Ellen DeGeneres is celebrating #MadonnaWeek on her talk show — including having a candid interview with the Material Girl herself.
The “Living for Love” singer sat down with the talk show host on Tuesday’s episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” including revealing insights into her personal life.
The pop star opened up about how she’s coping since her eldest daughter Lourdes went away to college last fall, describing it as “an absolutely devastating experience.”
Lourdes, 18, attends the University of Michigan, her mother’s alma mater, and Madonna admitted that after her daughter left, “I fell into the deepest depression.”
“I’m always so happy when she calls me and she says, ‘Mommy I miss you,’ or ‘I need you to rub my head,’” she added. “I’m still needed.”
Madonna also revealed that Lourdes is dating a fellow student and that she met him when the two came home for a visit. She also said that she approved of her daughter’s beau, calling him “intelligent.”
As for her own dating life, the “Express Yourself” singer said that she didn’t understand why people made a fuss over her dating younger men.
“People just don’t like it when I have fun,” she said.
Madonna, who recently called Kanye West the “black Madonna” in an interview with the Daily News, told DeGeneres that working with the rapper was “wild.”
After the talk show host said she thinks that sometimes Kim Kardashian’s hubby needs to “zip it up,” the pop star defended him.
“I do think the entertainment business needs him. Because so many artists are so consumed with being politically correct all the time, and it’s really nice and refreshing, I think, to just hear people be honest, or even not honest, but just speak their mind.”
“I think people should go more crazy over me!” the star said.
“I don’t have a life outside of working and taking care of my children,” she added. “Honestly, I don’t really get a chance to go out and be bothered.”
When the star, who lives in New York, admitted she was disappointed by the lack of paparazzi attention while in Los Angeles, DeGeneres came up with a plan.
“Let’s go out to dinner one night and they’ll bother us,” she said.
“I think that would be fun,” Madonna said.
The pop icon also talked about her recent onstage fall at the Brit Awards, noting that she didn’t fall but was “yanked” down the stairs by her dancers, who had pulled on her Armani cape.
As for Giorgio Armani’s criticism that she had been “difficult” about the cape, she called it “total bulls–t!”
While the designer cape might be a sore subject, DeGeneres gave her one she might actually use, gifting the pop star a cape with the words “Definitely NOT Madonna” so she could visit her daughter undetected.
