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From Times Online
October 8, 2009
October 8, 2009
Film director Guy Ritchie sure knows how to make a girl feel special, describing his ex-wife Madonna as "retarded" moments after admitting he still loves her.
In an interview with Esquire magazine, Ritchie said: "And, of course, here you go: I still love her... But she's retarded, too."
Married at Skibo Castle in Scotland, the couple divorced last November after eight years of marriage. They have joint custody of sons Rocco, 9, and David Banda, 4. Madonna also has a daughter Lourdes, .12
Soon after the split Madonna moved from London to New York and began dating 22-year-old Brazilian model Jesus Luz.
In an interview with Esquire magazine, Ritchie said: "And, of course, here you go: I still love her... But she's retarded, too."
Married at Skibo Castle in Scotland, the couple divorced last November after eight years of marriage. They have joint custody of sons Rocco, 9, and David Banda, 4. Madonna also has a daughter Lourdes, .12
Soon after the split Madonna moved from London to New York and began dating 22-year-old Brazilian model Jesus Luz.
Ritchie is upfront in the interview about how painful the experience has been for him.
"You can't tell someone when they're getting divorced that their pain is an illusion," he says. "I'm ****ing telling you, I feel it, I've been through that. You have, too. No one can say you don't feel that."
The director also reminisces about the happy, more ordinary, times he and 'Madge' shared in his Mayfair pub The Punchbowl.
"Madonna, when she came in here, it was old-school London," he says.
"No one bothered her. 'Hello, darling. How are you, darling? What can we get you?' It was fundamental, old-school. It didn't matter who she was. She was my wife."
And despite his biting 'retarded' jibe, Ritchie admitted Madonna had her good points too.
"She's a manifester, if there ever was one," he says. "First-rate manifester. Madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any 23-year-old, she'll outwork them, outdance them, outperform them. The woman is broad."
When Madonna was asked recently by US talkshow host David Letterman whether she'd ever get married again, she quipped: "I think I'd rather get run over by a train".
She has also managed to get in a dig of her own since they split, telling the audience at an October 2008 concert, days after their divorce was announced, "This song is for the emotionally retarded. Maybe you know some people who fall in that category. I know I do."
Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour, which wrapped last month in Israel, smashed her own record for top-grossing tour by a solo artist, with $408 million from 85 concerts.
Ritchie, who made his name as a director with British gangster films including Snatch and Lock Stock 'n Two Smoking Barrels, returns to the box office in December with Sherlock Holmes, an adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle detective stories, with Robert Downey, Jr. in the lead role and Jude Law as trusty sidekick Doctor Watson.
"You can't tell someone when they're getting divorced that their pain is an illusion," he says. "I'm ****ing telling you, I feel it, I've been through that. You have, too. No one can say you don't feel that."
The director also reminisces about the happy, more ordinary, times he and 'Madge' shared in his Mayfair pub The Punchbowl.
"Madonna, when she came in here, it was old-school London," he says.
"No one bothered her. 'Hello, darling. How are you, darling? What can we get you?' It was fundamental, old-school. It didn't matter who she was. She was my wife."
And despite his biting 'retarded' jibe, Ritchie admitted Madonna had her good points too.
"She's a manifester, if there ever was one," he says. "First-rate manifester. Madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any 23-year-old, she'll outwork them, outdance them, outperform them. The woman is broad."
When Madonna was asked recently by US talkshow host David Letterman whether she'd ever get married again, she quipped: "I think I'd rather get run over by a train".
She has also managed to get in a dig of her own since they split, telling the audience at an October 2008 concert, days after their divorce was announced, "This song is for the emotionally retarded. Maybe you know some people who fall in that category. I know I do."
Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour, which wrapped last month in Israel, smashed her own record for top-grossing tour by a solo artist, with $408 million from 85 concerts.
Ritchie, who made his name as a director with British gangster films including Snatch and Lock Stock 'n Two Smoking Barrels, returns to the box office in December with Sherlock Holmes, an adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle detective stories, with Robert Downey, Jr. in the lead role and Jude Law as trusty sidekick Doctor Watson.
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