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Shakira says she’s ‘proud to be Latin America’ after Piqué diss
The Columbian singer claps back at Piqué after recently moving out from the Barcelona home they shared.
Shakira is clapping back after her ex Gerard Piqué made a comment about her Latin American fans in a recent interview. The former Spanish professional football player has been under immense media scrutiny ever since his highly publicized split with his ex-wife Shakira in June 2022.
Over the weekend, Piqué sat down for an interview with YouTuber Gerard Romero, where the two discussed how Piqué has been handling the criticism since the split from the Colombian singer.
“In the beginning, it was bad and it reached a point where if I had let things get to me, I would have thrown myself off a cliff,” he confessed in his native Spanish language. He also added that it was his laid-back attitude that saved his mental health.
The former soccer star continued to talk about how “95 percent” of people’s issues arise when they “tend to care about things that aren’t that important.” In his opinion, the only things worth worrying about are “serious health issues, family, and relationships.”
Calling out Shakira
“For example, my ex is Latin American … you can’t imagine [the comments] I’ve gotten on social media from her fans. Millions of barbarities!” Piqué told Romero during the interview.
He continued, “But I don’t care about any of it. Honestly, not at all because I don’t know them. These people have no lives and why should I care? I’ll never meet them, they’re robots, you know?”
Piqué added that his nonchalant attitude “is healthy because if you care about people’s opinions, you’re dead.”
“They want you to worry and when you do, they would have won. You have to show them that you don’t care because it gets them angrier,” he went on to explain.
Shakira’s response
Shortly after the interview aired, Shakira took to Twitter to seemingly respond to her ex-husband’s diss. On April 2, the ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ singer tweeted “Proud to be Latin American,” along with several Latin American country’s flag emojis.
The couple shares two sons together, Milan, 10, and Sasha, 8. Just earlier today, Shakira posted a farewell message to Barcelona on her Instagram account, the couple shared a home there together before the split.
“I settled in Barcelona to give my sons stability, the same that we are now looking for in another corner of the world besides family, friends, and the sea. Today, we started a new chapter in the search for happiness,” The English translation of her farewell post reads.