On the couch with Howard Stern. How did we end up here? (Rhetorical question) ??#rebelhearts

A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Mar 11, 2015 at 10:52pm PDT

Madonna did an interview with Howard Stern yesterday. I’ve only listened to parts of it, but I’m including the most complete audio I can find at the end of the post. It was a pretty typical Stern interview, which is to say… all-encompassing. No subject was taboo, not Catholicism, not her rape, not her marriages, not her ex-boyfriends. Some moments/highlights:

*She dated Tupac Shakur? She explained why she cursed so much during an interview with David Letterman: “I was mad at [David Letterman] when I said the F-word a lot. I was in a weird mood that day. I was dating Tupac Shakur at the time and the thing is he got me all riled up on life in general. So when I went on the show I was feeling very gangsta.”

*Madonna talked a bit about her relationship with Warren Beatty and how he was such a famous womanizer, but Madge said: “Yes, he was [an incredible lover]. I’m not going to lie… [but] I have confidence in my skills.”

*She also dated Jean-Michel Basquiat, but she dumped him because he was a heroin addict: “We always think we can fix people and we can’t…just change yourself.”

*Basquiat made her return all of the art he had given her: “I loved him. When I broke up with him he made me give them all back to him, and then he painted over all of them black.”

*She still “wished” that she could have gotten together with Antonio Banderas. She says Melanie Griffith didn’t leave his side when she and Antonio were filming Evita.

*Her thoughts on Michael Jackson: “I could certainly relate to him on many levels, but he was also a very shy person. He was famous since he was a child and didn’t really have a childhood. He was painfully shy. We didn’t really have a relationship about me revealing myself to him, but making fun of the crazy world we were living and working in. We didn’t talk about our childhoods…I think he felt eternally tortured. It was hard for him to look into people’s eyes.”

*Madge would “feel insecure sometimes” when Guy Ritchie directed other actresses: “I think I threw a tantrum once.”

*Her move to NYC when she was just a teenager: “I was in shock, I didn’t know a soul. I was saying, ‘Hi’ to people on the street like a dork.”

*Being raped at the age of 19: “I was going to a dance class and the door was locked and I needed money for the payphone. [This guy] gave it to me, he was a very friendly guy. I trusted everybody,” she went on, before explaining that the man in question persuaded her to make the phone call from his home, across the street. When she went with him, he raped her. Stern then asked the 56-year-old whether had reported the crime. Madonna replied that she had not. “You’ve already been violated,” she explained. “It’s just not worth it. It’s too much humiliation.”

Here’s the audio (beware: there is some NSFW language, but that’s it).

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