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On Oct. 12, Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, were granted temporary custody of a 13-month-old Malawian orphan named David Banda. This sparked a storm of accusations, ranging from the criminal — that Madonna used her fame to bypass adoption procedures — to the scathing: that Madonna is a dilettante, treating an African child as this season's must-have accessory. The legal issue has been laid to rest — no laws were violated — but Madonna still had plenty to get off her chest in a rare print interview with TIME's Josh Tyrangiel.

Why do you think people are so upset by the fact that you adopted a Malawian child?

People or the media? Because I don't think people really give a shit. 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. But care? People don't care, and the media certainly doesn't care. What they should care about is that there are over a million orphans in Malawi, and following me around is just a gross misappropriation of attention and money. But I do think there's a certain amount of nationalism and racism thrown in there. I mean, 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?" So a lot of people's hangups and 'isms' are sort of mixed into this, too. It's just kind of a cocktail for disaster in terms of media perception.

One of the 'isms' that you're frequently accused of is dilletantism. You're new to Africa and these issues and there's a perception that you're jumping on a bandwagon, and bringing a child into it, too.

Well, that's not my problem. I don't care. I could know about the situation for two weeks and want to do something about it or I could know about it for years and deliberate on a plan of action. Which is better? That I found out about an issue and instantly wanted to take action, or that it took me years to get my shit together? Look, I could have joined the U.N. and become an ambassador and visited various countries and just kind of showed up and smiled and looked concerned. But that's not getting to the root of the problem — and by the way, neither is building orphan care centers and giving people food and medicine. But it's a start. I'm saving people's lives. And whether I have earned the right to do it, or the respect of people who think I may not have the right to do it, is completely and utterly irrelevant. And in any event, no, I'm not interested in going in there like a dilettante and being an idiot and going 'OK, I'm going to build 10 orphanages and I'll see you guys later!'

So this is a lifetime commitment?

Absolutely. I'm starting with Malawi. It's a small, peaceful country, so I feel like it's a safe place to start. And if it works, I'll expand. But it is the beginning and I know I'm going to get a lot of criticism and take a lot of shit for it, and it's kind of like, Go ahead, haze me, have a laugh, and come back and talk to me in five years.

You've been through other hazing periods in your career. Is this one different than...

Yeah, because a life is at stake. And in all those other hazing periods people were just trying to fuck with me. Now they're going into a village and terrorizing innocent people who live simple lives, terrorizing the father, terrorizing the children that I already have. There are a lot of people who are indirectly being effected by it. That's the difference.

You met Mr. Banda once, in a courtroom. What did you say to him?

Obviously when you're sitting across from the father it's really heart-wrenching. He was looking down at the ground all the time and I felt so bad for him. I said, "I feel for you and I want what's best for David. So if you want him, I don't want to take your son from you. I just want to save his life. I can't live in Malawi. I can't move my family here. He would have to come and live with me and I would raise him as a son. But there's another option. I can just give you money, and you can raise him." And he said no. But he still had a very hangdog expression, which crushed me. It was very confusing, and I'm sure he was very confused. Look, his wife dies, his other three children die, the guy's been grieving and been through hell. He gives his last son to an orphanage at the age of two weeks... to a certain extent he was ready to move on with his life. Then suddenly I show up and someone from the village says "Hey, this white woman"—he didn't know who I was—"wants to adopt your child!" And once the press got involved everyone said, Oh God, now we better cross our t's and dot our i's to make sure we actually aren't jumping queues, because we're going to be scrutinized. So the process became extremely tedious and the court dates kept changing and we kept getting conflicting information. It became so difficult that every day I thought, "OK, forget it. We'll find a family here to look after him." Meanwhile I had been given permission to take him to my hotel because I had to take him to a clinic to get chest x-rays and a proper medical examination to see why he wasn't breathing properly. And I just keep thinking, "Oh God, I don't want to get too attached because what if it doesn't happen?" It was all very strange and weird, and I'd go to bed every night and think OK, whether someone else ends up looking after him or you end up looking after him, he's better off now than he was. But it was one fucking thing after the next, everywhere we went. So the idea that people think I got a shortcut or an easy ride is absolutely ludicrous. I have never worked so hard for anything in my life, and I've never been given such a hard time. And my celebrity has worked against me in every way... And by the way, say I did cut the queue? Say I did cheat and not have to wait two years to adopt a child? Well, good for me! Do you know how many children are going to die in the next two years? It's a stupid law. Change the law.

