OPRAH PREVIEW

Here’s a preview of what you’ll hear on the Oprah Winfrey Show

The Kiss
Oprah: Was [kissing Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards] planned, or spontaneous?
Madonna: It was meant to be a playful, ironic comment on the bride and groom kissing. I had two brides (Britney and Christina Aguillera), and I was going to kiss both of my brides. In all of the rehearsals, it was very [innocent]. If Britney looks like she was kissing me in an aggressive manner, it was a surprise to me! I’m a showgirl, and after 20 years in show business, we learn to roll with the punches. You get a lemon, you make lemonade; if someone comes at you with their lips slightly parted, you have to kiss them! It was totally meant in innocence and fun, and I don’t know why people are making such a big deal out of it.

Her Immaterial World
Oprah: Are you still the ‘Material Girl?’
Madonna: I’m so not the material girl. There were many years in my life where I thought fame, fortune and public approval would bring me happiness. After I made Evita, I won a Golden Globe, and I was about to have a baby. I felt like I had everything, but something was missing?an understanding of who I really was. ? Up until that point, I felt I was controlled by the ups and downs in my life.
Oprah: Was there something in particular that happened for you to change?
Madonna: The biggest thing was probably that I was about to become a parent. I wanted to understand what I was going to teach my daughter. I didn’t really understand where I stood on things. I think that was my wake-up call. I wanted to understand how I was going to go about finding true and lasting happiness in my life and how I was going to teach that to my daughter.
Mommy Madonna
Oprah: Do you think so far you’ve been able to present Lourdes with a normal childhood?
Madonna: Yeah, I do, as normal as it could be. When we get home and the doors are closed, we don’t play up the idea that there are celebrities living in the house. We don’t talk about fame, we don’t have magazines in the house and we don’t watch television. We’re cut off from that. ? She knows I sing and dance for a living. She’s been to a million photo shoots, and knows that’s Mom’s work.

Lessons Learned
Oprah: What do you think now when you look back at some of those years?all the girls who were imitating you and wanted the illusion of what you had?
Madonna: I think, “wow, I had a huge desire to receive.” I had big dreams, I was ambitious, courageous and provocative, but I didn’t have the whole picture of life. But I did the best that I could with the knowledge that I had.
Oprah: And when you know better, you do better.
Madonna: Exactly.
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