Shakira’s life has completely changed in less than a year. In a short time, she has separated from ex-soccer player Gerard Piqué and has seen how the father of her two children remade her life with Clara Chía, a 24-year-old from Barcelona. Now, the Colombian singer lives in Miami and not in the Catalan capital. And as if that were not enough, she has had to take close care of her parents, especially William Mebarak, who has significant health problems.
Almost nothing ties her to Spain, except her pending trial with the Tax Agency. She already said it in her session with Bizarrap: “You left my mother-in-law as a neighbor. With the press at the door and the debt in the Treasury.” The date indicated in the calendar, the month of November, when the judicial process will begin.
A few months after the trial, El País has had access to Shakira’s statement in the courtroom of Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona), where she testified in 2019 for the alleged fraud of 14.5 million to the Treasury.
In that appearance, the singer maintained that she did not come to reside permanently in Spain, so she did not have the obligation to pay taxes in our country. “I was a nomad, a person without roots or stability. I have traveled at such an intense pace that I have been in three countries in the same day. It is one of the highest prices I have had to pay for my career,” he said. , according to this medium.
“I start going out with him and, if I have a little free time, I prefer to go see him and not go to the Bahamas to find my ex,” explained the Colombian, trying to justify why she did not go to that house during the period in which who would have incurred in a crime of tax fraud.
Shakira tried to go through Barcelona whenever she could, because that way she “appeased Piqué’s jealousy”, which she called normal because she didn’t have a consolidated relationship yet.
The birth of her first child did not link her to Barcelona either, because, according to her statement, she works up to 12 hours pregnant outside of Spain, “although it was not something very normal.”
In addition, Piqué’s professional future was up in the air, because his continuity at Barcelona was not clear. In this story, to which El País has had access, the singer assures that the center-back had a tense relationship with the then coach Pep Guardiola: “Gerard had a rather complicated relationship with Barça. With Guardiola he had a super-tense relationship, from ‘te You go or I go.’ It was a situation that made him suffer a lot.”
According to this version, Piqué would have even considered leaving Barcelona and returning to Manchester United, but then there was a replacement on the bench with the arrival of Luis Enrique Martínez.
