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Thursday, November 14, 2013
by Liz Smith
“MOST PEOPLE thought I was strange. I didn’t have many friends. I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren’t popular, and you don’t have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future. And for me, that was going to New York to become a real artist ... to revel and shimmy and shake and be surrounded by daring people.”
![]() | ![]() | | The Big M on the cover of HB. | ![]() | | "... I decided I needed to be more than a girl with gold teeth and gangster boyfriends.” | ![]() |
So says Madonna in the current issue of Harper’s Bazaar. (I bet some of you thought it was Lady Gaga!)
I’ve had the magazine sitting on my desk for more than a week, with a gorgeous-looking M on the cover, staring me down. (“You will pick up this magazine” her eyes seemed to command.)
For some reason, I didn’t delve into the article. Maybe it was because such an issue was made of her — I now realize — throwaway remark that she had been raped during her tough early years in Manhattan. I knew she’d alluded to this a long time ago, and thought, “Why bring it up again?” But that terrible memory is hardly the essence of the article, written by Madonna herself.
There’s no BS here. The star writes that at some point after her divorce from Sean Penn, she found herself “looking for love in all the wrong places ... I decided I needed to be more than a girl with gold teeth and gangster boyfriends.” She credits her immersion in Kabbalah for preparing her for motherhood; something she very much wanted, but for which she felt unfit.
And she is heartbreakingly candid on the controversy surrounding the adoption of two children, especially the first one, David.“A real low point in my life. I could get my head around people giving me a hard time for simulating masturbation onstage or publishing the ‘Sex’ book or even kissing Britney Spears at an awards show ... but trying to save a child’s life was not something I thought I would be punished for.”
(When Madonna appeared on Oprah, to discuss this controversy, as it unfolded, I felt, watching her, that she was just barely holding it together; unusual because M keeps her emotions close. I was right. I heard that moments after the interview was over and the cameras stopped, Madonna broke down hysterically.)
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