Now that the whole world knows that Shakira has gotten over – or not – the breakup with Gerard Piqué, it may be a good time to remember that there was a time when the pink press dealt with other painful separations. From each the protagonists came out in different ways. But what is clear is that they all surpassed them.
The news of the breakup of one of Hollywood’s most attractive couples, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, fell like a bombshell. It was 2005, they had been together for seven years and he crossed paths with Angelina Jolie. The Friends star later admitted that focusing on work helped her overcome the loss. “There are many stages of pain. It’s sad that things are ending. It breaks you into a thousand pieces and you discover your vulnerability. When you try to avoid the pain it’s 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 didn’t watch me. I try to visualize myself above my problems whether yes or no”, he reflected. Then Brad Pitt starred in another famous breakup with Angelina Jolie. He took refuge in a studio to devote himself to sculpting, and she focused on her humanitarian work and work.
With insults and calling each other “retarded”, Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie ended their separation in 2008. And Gwyneth Paltrow was much more civilized 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,” he wrote. The creator of Goop advises getting rid of grudges: “The purpose 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.”
Other wise advice was from 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. Don’t force them”; and of Nicole Kidman, when she separated 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. As my father used to say to me: ‘Nic, it is what it is, it is not what it should be, nor what it could be, it is what it is'”. Melanie Griffith, in addition to erasing the famous tattoo with the name of Antonio (Banderes), took the opportunity to enroll in a writing course.
Actor Ashton Kutcher, who filed for divorce from Demi Moore in 2013, overcame the trance by isolating himself in the mountains of Montana, where he took a seven-day spiritual retreat that included fasting. During that time he wrote a letter to every person he had a conflicted relationship with.
Among the most recent ruptures, three stand out. Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady closed theirs in a very discreet way. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, embroiled in a long media battle with attacks and threats since they announced their divorce in 2021, after nine years of relationship, could have noticed. “I feel like a failure, it’s my third marriage and I feel very bad. I can’t even think about it, I just want to be happy,” she admitted on her reality show. He, who did not accept divorce, has already married another woman. Finally, singer Miley Cyrus and actor Liam Hemsworth, who married in 2018 after several years of on-and-off dating, officially split in 2020. He hasn’t said anything and she — Shakira-style, but more elegant – he composed the song Flowers, in which he does not mention it and uses it to send a powerful message of self-love. Ways to turn sheet.
