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Shakira addresses rumor she discovered ex Gerard Piqué’s alleged cheating via a jam jar

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Shakira’s lips don’t lie.

The singer reacted to a viral January 2023 report that claimed a jam jar alerted her to her ex Gerard Piqué’s alleged infidelity.

More than one year after ShowNews Today reported that Shakira had grown suspicious after coming home from a trip to find fruit spread — which the soccer star and their sons allegedly do not like — missing from its container, she finally told the Sunday Times that the story is “not true.”

Shakira and Gerard Piqué
Shakira denied discovering ex Gerard Piqué’s cheating because of a jam jar. REUTERS
Shakira and Gerard Piqué
The singer broke her silence more than one year after the rumor spread. Europa Press via Getty Images
Shakira
She insisted the scandalous story is “not true.” GC Images

The Grammy winner, 47, even acted as if she didn’t know what the interviewer was “talking about” when asked about the headlines, according to the profile.

Shakira neglected to address the speculation last year, instead bashing Piqué, 37, and his girlfriend, Clara Chia Marti, in songs including “TQG” and “BZRP Music Session #53.”

The dancer gushed in Sunday’s interview about how “good” it felt to write about her split for her upcoming album, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran.”

Shakira and Gerard Piqué
The duo revealed their split in the summer of 2022. Instagram/Shakira
Shakira and Gerard Piqué
Shakira met the professional soccer player in 2010. Getty Images
Shakira and Gerard Piqué with sons Milan and Sasha
They share sons Milan and Sasha. Getty Images

“It helped me exorcise a lot of the demons that were tormenting me,” she explained to the British newspaper, adding that she had “put [her] career on hold” during her relationship with Piqué.

Shakira started dating the professional soccer player in 2010, and the pair welcomed sons Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9, in 2013 and 2015, respectively.

The former couple’s eldest son also has written cathartic music since his parents’ 2022 separation, which Shakira believes would bring fans “to tears.”

Clara Chia Marti and Gerard Piqué
Piqué is in a relationship with Clara Chia Marti. 3gerardpique/Instagram
Gerard Piqué
Amid criticism, he insisted he doesn’t “care what people think.” AFP via Getty Images

As for Milan and Sasha’s reaction to her own songs about Piqué, Shakira said, “They know that there’s only one way to live life and it’s accepting the pain. And each one of us has different ways of doing that.

“I felt that there was still something there, stuck in my throat,” she continued elsewhere in the interview. “I needed to get it out.”

The songwriter, who has been linked to F1 driver Lewis Hamilton and actor Tom Cruise since her breakup, also hinted at her dating future.

Shakira
Shakira slams her ex and his partner on her upcoming album. WireImage
Shakira and sons Milan and Sasha
Her eldest son has also written music about Shakira and Piqué’s separation. shakira/Instagram

“It’s probably a really bad idea for an artist to hook up with an athlete,” she said, explaining that “empathy is key in an artist’s work” while an athlete “is in a constant state of war and has to avoid empathy at all costs.”

When asked whether she will avoid dating athletes down the line, Shakira replied, “I don’t know what I need.”

Piqué, for his part, appears to still be going strong with his 25-year-old girlfriend, insisting in April 2023 that he does not “care about people’s opinions.”

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