The 49-year-old singer, talked openly about her and
husband GUY RITCHIE’s controversial battle to adopt
Malawian child David Banda, two.
Madonna said:
“It was painful and a big struggle and I didn’t understand it.
In the end I rationalised that when a woman goes through natural childbirth,
she suffers an enormous amount.
“I went through my own kind of birthing pains —
dealing with the press on my doorstep,
accusing me of kidnapping or whatever.
But I had to go through some kind of process
and in the end it made me stronger so I can’t complain.”
Madonna also hit back at accusations that David
was adopted without his father’s consent —
and that his mother had not really died of Aids.
She said:
“Yes his mother did die of Aids and yes,
I met his father and he absolutely agreed to the adoption.
“There is nothing controversial about the adoption.
It is just there’s a lot of bureaucracy and administration.
This adoption essentially was the beginning of the
creation of adoption laws in Malawi.”
She said she now sees herself as the
role model for future adoptions there.
Madonna was speaking at a press conference
about her new documentary I Am Because We Are —
which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.
The film, featuring David,
paints a stark picture of life in Malawi
and shows kids orphaned by Aids.
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Rash Manly 22moon.com
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