Talking to Elle a yr ago, her first interview addressing her breakup, Shakira explained why her situation was particularly complicated.
“It’s hard to discuss it, especially because I’m still going through it,” she said, “and since I’m in the general public eye and since our separation is just not like an everyday separation. And so it has been tough not just for me, but in addition for my kids. Incredibly difficult.”
Paparazzi would not leave them alone, she continued, and she or he tried to shield Milan and Sasha as much as she could.
“But then,” she added, “they hear things in class from their friends or they arrive across some unpleasant, unpleasant news online, and it just affects them, you already know?…It’s really upsetting for 2 kids who try to process their parents’ separation. And sometimes I just feel like that is all a foul dream and that I will get up in some unspecified time in the future. But no, it’s real.”