How a jar of jam led to Shakira uncovering Gerard Pique’s unfaithfulness and other moments from her interview

They say that football players shouldn’t read reviews of their performances after games, and perhaps the same should be said about watching interviews with ex-partners. At least in the case of Barcelona footballer Gerard Pique, who was slammed during a tell-all interview with his ex, popstar Shakira, during an interview overnight with Las Estrellas in Mexico.

Of the choice cuts of tea-spilling that Shakira undertook during her interview with journalist Enrique Acevedo was how she discovered that Pique, her partner of 11 years, was being unfaithful to her - through an innocent jar of jam.

Shakira explained that she discovered that a jar of strawberry jam that was in the couple’s fridge had been eaten and that the pair’s children (Sasha and Milan) did not like eating it - meaning that someone else had been in the house with Pique while Shakira and the children were away.

That would then explain the use of a head in a fridge in the music video for Shakira’s single, Te Felicito, released in January 2023. The song has also been referred to as a diss track to Pique’s new love interest, Clara Chia Marti, after the couple went public with their relationship last month - as allegations of cheating between Pique and Clara continue.

That allegation has certainly not been lost on Shakira, who during the interview stated that “there is a place in hell reserved for women who don’t support other women" concerning the cheating allegations that compound Pique and Clara’s relationship thus far.

The interview wasn’t a pile-on situation regarding the foibles of Pique and Clara, with Shakira instead demonstrating a mature approach to the break up - one that revitalised her form of female empowerment. “I bought that story, that a woman needed a man to complete herself. I also had that dream of a family where the children had a mum and dad under the same roof.”