Shakira uses "Hard Year" following Gerard Piqué's split as the basis for a popular breakup song

Shakira used a personal struggle as inspiration for a song that fans want to hear all the time.

The singer of "Hips Don't Lie" recently discussed her 11-year relationship with Gerard Piqué and how it ended, as well as how it influenced her record-breaking collaboration with Bizarrap on "Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53."

She admitted during a March 10 interview on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" that "I've had a pretty tough year since my breakup" and that "creating this song has been very essential to me." It has served as a constructive outlet for my feelings.

It was mentioned during her participation on the chat program that the song, which has lyrics that ostensibly disparage Piqué and his new girlfriend Clara Chia Marti, had broken a whopping 14 Guinness World Records.

The 46-year-old shared that the song's success has made her feel as though her fanbase includes a "sisterhood" of women "who feel the way I feel, who had to put up with so much crap the way I had to."

As for how Shakira and Bizarrap collaborated? It started when Shakira realized that the Argentine DJ had entered her direct message box. But, Milan, Shakira and Piqué's 10-year-old son and the older of their two boys, had a vision even before Bizarapp and the "She Wolf" singer entered the studio.

"Mum, you've got to work with Bizarrap, he said to me. You two ought to collaborate on a song with Bizarrap because you two are going to be successful," "Shakira informed Jimmy Fallon, the host. "He also left my boss, Jaime, a voicemail. He advised, "You need to collaborate with my mom and Bizarrap on a song because they're going to be number one." He was correct, too."

The "Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" album by Shakira and Bizarrap was published in January, seven months after she and Gerard announced their breakup.

In an interview she gave to the Mexican channel Canal Estrellas on February 27, Shakira said, "After releasing the single into the world, "I utilize my voice and lend it to voiceless people. There is a specific place in hell for women who don't help others, as Madeline Albright stated, and I adore that expression. And I do agree with that completely."

Shakira revealed that while her life has altered as a result of their breakup, so to has her attitude.

"I too believed that story, that a woman needed a man to complete herself," she said. "I also had that dream to have a family where the kids had their mom and dad under the same roof. Not all of those dreams come true, but life has a way of compensating you in one way or another."