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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Madonna Continues To Fire Back

As Madonna goes home empty handed from the MTV Europe Music Awards, she continues her campaign to clear the air surrounding her adoption of baby David.

In yet another sit-down with the media, the pop superstar explained why she thinks she hasn't been able to catch a break when it comes to the public scrutiny surrounding her decision to adopt 13-month-old David Banda from southeast Africa.

"I don't think people really give a s--t," Madonna says in Time magazine's Nov. 13 issue. "But when you throw in things like I'm a celebrity and I somehow got special treatment, or make the implication of kidnapping, it gets mixed into a stew and it sells lots of papers.

"But care? People don't care and the media certainly doesn't care. What they should care about is that there are over a million orphans in Malawi, and following me around is just a gross misappropriation of attention and money.

"It's just kind of a cocktail for disaster in terms of media perception."

Madonna got little media attention during her Confession tour earlier this year while trying to bring attention to the plight of African orphans, adopting a mock-crucifixion pose during her shows finale while a ticker behind her counted to 12 million the number of children on the continent orphaned by AIDS.

Headlines in the news focused instead on her tour of Rome and how people would react to the mock-crucifixion in the holy city. Kinda like going to the White House to talk about children orphaned by AIDS and taking a bomb with you to meet the President.

The Confession tour only created another controversy. Religious groups all over the globe protested the religious imagery, calling it blasphemy and speculating whether Madonna was in the middle of a spiritual crisis.

"Which is better," says Madonna, "that I found out about an issue and instantly wanted to take action, or that it took me years to get my s--t together? Look, I could have joined the U.N. and become an ambassador and visited various countries and just kind of showed up and smiled. But that's not getting to the root of the problem, and by the way, neither is building orphan care centers and giving people food and medicine. But it's a start."

"There is a part of me that is secretly enjoying pissing people off, because I know that when you're pissing people off you're often doing the right thing," "What I hope I'm doing better now than I used to do is picking the right battles to fight, and not just being provocative for the sake of being provocative."

Speaking to those who have accused her of using her shiny celebrity scissors to cut through government red tape, Madonna said that she has never worked so hard for something in her life and has never been given such a hard time.

After taking David to a clinic in Malawi so he could be treated for pneumonia, "I just kept thinking, Oh, god, I don't want to get too attached because what if it doesn't happen?" Madonna recalled. "It was all very strange and weird, and I'd go to bed every night and think, Okay, whether someone else ends up looking after him or you end up looking after him, he's better off now than he was - So the idea that people think I got a shortcut or an easy ride is absolutely ridiculous."

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