Madonna Says She Felt ‘Raped’ by New York Times Profile
Madonna posted a lengthy message on Instagram, slamming the article and writer. She said she spent “hours and months” with the journalist, only to find out she “chose to focus on trivial and superficial matters” such as comments about her age which wouldn’t have been mentioned if she was a man. Madonna even went as far as claiming the publication “is one of the founding fathers of the Patriarchy.”
“To say that I was disappointed in the article would be an understatement—It seems you can’t fix society and its endless need to diminish, disparage or degrade that which they know is good. Especially strong independent women,” Madonna wrote. “I’m sorry I spent 5 minutes with her. It makes me feel raped.”
“And yes I’m allowed to use that analogy having been raped at the age of 19,” she said.
Read her full statement, below:
She wrote that Grigoriadis spent months with her and had access “into a world which many people don’t get to see.” But after the feature was published, Madonna concluded, “I’m sorry I spent 5 minutes with her. “
“To say that I was disappointed in the article would be an understatement,” Madonna wrote. She took umbrage with the author’s focus on “trivial and superficial matter such as the ethnicity of my stand-in or the fabric of my curtains and never ending comments about my age which would never have been mentioned had I been a MAN!”
Grigoriadis frequently mentions the difficulties she perceives Madonna having to navigate as a pop star as she gets older, writing of watching her rehearse for a Billboard Awards number and noting, “The sex bomb at 60 was slightly less than bionic…”. At another point, she writes, “I realized I couldn’t ask her about anything as personal as menopause, but I had to broach the topic of aging.”
The writer expresses dissatisfaction with Madonna’s level of vulnerability, as well, writing that even though she tried to relate to her as a fellow older mother, “She was like a cactus with spikes protecting her from anyone getting too close, particularly journalists. … I didn’t feel I was hearing enough of her real thoughts about her real life.”
“Women have a really hard time being the champions of other women even if they are posing as intellectual feminists,” Madonna wrote.
In her NYT interview, Madonna opened up about working with Harvey Weinstein, recalling the times he “crossed lines and boundaries and was incredibly sexually flirtatious and forward with me when we were working together.” “He was married at the time, and I certainly wasn’t interested,” she added.
“I was aware that he did the same with a lot of other women that I knew in the business,” she continued. “And we were all, ‘Harvey gets to do that because he’s got so much power and he’s so successful and his movies do so well and everybody wants to work with him, so you have to put up with it.’ So that was it.”
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