Shakira is ready for the next chapter of her life.

In what appears to be her first TV interview since separating from Gerard Piqué in June 2022, with whom she shares sons Milan, 10, and Sasha, 8, Shakira told Mexican journalist Enrique Acevedo about her recent heartbreak and how music helped her heal.

The 46-year-old singer expressed how this “has been an honest and brutal time” in her life, but that she has never felt so supported by her friends and fans.

“Not all dreams in life come true,” she said. “But life finds a way to make it up to you in some way.”

Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, said that she’s in love with the idea of love and confessed to previously being “emotionally dependent on men.” She also bought into the the fairy tale “that a woman needs a man to complete herself, a family.”

“Now I feel complete because I feel that I depend on myself and I also have two children that depend on me, so I have to be stronger than a lioness,” she added.

Shakira’s relationship with Piqué, who recently retired from playing professional soccer, recently made headlines after she released “BZRP Music Session #53” which many took as her revenge song. In the track, she sings about being too good for the person she used to be with and calls out his new girlfriend,

 Clara Chia Martí, even using her name in a play on words in the lyrics.

Shakira arrived at the 2014 ACM Awards in Las Vegas dressed in a skimpy creation from the Zuhair Murad Fall 2014 collection. The songstress wore a teal silk-jersey long-sleeved gown featuring an embroidered bodice with a sheer nude silk detail and black laddered-tights effect.

For her performance Shakira changed into a sexy red dress from the Kristian Aadnevik Fall 2014 collection. The corset inspired red mini dress was styled with over-the-knee boots and nude fishnet tights, and the Columbian singer sure did sizzle on stage.