I still feel like this is all a bad dream: Shakira weighs in on breakup with Gerard

Colombian celeb Shakira vowed to fight what she claimed have been “false” accusations by Spanish authorities that she dodged 14.5 million euros ($14.31 million) in taxes, in her first public comments on a case that might see her despatched to prison for up to 8 years.

Shakira, 45, is dealing with trial in Spain accused of failing to pay taxes among 2012 and 2014, a duration in which she stated she was main a “nomadic life” because of her work.”I ought to fight for what I agree with due to the fact those are false accusations,” the ‘Hips do not lie’ singer instructed Elle mag in an interview posted on-line inside the United States on Wednesday and because of run in its October print version. “I owe 0 to them.”

The prosecutor’s record, seen by Reuters, asserts that Shakira spent greater than half of of each 12 months in Spain between 2012 and 2014, and in May 2012 sold a own family home in Barcelona. In July remaining year, a Spanish decide said he had visible “sufficient proof” for Shakira to stand trial. A 2nd decide rejected her attraction towards the decision in May.

Shakira, who in July rejected a deal with the prosecutor to settle the case, says the government handiest came after her “with their eyes at the prize” once they found out she become courting FC Barcelona football player Gerard Pique, who is Spanish. “While Gerard and I had been relationship, I was on a global tour. I spent more than 240 days out of doors of Spain, so there has been no way I certified as a resident,” she said.”The Spanish tax authorities noticed that I was relationship a Spanish citizen and started to salivate. It’s clean they desired to head after that cash no matter what,” the singer claimed.

Shakira brought that she had already paid what the Spanish tax workplace stated she owed before they filed a lawsuit. She said she changed into assured that she had behaved efficaciously and transparently from the start, suggesting the Spanish authorities “resorted to a salacious press campaign” to harm her reputation.

The mixture of her current separation from Pique, a custody conflict for their kids, the illness of her father and “fighting on specific fronts” intended she was dealing with “in all likelihood the darkest hour of my lifestyles,” the singer stated.On split with Gerard

The singer has now spoken up and shared how their kids are handling the breakup. “I’ve remained quiet and simply tried to process it all. And yeah, it is hard to talk approximately it, especially due to the fact I’m still going via it, and due to the fact I’m inside the public eye and our separation isn’t always like a everyday separation. And so it’s been tough not only for me however also for my children. Incredibly difficult,” E! News quoted Shakira as saying.

“I even have paparazzi tenting outside, in front of my residence, 24/7. And there is now not an area where I can cover from them with my kids, besides for my personal house. You understand, we can not take a stroll inside the park like a regular circle of relatives or go have an ice cream or do any hobby without the paparazzi following us. So it is difficult,” she delivered.

However, the Hips Don’t Lie crooner is doing her first-class to protect her kids from the breakup and the media interest. “I try to do it and to defend them due to the fact that is my number one task in life. But then they listen things in college from their pals or they come across a few disagreeable, ugly information on-line, and it simply influences them, you know?” Shakira continued.

The breakup, but, is still hard to digest for Shakira. “Sometimes, I still experience like that is all a horrific dream and that I’m going to awaken in some unspecified time in the future.” Talking about her dating with the football famous person, she said, “It’s actual and what is additionally actual is the frustration to see something as sacred and as unique as I notion become the connection I had with my youngsters’ father and spot that was some thing vulgarised and cheapened through the media.”