Posted by Allison as Celebrity Babies, Celebrity Friends & Family, Conscience & Morality Tales at 9:28 AM EST
06/11/2006

Madonna has some more words for us regarding her adoption of 1-year-old Malawian David Banda. Basically Madonna says the media fueled the debate on the southeast African adoption and made the whole thing seem more important that it was. Here is Madonna now.
“But when you throw in things like I’m a celebrity and I somehow got special treatment, or make the implication of kidnapping, it gets mixed into a stew, and it sells lots of papers,” Madonna told Time magazine.
“What they should care about is that there are over a million orphans in Malawi,” she went on to say.
“There’s a lot of Brits — reporters on the street — who’ve said ‘Why don’t you adopt a kid from Britain?’ Or ‘Why did you adopt a black child?”‘ the queen of pop stated.
Madonna revealed to Time that she has not worked harder for anything in her life than the adoption of David Banda. So that’s why her tours are sucking lately…
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