Speaking to Elle a 12 months in the past, her first interview addressing her breakup, Shakira defined why her scenario was significantly sophisticated.
“It is laborious to speak about it, particularly as a result of I am nonetheless going by way of it,” she mentioned, “and since I am within the public eye and since our separation isn’t like a daily separation. And so it has been robust not just for me, but additionally for my children. Extremely troublesome.”
Paparazzi would not depart them alone, she continued, and she or he tried to defend Milan and Sasha as a lot as she may.
“However then,” she added, “they hear issues at school from their buddies or they arrive throughout some unpleasant, disagreeable information on-line, and it simply impacts them, you recognize?…It is actually upsetting for 2 children who’re making an attempt to course of their dad and mom’ separation. And typically I simply really feel like that is all a nasty dream and that I’ll get up in some unspecified time in the future. However no, it is actual.”