Shakira feels she will not find love again after a bitter break up with Gerard Piqué

It has been two years since her split from Gerard Piqué but Shakira still is unsure about what her future love life is going to be. In a recent interview, Shakira explained that following her break up with Gerard, she is prioritising ‘friendship’ over everything else.

Gerard and Shakira broke up after being together for 12 years. They share two sons, Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9.

“I think friendship lasts longer than love,” Shakira said to Zane Lowe in an interview for Apple Music 1. “Though I still think experiencing love, fully experiencing it with all its peaks and valleys, it’s so essential to the human life.”

The 47-year-old continued, “I love love, but I think I even love friendship a little bit more. Because I thought love would be there forever for me. And that’s one of my, you know, broken dreams. Perhaps I will. I don’t know if I’ll like find that again. Probably not. Well, I don’t know. But friendship, I have.”

Shakira stated that she had not valued frienships earlier and had put being in a relationship first.

“I wasn’t one of those people who valued friendship as much. I’ve always valued family and having a partner in a couple. I’ve always been in a couple,” she explained.

“But then when that wasn’t there, and when I lost my boys and when I had to face the darkest and the hardest moments of my life, friends were there and they kept me together,” Shakira continued.