In addition to serious issues like rape and her mom’s death, she also announces that her next single will be “Ghosttown,” for which she’s shooting a video next week.
Did you know Madonna wrote “Vogue” in just a couple of hours? Or that she doesn’t like being stoned? Or that she dated Tupac Shakur? (We really didn’t know that one.)
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Well, she revealed that and much, much more in a nearly 90-minute interview with Howard Stern on Wednesday (March 11) — her first interview ever with the radio personality. The chat covered a lot of ground, from her childhood and the early death of her mother to the time she was raped but didn’t report it and her odd friendship with Michael Jackson.
“I could certainly relate to him on many levels, but he was also a very shy person,” she said of Jackson. “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.”
Listen to the full interview here: