“Obviously, I’ve heard it, but I don’t want to talk about it”, answered Gerard Piqué to Jordi Baste’s question about Shakira and Bizarrap’s song in which the singer attacks him, his family and his new partner. Yesterday the ex-footballer went to the RAC1 studios to be interviewed on the leading radio program in Catalonia. It’s been nine months since Piqué and Shakira announced their separation. During all this time, the Colombian artist has granted three interviews (the last one was on Friday with Jimmy Fallon) and has explained herself in four songs (Te felicito, Monotonía, TQG and Bizarrap). Gerard Piqué, for his part, had not spoken beyond a few jokes in the Kings League chats, hence the expectation that had raised his presence on El món a RAC1.
Although he did not want to talk about the song, he took advantage of the question asked by his friend Basté to comment on the behavior of separated couples when there are children in the middle: “People have a responsibility, especially those who are parents , to try to protect our children. I don’t want to say anything about it, everyone makes the decisions they think are appropriate and I don’t want to talk more about the subject, since I think that in the end the only thing that matters is that my children are well”, he concluded. Without a doubt, it is an indirect gesture towards the singer for the attacks he directs at her, given that he is still the father of the two children they have in common, Milan (10) and Sasha (8), and because of how they both expose the kids.
“I always like him to participate in things that make him happy – said Piqué-. It wasn’t planned for him to go out, but he asked me and I was delighted. And I’m proud of how he did it. But that’s it, everyone makes the decisions that seem best to them. When we grow up, there isn’t a lesson in class about how to be a parent.”
Despite the fact that he was very measured in all the answers, Piqué did not refuse any subject, not even that of Dani Alves, in provisional prison since January 20 for the alleged rape of a woman in a nightclub in Barcelona: “It is a very complicated case. I have a lot of affection for him, because I know him personally. For all of us who have been his companions, he is fucked. Justice has to do its job, I think we have to wait, because the easiest thing these days is to say that he is guilty. I prefer to wait and obey what the judge says. Helping the victim during the process, and nothing… It’s very complicated. As an ex-partner, it makes you feel like you know him and then you don’t, and you’re in a state of shock. It’s a slice of reality. In the event that it is true, I would be very harsh”, he said forcefully.
Finally, Piqué spoke about the personal moment he is living: “Very well and happy”, and made it clear that the relationship with Clara Chía is consolidated. Jordi Basté asked him about the enigmatic phrase “Sometimes loving means letting go”, which he uttered on the night of his farewell at the Camp Nou, at the beginning of November: “It summed up my state of mind well. A lot of things were happening in my life, not only professionally, and you realize that sometimes you have to make the best decision for your environment. Stopping playing for Barça is not something that I wanted, but I understood that I had to. It came naturally.”
