Guy Ritchie: Madonna is "Retarded"

Celebrity News October 7, 2009 AT 1:18PM
Guy Ritchie: Madonna is "Retarded" Credit: Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage.com

Guy Ritchie has mixed feelings about his ex-wife Madonna.

"I still love her," he says in the November issue of Esquire. "But she's retarded, too.

Ritchie, 41, split from Madonna, 51, last December after eight years of marriage (they share custody of their sons Rocco, 9, and David Banda, 4), but he still seems impressed by the pop icon.

"She's a manifester, if there ever was one," he says. "First-rate manifester. Madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any 23-year-old, she'll outwork them, outdance them, outperform them. The woman is broad."

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Ritchie is still reeling from their split.

"You can't tell someone when they're getting divorced that their pain is an illusion," he says. ""I'm f***ing telling you, I feel it. I've been through that... No one can say you don't feel that."

Madonna -- who is now dating 23-year-old Brazilian model Jesus Luz -- has also been hurt.

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Asked on the Late Show Sept. 30 if she'd ever wed again, she replied, "I think I'd rather get run over by a train."

She also referred to her marriage to director Guy Ritchie as "the Bush years."

Sniped the singer, "It was a good time to be out of America."

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  • March 12, 2010 - 12:47pm relax

    Madonna is many things but mentally challenged is NOT one of them, (fact) Being blessed with a good but not spectacular voice (opinion) she made herself into a superstar by using what she has, unique looks and a good figure and a talent for displaying them. She is probably VERY intelligent. I am not in agreement with her politics, but I respect her as a person and entertainer. Mentally challenged are all the women displaying themselves for free on the internet... getting rich for it...that takes brains. Lady Gaga is a chip off the same block. I don't much like her music but I suspect she knows what she is doing.

  • October 09, 2009 - 3:43am Mom of Three

    I don't think Guy should have insulted the retarded like that. They're far more tolerable than Madonna.

  • October 08, 2009 - 2:55pm GO MADONNA

    I bet all you rude nasty people on here making hateful comments about her actually have her cd's and grew up on her music. You're nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. Madonna was born here, she doesn't need fellow AMERICAN'S trashing her. She deserves all the fame and glory she gets, she worked hard for it and I for one love her and her music and I will continue to support her. Go complain on Guy's site, he's the one with the incorrect use of the word.

  • October 08, 2009 - 1:54pm Anonymous

    Please Madonna, stay out of America. We have enough trash here.

  • October 08, 2009 - 1:14pm Anonymous

    To make it even more clear because the last I checked Brittain was in Europe....Correct or am I missing a marble or two??? I mean he is British, meaning he is from Brittain, Brittain is in Europe, which Europe is on the planet Earth?? So I believe he meets the definition of being European. lmao

  • October 08, 2009 - 9:45am Ihaveaglobe

    TO: October 07, 2009 - 7:12pm Anonymous Says: October 07, 2009 - 4:31pm sickofhaters Says: furthermore, can you blame her for not wanting to live in the states? you don't see immigrants getting into Europe and living off them do you? ___________________________________________________ Do you actually ever read the European news??? Europe is FULL of immigrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. as a result of US wars who are living off the state. and October 07, 2009 - 8:26pm Anonymous Says: Guy Ritchie is British not European. __________________________________________ HISTORY LESSON PEOPLE: ALL those places ARE in EUROPE... You guys are what make the rest of the world hate us. Go back to school! People like you run around acting like you know what you are talking about and clearly you don't even know 3rd grade geography. DOH!

  • October 08, 2009 - 2:25am linda

    wow now that explains everything in how he treated her...and confirms modonna was telling the truth about he ex.he really a peice of work.it's good she got out while she still looks good

  • October 08, 2009 - 1:21am Anonymous

    Madonna didn't insult America, she insulted bush. Bush was a terrible president, so she is right about that much.

  • October 07, 2009 - 9:57pm Anonymous

    He is exactly right. I always thought she was retarded too.

  • October 07, 2009 - 8:26pm Anonymous

    Guy Ritchie is British not European.

  • October 07, 2009 - 7:34pm Anonymous

    Mad donna needs to get her old, skanky and boney butt into retirement. She's not relevent anymore. She's just another angry, bitter liberal who talks about how much she hates anyone who doesn't think like her. (So much for the libby "tollerance" schpleel) I'm so suck of her. I'd say she's old and worn out, but that skank was worn out in her "like a virgin" days.

  • October 07, 2009 - 7:32pm staci

    i don't care for either of these creatures. at least they're not as disgusting as the that jon and kate groslin. yuk!

  • October 07, 2009 - 7:12pm Anonymous

    October 07, 2009 - 4:31pm sickofhaters Says: furthermore, can you blame her for not wanting to live in the states? you don't see immigrants getting into Europe and living off them do you? ___________________________________________________ Do you actually ever read the European news??? Europe is FULL of immigrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. as a result of US wars who are living off the state.

  • October 07, 2009 - 7:05pm The Thinker

    Billiant come back on Guy Ritchie's part considering that Madonna called him "emotionally retarded" a few months ago, right after the split, during a performance. I don't think he has much depth as a thinker, obviously, since he could only mock HER criticism rather than think of something unique and all his own. I can kind of see why she left him. Intellect feeds off intellect, and a lack of intellect on one spouses part can certainly starve the other into looking for it elsewhere. He seems pretty slow so I am surprised she stayed with him as long as she did. Plus, she has always had a thing for Latino men and Ritchie is anything but. LoL!

  • October 07, 2009 - 6:21pm Fugly House Wife

    All of you Madonna bashers need to get a life and actually learn something.

  • October 07, 2009 - 6:19pm House Wife

    What are you guys? Home-schooled? If you're all so righteous, what are you doing reading US?

  • October 07, 2009 - 6:09pm adora

    does he even know what that means? or does he just think "retarded" means "exhausting". it truly sounds as though he is confusing it with another word.

  • October 07, 2009 - 5:17pm EVERSON

    Guy's very rude comment about retardation and Madonna's anti American issues really makes them the perfect couple. Neither has any respect or kindness for anyone else, they truly deserve each other!

  • October 07, 2009 - 5:12pm Anonymous

    well her first love Sean Penn is available so maybe they will return back to one another

  • October 07, 2009 - 4:50pm WHAM

    here's wishing MADonna would leave America......FOR GOOD!!!

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