Madonna talks of 1st vacation with David
In a hurried interview Thursday with Meredith Vieira on “Today,” Madonna talked of her first family vacation with David, the toddler child she’s trying to adopt from Malawi.
The singer, who arrived late for the morning interview that was scheduled to promote her new animated film, “Arthur and the Invisibles,” rushed from a limo into Rockefeller Center studios for the interview and joked about the early hour, “I don’t like getting up and talking to people this early.”
She told Vieira that the family went on their first holiday together the over Christmas holidays – though she wouldn’t say where, just that it was somewhere “very hot.”
“We all got to run around in bare feet and ride bikes in our bare feet, and it was lovely,” she said.
She said her children, Lourdes and Rocco, have become great babysitters. “Both of the kids are really great with him,” she said. She later told Vieira that she misses New York and keeps telling her husband, Guy Ritchie, that she wants to move back here. The family currently resides in London.
Madonna, a good friend of Rosie O’Donnell, gave her two cents in the “View” host’s feud with Donald Trump. She said she heard about it when she was in the Indian Ocean and dropped O’Donnell and e-mail.
“I had to hear it from the horse’s mouth,” she said. “And basically, I mean, she’s a stand-up comic, I think all stand-up comics talk about provocative things in their monologues before shows. And I think that’s a commonplace thing. I don’t know exactly the content of what she said. But I have a feeling that if every stand-up comic was penalized for saying politically incorrect things or provocative things, I think they’d all be hung in the public square. So if people are giving Rosie a hard time, I wish they’d stop. I don’t think it’s fair.”
Madonna says that she too has gotten in trouble for things she’s said. “I did say the f-word a few times … (but) I don’t swear anymore, I have children,” she told Vieira. “You get penalized for saying bad words in our house. So I’m actually the person that has to pay the most amount of fines. It’s actually 5 pounds, which is 10 bucks.”
She added that she’s shelled out thousands of bucks on account of the house rule. “Yeah. My mouth is quite expensive,” she joked.
Madonna also talked about her new film on “Live With Regis and Kelly” and will continue to promote it on Thursday as the host of two screenings at two New York City schools.
From CBS News.