Madonna was such a control freak, she even had rules for how her now-estranged husband, Guy Ritchie, was allowed to fight with her. New reports say that the couple had a contract, drafted with the help of a marriage counselor, which instructed Guy on how to communicate with his wife when he did something to upset her. Other rules included his obligation to spiritually enrich Madonna and to devote a certain amount of time to sex and Kabbalah instruction. Kinda takes all the joy and spontaneity right out of everything, doesn’t it?
Madonna tried to control husband Guy Ritchie with a marriage contract which urged the film director not to shout at his wife and to devote time to sex, it has emerged.
The alleged document detailed a list of rules for Guy drawn up after the couple attended counselling two years ago.
Guy was told he ‘must work to enrich his wife’s emotional and spiritual well-being’, ‘resolve conflicts in a constructive way’, and devote time to the couple’s ’sexual expressiveness’.
According to The Sun the document even had instructions on what words Guy should use during arguments, and he was told to ’state calmly: I understand that my actions have upset you, please work with me to resolve this.’
He was also expected to spend several hours reading Kabbalah texts with his estranged wife.
A source said Madonna had the contract pinned up in the couple’s New York home after they attended marriage counselling, and would reprimand Guy by saying ‘contract, contract’, if he broke the rules.
A source told The Sun: ‘Guy felt bound up like a kipper’.
[From The Daily Mail]
Good lord, that sounds like hell. While I agree that there should be some basic ground rules for couples when it comes to arguing or having a disagreement, this is taking it way too far. It also sounds like it was Guy who was making all the concessions and compromises to keep Madonna happy and not the other way around. No one can be happy in that kind of situation for long.
It’s also looking like the divorce could get uglier if the couple can’t come to an agreement on where their children will live and how they will be educated. In typical Madonna fashion, she wants it all her way- she wants full custody of the kids and plans to move them to the U.S. permanently, where they will be educated at a Kabbalah school. Guy, of course, isn’t happy about this.
The pair, whose split was made public two weeks ago, are feuding over where their children - Rocco, eight, and adopted David Banda, three - will live and be educated.
The pair, whose split was made public two weeks ago, are feuding over where their children - Rocco, eight, and adopted David Banda, three - will live and be educated.
Madonna, 50, wants the two boys to live with her and Lourdes, her 12-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, in New York. But Ritchie, 40, would prefer that the children go to school in London.
The singer’s biographer, J Randy Taraborrelli, told Hello! magazine the pair ‘are at loggerheads’.
He said: ‘There was a great deal of haggling about this matter last week, with Madonna upping the amount of Guy’s settlement to more than £20 million in hopes that he would acquiesce.’
He added that they are ‘not even speaking to each other. They communicate only through lawyers’.
Mr Taraborrelli also said a friend of Ritchie told him that the split could become more acrimonious
The source told him: ‘I do think it’s going to get nasty. He and Madonna are very angry now, no doubt about it, [but] they are willing to put that aside for their children.
‘But I do think that if one sees the other linked up with a new partner so soon, it will make everything a lot more complicated for everyone involved.’
It was also claimed today that the couple’s legal teams are seeking witness statements from business and house staff.
With all these contracts and rules of engagement, I’m surprised Madonna never had Guy sign an agreement on where the kids will live and how they’ll be schooled prior to the divorce. Maybe she just assumed he’d go along with it. At any rate, going head to head with Madge is not going to be a picnic. I don’t envy Guy at all.
Guy Ritchie is shown on the set of his Sherlock Holmes movie. Madonna, with her children Lourdes, Rocco and David, are leaving a Kabbalah center in NYC on Oct. 25. Photo credits: Bauergriffin.
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