Now that the whole world already knows how Shakira has overcome -or not- her break with Gerard Piqué, it may be a good moment to remember that there was a time when the tabloids dealt with other painful separations. From each of them, the protagonists came out in a different way. But what is clear is that they all got over it. We remember how some celebrities overcame their notorious and public sentimental failures.
The news of the breakup of one of the most attractive couples in Hollywood, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, fell like a bomb. It was 2005, they had been together for seven years and Angelina Jolie crossed his path.
The protagonist of Friends would later confess that focusing on work helped her get over the bump. “There are many stages of pain. It’s sad that things end. It breaks you into a thousand pieces and you discover your vulnerability. When you try to avoid the pain is worse. I am human and having a human experience in front of the eyes of the world watching you is difficult. I wish the world wasn’t watching me. I try to visualize myself above my problems at all costs,” she mused.
Later, Brad Pitt starred in another well-known break with Angelina Jolie. He took refuge in a studio to dedicate himself to sculpting; and she focused on her humanitarian efforts and work.
With clean insults and calling each other “sentimental retards”, Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie settled their separation in 2008.
And much more civilized has been Gwyneth Paltrow with her exes. It was the actress who used the term “conscious uncoupling” to describe her divorce from Chris Martin, after ten years of marriage and two children together. “I came to understand that forgiving means taking responsibility for your half of the relationship,” she wrote. “You cannot begin to forgive until you have felt what it is like to be in your partner’s shoes, dealing with the most difficult parts of you, your trauma, your dysfunction.”
The creator of Goop advises getting rid of the grudge: “The goal of a breakup, if you have to go through it, is to grow. Take the opportunity to really look at yourself and heal broken patterns so you don’t find yourself in the same situation again.” And she concludes that to achieve a positive separation it is necessary to recognize the things that you loved about your ex-partner: “Love all those wonderful parts of them. They still exist, they can still make you feel what you felt for that person.”
Other wise advice came from the mouth of Vanessa Paradis, who broke up with Johnny Depp in 2012: “Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life. Nothing is certain and nothing is taken for granted, but when things don’t flow from the start, they will never work. Do not force it”; and of Nicole Kidman, when she split from Tom Cruise in 2001: “I’m not sure what the future holds for me, but I’ll try to be as positive as possible and not let despair get the better of me. Like my dad used to tell me, “Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should, or what it could, it is what it is.”
Melanie Griffith, in addition to erasing the famous tattoo with the name of Antonio (Banderas), took the opportunity to enroll in a writing course.
The actor Ashton Kutcher, who signed the divorce with Demi Moore in 2013, overcame the trance by isolating himself in the mountains of Montana, where he made a seven-day spiritual retreat with fasting included. During that time he wrote a letter to everyone with whom he had a troubled relationship. Demi Moore reproached Kutcher for forcing her to have threesomes, for being unfaithful and for making her relapse into his alcoholism.
Among the advice that some celebrities have given on how to get over a breakup, it-girl Alex Chung recommends not getting carried away by the urge to cut your hair, something that many do after a breakup. “Hair is related to how we feel at all times and everyone wants to do something radical after a breakup, but it’s better not to touch your hair.” And she pleads to buy a lipstick. “Go and kiss a lot of people, but don’t touch your fucking hair.”
Among the most recent ruptures three stand out. Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady closed theirs in a very discreet way on the part of both. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West could have taken note of them, locked in a long media battle with direct attacks and threats since they announced their divorce in February 2021, after nine years of relationship. “I feel like a failure, it is my third marriage and I feel very bad. I can’t even think about it, I just want to be happy. I don’t want a husband like that, ”she admitted on her reality show. He, who did not accept the divorce, has already married another.
Finally, the singer Miley Cyrus and the actor Liam Hemsworth, who married in 2018 after several years of comings and goings, officially separated in 2020. He has not opened his mouth and she -in the Shakira style but more elegant- composed the song Flowers in which he does not name him and launches a powerful message of self-love. Ways to turn the page.