Do you worry at all that you've saved this child from physical misery...

From death. Death. He would not have lived.

Kirsty Wark writes up her thoughts from somewhere over the Atlantic, while en route to interview Madonna for BBC Newsnight...

I left home in Glasgow at 4.45 this morning to begin the journey to New York for the only British interview with Madonna. Have celebrity and money enabled Madonna to bend the rules?

It's slightly bizarre, but by the time you read this, I'll be back from America and the first broadcast of the interview will have appeared on Wednesday's Newsnight.

Madonna agreed to be interviewed only at the last minute, though the request goes back several months, sent to her, unbeknownst to us, probably just as she had seen David Banda, the boy she's adopting, on some film footage shot in Malawi.

SHORT SHRIFF
We were preparing for a new series of interviews for BBC Four, looking for six women whose work and artistry have made a cultural impact, partly through the media.

My producer Natalie Schaverien wrote to Madonna's office at the end of July, having heard she was going to Malawi, to work with her charity, Raising Malawi, which is building an orphanage.

We asked if we could film with her there for a few days. We got short shrift. We moved on and interviewed Janine di Giovanni, the war correspondent and writer, Alison Jackson, the photographer and filmmaker, who creates lookalikes, and the artist Tracey Emin, who will represent Britain at the Venice Biennale.

MEDIA STORM
But a few days ago, all hell broke loose when the press got hold of the story that Madonna had adopted a little boy, David Banda, allegedly fast-tracking the operation. The inference was that her celebrity and her money had allowed her to bend the rules.

Natalie had the presence of mind to fire off an e-mail the day David Banda was brought by Madonna's nanny to London and into a media storm.

Ten days later Madonna's PR phoned and said she would speak to me in New York.

We're recording a long interview, some of which will air on Newsnight and there will be a half hour programme on Sunday November 12th at 9pm on BBC Four.

ICON
So where will I start? It has to be with the adoption, but I want to make the interview far-reaching.

Love her or loathe her you cannot underestimate the impact she has had on music, or her iconic status.

I did my homework, helped in part by my 14 year-old son James, who I sometimes think knows Madge better than she knows herself.
Madonna has promised to learn the local dialect - is her husband going to follow suit?

Her office sent me a DVD of the film she made of her last tour I Want To Tell You a Secret, but I'll tell you a secret - I've seen it about 20 times, whether I wanted to or not.

James also guided me to various fan and gossip websites. It would be fair to say that before this furore, Malawi was not on everyone's Africa radar.

A country, ravaged by AIDS and TB, where of the 12 million strong population, there are reckoned to be up to a million orphans.

I know something about it because Scotland has had a long connection with Malawi, stretching back to the work of the Scottish missionary David Livingstone, and right now many Scottish schoolchildren are involved in projects there in schools and villages.

Also, the Scottish entrepreneur and millionaire Tom Hunter has joined forces with Bill Clinton, putting a hundred million dollars into the country to develop the economy and infrastructure over the next decade.

Bending the rules?
But why did Madonna adopt this child? Critics say she should have supported the birth father and his son in the country.

But someone I spoke to recently, who knows Malawi well, told me the culture is such that a father would not raise a child on his own.

Did Madonna bend the rules? Or did the authorities bend the rules for her? I'm going to ask her to respond to one woman, Joyce Dean, a teaching assistant in York, originally from Aberdeenshire.

In an article she applauded Madonna's action, but is upset that it hasn't happened that way for her. She has been waiting for two years to bring an 11 year-old orphan, Caroline, to Britain and there are probably others in the same situation.

Does Madonna realise how difficult it is for people with neither celebrity nor money?

Also I'm interested to know what Madonna would have done had David Banda tested positive for HIV. It would have been a huge dilemma. And Madonna has promised to learn the local dialect. Is her husband going to follow suit?

Beyond that, I want to find out what she's up to next. I hear talk that she's optioned a book and is planning to turn it into a film which she will direct.

What will Guy Ritchie make of that? Is there a danger she might upstage him once too often?

Newsnight: Wednesday 1 November, 10.30pm on BBC TWO and ONLINE
Madonna Talks to Kirsty Wark: Sunday 12th November, 9pm BBC Four.

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