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Madonna Makes Rare Comment on "Painful" Guy Ritchie Custody Battle Over Son Rocco

Madonna said her spiritual practice of Kabbalah helped her cope with suicidal thoughts during the intense 2016 custody dispute over her son Rocco, which ended with a private settlement.

  • On Monday, Madonna, singer and seven-time Grammy winner, revealed on Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast that she contemplated suicide during her custody dispute.
  • Rocco leaving the Rebel Heart Tour sparked a transatlantic legal dispute after 15-year-old Rocco John Ritchie chose to stay in London with film director and ex-husband Guy Ritchie.
  • While touring, she recalled lying on the dressing room floor sobbing, calling it one of the most painful moments of her life during the custody battle.
  • A settlement allowed Rocco to stay in the UK, and Madonna says their relationship is repaired as they are now really good friends.
  • She has recently launched The Mystical Studies of the Zohar with Kabbalah teacher Eitan Yardeni, and the story includes crisis resources like Samaritans on 116 123 and the 988 lifeline.
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Madonna (Michigan, USA, 67) and Guy Ritchie (Hatfield, UK, 57) split up in 2008, but things between the singer and the director got much more ugly in 2016, when they ended up in the British courts, first, and New Yorkers, then, in the custody of the son they have in common, Rocco, who was then 15 years old. Now the pop queen has remembered in an episode of the podcast On Purpose, by British author Jay Shetter, which was one of the most difficult…

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