Madonna + David Banda + adoption battle
‘It was painful and a big struggle and I didn’t understand it,’ she admits.
‘In the end I rationalised that when a woman goes through natural childbirth, she suffers an enormous amount.
‘I went through my own kind of birthing pains — dealing with the press on my doorstep, accusing me of kidnapping or whatever.
'But I had to go through some kind of process and in the end it made me stronger so I can’t complain.'
Madge, 49, explained how she felt at a Cannes press conference for I Am Because We Are, a documentary about the plight of orphaned children in Malawi.
