Madonna Talks Of 1st Vacation With David
In a hurried interview Thursday with Meredith Vieira on "Today," Madonna talked of her first family vacation with David, the child she's trying to adopt from Malawi.
The singer, who arrived late for a morning interview that was scheduled to promote her animated film, "Arthur and the Invisibles," rushed from a limo to Rockefeller Center studios and joked about being tardy: "I don't like getting up and talking to people this early."
She told Vieira that the family went on their first vacation together over the holidays — though she wouldn't say where, just that it was somewhere "very hot."
"We all got to run around in bare feet and ride bikes in our bare feet, and it was lovely," she said.Photos: Madonna In Malawi
She said her children, Lourdes and Rocco, have become great babysitters. "Both of the kids are really great with him," she said. She later told Vieira that she misses New York and keeps telling her husband, director Guy Ritchie, that she wants to move back there. The family currently resides in London.
Madonna, a good friend of Rosie O'Donnell, offered her two cents in the "View" host's feud with Donald Trump. She said she heard about it when she was in the Indian Ocean and dropped O'Donnell an e-mail.
"I had to hear it from the horse's mouth," she said. "And, basically, I mean, she's a stand-up comic. I think all stand-up comics talk about provocative things in their monologues before shows. And I think that's a commonplace thing. I don't know exactly the content of what she said. But I have a feeling that if every stand-up comic was penalized for saying politically incorrect things or provocative things, I think they'd all be hung in the public square. So if people are giving Rosie a hard time, I wish they'd stop. I don't think it's fair."
"I did say the f-word a few times … (but) I don't swear anymore, I have children," she told Vieira. "You get penalized for saying bad words in our house. So I'm actually the person that has to pay the most amount of fines. It's actually 5 pounds, which is 10 bucks."
She added that she's shelled out thousands of dollars because of the house rule. "Yeah, my mouth is quite expensive," she joked.
Madonna also talked about her new film on "Live With Regis and Kelly" and will continue to promote it Thursday as the host of two screenings at two New York City schools.