celeb news Shakira debuts hot new face, talks Piqué, taxes and new album for Elle Magazine

[crazyncool]

 

On her relationship ending:

 

I do want to ask about the dissolution of your relationship. Your ex-partner has been seen in a new relationship. It sounds like you did not want your relationship to end, and it was a surprise to you that the relationship was over. How did you come to understand that you weren’t going to be together anymore? 

I think that those details are somehow too private to share, at least at this very moment—everything is so raw and new. I can only say that I put everything I had into this relationship and my family. Before my kids started school, I had a really nomadic life—I had lived my entire existence as an artist, traveling non-stop, going to different places around the world, touring, doing shows, promotion, building schools in Colombia, and recording in different countries around the world. Even for the first few years of my relationship with Gerard and when I had my first son, Milan. I took him with me everywhere from the time he was 2 months old. I even remember breastfeeding him constantly on the set of The Voice.

 

On new music:

 

I have a full album’s worth of music that I’m so excited about. And some songs you’ll hear imminently, some are collaborations. Some are in English and some in Spanish, different genres. But I’m really, really thrilled about not only the body of work that I have right now to share with the people who are waiting for it, but also how gratifying the whole process has been for me. How therapeutic as well. I thought I was done with my album. But every time I get in the studio to do, like, one line or something, or to mix a song that’s almost ready to come out, then I end up with new music because I feel creative right now, and I feel that is an incredible outlet for me to make sense of things. 

 

On tax fraud allegations:

 

This isn’t the only challenge you’re facing. The Spanish government has accused you of tax fraud. You’re facing up to eight years in prison. They said you were a resident of Spain for tax purposes from 2011 to 2014, meaning for them that you spent over 183 days in the country. You decided to fight these accusations instead of settling with them. Why? 

[Sighs] Because I have to fight for what I believe; because these are false accusations. First of all, I didn’t spend 183 days per year at that time at all. I was busy fulfilling my professional commitments around the world. Second, I’ve paid everything they claimed I owed, even before they filed a lawsuit. So as of today, I owe zero to them. And finally, I was advised by one of the four biggest tax specialist firms in the world, PricewaterhouseCoopers, so I was confident that I was doing things correctly and transparently from day one.

 

However, even without evidence to support these fictional claims, as they usually do, they’ve resorted to a salacious press campaign to try to sway people, and apply pressure in the media along with the threat of reputational damage in order to coerce settlement agreements. It is well known that the Spanish tax authorities do this often not only with celebrities like me (or [Cristiano] Ronaldo, Neymar, [Xabi] Alonso, and many more), it also happens unjustly to the regular taxpayer. It’s just their style. But I’m confident that I have enough proof to support my case and that justice will prevail in my favor.

 

 

Edited September 21, 2022 by crazyncool

[Ricky Wilson]

“Heavily photoshopped face”

 

and of course she’s talking about Pique for clout

[Click Clack]

she looks great 

[Virgos Groove]

MADRE

[dopamina]

[dopamina]

[Breakthru]

Jaume is so wrong for those photos and the bad editing. Shakira, stop hiring him.

 

Otherwise, great interview, I didn't think she'd get this personal. Piqué is such a rat.

[Sharapov]

post the quotes or stop the clickbait

[Hector]

Stunning

[Virgos Groove]

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Once Milan started school, at the end of 2014, I knew that my constant travel and nomadic existence had to be put on the back burner and my career had to be put in second gear. I knew that when he started school I had to settle down, plant roots in Barcelona, and be there for him and for Gerard and then later on for Sasha as well. As a soccer player, he wanted to play football and to win titles and I had to support him. I mean, one of the two of us had to make a sacrifice, right? Either he would stop his contract with Barcelona and move to the U.S. with me, where my career is, or I would have to do that instead.

 

And so, one of the two had to make that effort and that sacrifice. And I did it. I put my career in second gear and I came to Spain, to support him so he could play football and win titles. And it was a sacrifice of love. Thanks to that, my kids were able to have a present mom, and I have this amazing bond with them that is unbreakable and that sustains us. You know, that is it. That’s all I can say.

 

[kandicha]

Getting with Piqué and upending her entire life for him was the biggest mistake she made in her life. 
 

Great interview and she comes off the bigger person speaking about him maturely despite everything that happened 

[Bloodflowers.]

okay, now post quotes or close this thread

[dopamina]

[Auraeolux]

25 minutes ago, Ricky Wilson said:

“Heavily photoshopped face”

 

and of course she’s talking about Pique for clout

she is shakira, you think she needs more clout??

[jadeabove]

The way she literally said she sacrificed 8 years of her life for him. The resentment.

 

I feel so bad for everything she has been put through. Shakira never had to face any public scandals, and now she is almost "drowned" by them, like she says. She is probably one of the most talented pop stars out there, and an incredible artist. I really hope she finds happiness again, and she seems to be on the road for that.

 

We are getting a break-up album for sure. 

Edited September 21, 2022 by jadeabove

[dopamina]

[GeeDuval]

 

love when everything falls into place. Thanks pique. Is good to see Shakira getting a little more JLo/Kardashian with her personal life. Even if it’s to promote a new era. 
 

why not? if others do it why can’t the queen of Latin music. 
 

 

[dopamina]

[Trent W]

27 minutes ago, Ricky Wilson said:

“Heavily photoshopped face”

 

and of course she’s talking about Pique for clout

Shakira is like 10x more famous than him

[dopamina]

[vuelve88]

29 minutes ago, Ricky Wilson said:

“Heavily photoshopped face”

 

and of course she’s talking about Pique for clout

You ran in here.  Shakira has always been more famous than Pique. lol. You're desperate. 

[Virgos Groove]

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Tell me about that. Who has been checking in on you? When you say colleagues, I imagine your colleagues are different from my colleagues.

 

[Laughs] Yeah. I’ve been pleasantly encountering an amazing, humane side to people, you know, people that I considered were in my life maybe because of the work that we do together. But no, these people really have an empathy and a heart that explains why they’ve been so loved by so many. For example, will.i.am. He regularly checks in with me, and one day he even sent me a beautiful prayer, praying for my kids and for me to find peace. Chris Martin is always checking in and telling me that he’s there for me, anything I need. Juan Luis Guerra. Alejandro Sanz. [Switches to Spanish] Dear friends who have become people who I believe don’t just care about me as an artist but as a person, as a human. [Back to English] Their support has made me feel that I might be alone, but I am not lonely. Sometimes a woman can be enough. I can be enough at this point for myself and for my family, for my kids.

Aww

[crazyncool]

24 minutes ago, Sharapov said:

post the quotes or stop the clickbait

Gurl I was driving! They’re there

[GeeDuval]

She looks the same to me…post break up stress skinny I guess rock on shaki 

[Shendelzare]

36 minutes ago, Ricky Wilson said:

 

and of course she’s talking about Pique for clout

This weirdo user when it comes to camila
 

 

17 hours ago, Ricky Wilson said:

So when she scores a global SMASHA, it's the man's power, but when a tv show bombs, it's the woman's fault?

 

The misogyny

LOSER