelvemonth of seismic alteration successful my beingness wherever I've felt much than ever and precise personally what it is to beryllium a women," she said astatine Billboard's Latin Women successful Music gala connected May 6, per Billboard. "It's been a twelvemonth wherever I've realized, we, women are stronger than we think, braver than we believed, much autarkic than we were taught to be."